Obamacare Follies and the Republican Playbook

The Obamacare role out was a flub, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Why the administration didn't include a PPACA kiosk in every Social Security Administration office and field banks of 24-hour phone operators throughout the Nation is a mystery to me.

What should not come as a surprise to anyone the least bit familiar with the GOP is the disingenuous despicable evil sabotage and subterfuge Eric Cantor and his party were planning because the Republicans had a playbook designed to sow discontent and anger at the PPACA.

These are the same people who decried fluoridation of water as a "commie plot". These are the same people who originated Truther Movements in the 1940's by claiming FDR knew the Japanese were on the way to bomb Pearl Harbor. These are the same people who distributed JFK: Wanted for Treason fliers in Texas just prior to his assassination.

Republicans hate the Poor, hate Government and hate everything and anything which takes away from their ability to oppress and harm Working Class Americans.

This is what we're faced with; an intransigent Party which will never argue in good faith, will never propose any government based solution, and will do everything in their considerable power to harm the Nation in service to their Moneyed Masters.

So, once the Republican Government Shutdown ended and the Obamacare Website snafus became the focus; our Elite Media reporters, bloggers and newspaper opinion pages dutifully covered Republican drones all repeating the same message from their disingenuous propaganda 'Obamacare failure... Obamacare failure... Obamacare failure... Num Num Num...' and focused on Poor Little Rich Girl sob stories about the troubles the Rich and "Low Affluent" are having with the PPACA, instead of Republican Sabotage or pointing out that Republicans have No Alternative, except if You are Poor Die Quickly."We've got to a point, where money is so powerful a force in politics and in the media that attention is paid, mostly, to people who are wealthy; upper middle class, that define what the politicians are looking at and concerned about and what the media are covering. I wish that were not the case but, in fact, as a political reality that is the case." - Robert Reich on Moyers & Company, 09/20/13

Dylan Ratigan, a multi-millionaire with a 30,000 square-foot hydroponic farm called "Archi's Acres" bemoaned that his catastrophic insurance coverage was going up $4000-a-year. Dylan is rich enough to not need regular healthcare coverage because he can just pay out of pocket. Why can't those poor moochers do the same???

Lori Gottlieb, "Obamacare or Kafkacare?" Unless you've become a Giant Dung Beetle, Lori, this is a lame comparison. But, do go on Lori and "Dare to Complain about Obamacare"

“The nation has been better off,” wrote one friend. “Over 33 million people who did not have insurance are now going to get it.” That’s all fine and good for “the nation,” but what about my $5,400 rate hike (after-tax dollars, I wanted to add, but dared not in this group of previously closeted Mother Teresas)? Another friend wrote, “Yes, I’m paying an extra 200 a month, but I’m okay with doing that so that others who need it can have health care.”

But, what about ME??????? Lori Gottlieb, in 2000, pouted when Six-Figures adds up to Zero, that when she reached an undisclosed six-figure salary in her late 20's and moved to Silicon Valley she was hurt and frustrated because she realized she wasn't wealthy and "could see the wealth all around me -- wealth that I most certainly didn't have." Won't someone please think of the poor put upon Rich Woman?

John Boehner, a chain-smoking, full on progressed cirrhosis individual staged a Obamacare Sign-up stunt which backfired upon him,

As it turns out, his willingness to “keep trying” was a good idea. Boehner, who is not yet eligible for Medicare, “called the DC Health Link help line,” and a “few hours later,” the process was complete. He’d signed up for health insurance.

Nicole L. Hopkins mother, to her shame can now receive medicaid through Obamacare, since she was "Unable to secure employer-sponsored health care," and had to settle for "$276 a month for bare-bones catastrophic coverage."

"How has it come to this?" she asked in one of our several talks over the past few weeks about what was happening. When she was a working mother and I was young, she easily carried health insurance for our whole family. "How have I fallen this far?"

How has it come to this? Because to Republicans if You're not Wealthy You don't get to be Healthy. 

Health care costs are 17-18% of GDP and rising. 20 years ago when costs were 10-12% people in the Medical Profession were alarmed. The proper time to act passed long ago, because while (((America))) is a Center-Left Nation there is a hard nut of Ultra-Reactionaries to whom no Republican is ever conservative enough. To these rabid fanatics Grover Norquist and Mitch McConnell are "squishes" who believe in policies of appeasement.

All of the firebaggers blaming President Obama for not getting Single-Payer, a proven system which has worked in multiple Nations and was recently adopted in the State of Vermont, seem to ignore the fact that a motivated and despicable section of our Nation would never approve and was directly responsible for Single-Payers doom. The United States was never going to get a National Healthcare System, ala Canada or Europe because powerful forces don't want it.

Power and Money concede nothing.

Update:
A reason Republicans loathe Obamacare is because it undermines their key 35 year running Talking Point, i.e. the Ronnie Reagan "Government is the problem," lie.

From The Impolitic, Why Mitch McConnell really hates Obamacare

Meanwhile, it will be too late for McConnell either way. He's led the vanguard against health care for his own constituents, so the newly covered rubes who once believed the lies won't vote for him now and the angry cons who won't ever sign up because, Dimmocrats invented it, won't vote for him because he signed off on a compromise or two. He's pretty well screwed.

Government isn't the problem, Republicans in Government is the Problem.

Let's keep this a secret from the U.S. corporate media, but, as Sy Mukherjee and Andrew Breiner note at ThinkProgress...

On Wednesday, the new head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a bombshell report finding that U.S. health care spending since 2010 has increased by just 1.3 percent - the smallest cost growth over a three-year period in American history - while prices in the health care sector rose by 50-year lows, thanks in part to structural changes made by the Affordable Care Act. But most media outlets ignored that story, instead choosing to focus on ongoing glitches with the Healthcare.gov website.

Excellent Republican alternatives to Obamacare

The Republican Alternative to Obamacare

The Republicans have two different approaches for you, the Average American, to try instead

of Obamacare.

First, you should Understand: If You Were Wealthy, You'd Be Healthy.
Second, if you're Poor: Don't Get Sick but if You do, Die Quickly.

Mitt Romney summed up the Republican view on healthcare for the Poor, Working Class and Middle Class;

"And so my job is not to worry about those people- I'll never convince them to take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

If you've got no money you are on your own honey. The Republicans have a message to you America; Their Government will never help you. Because they get too much money from the Koch Brothers and the Plutocracy to purposefully hurt and oppress the Working Class.

The Koch Brothers are spending millions of dollars in various states to sabotage Obamacare because it;s good business for them to make sure 40 million Americans are held without coverage and 250 million others are left worried about losing their jobs and healthcare coverage or getting a catastrophic injury which drains their entire life savings. Meanwhile, the Koch Brothers through their Corporate Colossus are poised to reap $100 Billion from the Keystone XL pipeline. If you were rich like the virtuous Koch Brothers you wouldn't have to worry about needing subsidies for healthcare because you got sick from drinking the water supply poisoned by oil spills.

By now, most of the on-line community has read Eric Stern's piece at Salon where he fact-checked the 6 people paraded out for Sean Hannity's Obamacare Horror Stories. Surprise! It turned out Hannity's "reporting" was totally false but, Faux News had no problem trotting out their bullshit in order to advance the interests of the Rich and to harm poor people.

"Do you hate Obamacare more than you love your country?"

Thomas Roberts of MSNBC poised this salient question to Republican Marsha Blackburn. Not only does Blackburn and the Right hate Obamacare more than they love their country; they hate President Obama more than anything in the universe.

Larry Kudlow had a discussion panel where his chyron read Free Market solutions to Healthcare coverage. But, we've seen Free Market solutions applied to Healthcare; no coverage for pre-existing conditions, maximum expenditures, bureaucratic overheard siphoning money away from patients and their care to administrators, denying coverage by swamping people with them with paperwork and endless denials, and bankruptcy from catastrophic illness and injury; all designed to limit the amount of healthcare services provided to people while extracting as much money from them as possible.

Kudlow, along with Reince Priebus, Fucker Carlson, Mike Huckabee, Hannity and various other right-wingers have done an exceptional job of conflating the failures of Healthcare.gov website with the actual ideas of the ACA (i.e. Obamacare).

And why not? What's one more lie from conservatives? The souls of people who would let just someone die because they don't have insurance can't get any blacker.

How to "Save" the Republican Party

Step 1) Get President Obama to make Real and Substantial cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Step 2) Triumphantly tell Wall Street Thieves they got the cuts they've always wanted while crying to the MSM they never wanted to cut Social Security or Medicare.

Step 3) Roll Social Security into Wall Street were the Trillions will be clipped, stolen and find its' way into a few thousand Cayman Island and Swiss Bank Accounts

Step 4) Run ads in every campaign for every office for the next 100 years that President Obama and the Democrat Party cut Social Security.

I don't care about the Republican Party except for the best ways to combat their evil actions and fascist goals. Right now, we have a chance to treat the Republicans the way conservatives want to treat poor people and the uninsured and "Let 'em Die!"

Sure, we might need functioning Parties in America, but what we need are political groups who represent American Values. And American Values are Center-Left, fiscally conservative, socially liberal and progressive in their make-up.

The Modern Republican Party is an Ultra-Reactionary cabal of Religious Zealotry, Gun Nuttery, Rank Bigotry, Vicious Inhumanity and Base Hypocrisy funded by Vulture Capitalists.

Remember George W(orst President Ever) Bush only started losing Public Support when he embarked on the Campaign to Steal Social Security. His favorability ratings began dropping with conservatives in 2005 after W declared he was going "to expend his political capital" and privatize* Social Security. Bush had been disliked by Liberals when he ignored the August 6th memo Bin Laden determined to Strike in US, when he lied American into War in Iraq over falsified connections to Al Qaeda and phony WMDs and when he approved Torturing people, but conservatives didn't mind any of that.

Since, then the American People have overwhelmingly rejected the politics of Republicans and their goals of Austerity, except for the infamous 2010 elections when the Plutocracy made a desperate Battle of the Bulge style lunge and inflicted the Faux populist Tea Party fanatics upon the Nation.

There has been a clear message of eliminating the disastrous Bush Tax Cuts, thwarting the Fascist Designs of the Party of the 1%, and a rejection of 35 years of Piss Down Our Back and Tell You It's Raining Reaganomics.

But, I'm worried that now having gained some momentum, President Obama will look to solidify his Legacy and that Neo-Liberals in his circle are telling him that He is the One who can change Social Security and that a Grand Bargain of cuts to Earned Entitlements for some window dressing changes to the Tax Code is the way to do it.

Of course, cuts to Social Security, which are overwhelmingly rejected by 90%+ of Americans, would indeed secure President Obama's Legacy... As the man responsible for saving the Ultra-Reactionary Republican Party and the Creation of the Neo-Feudalist Wage Slave State.

*- whenever a Republican says privatize it means steal.