Alan: As Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney discovered when crafting "Romneycare," no universal care system is possible without an "individual mandate."
Talk about a "train wreck..."
An individual mandate is absolutely, non-negotiably anathema to rugged individualists who insist, as a sine qua non, that citizens be free to choose healthcare without any state-imposed obligation enforcing "collective" responsibility for universal healthcare.
This "free will" plank in the nation's conservative "platform" holds that anyone unable to cover the cost of their own health insurance should be sacrificed to the steel jaws of Social Darwinism.
Talk about a "train wreck..."
An individual mandate is absolutely, non-negotiably anathema to rugged individualists who insist, as a sine qua non, that citizens be free to choose healthcare without any state-imposed obligation enforcing "collective" responsibility for universal healthcare.
This "free will" plank in the nation's conservative "platform" holds that anyone unable to cover the cost of their own health insurance should be sacrificed to the steel jaws of Social Darwinism.
BEUTLER: Republicans still don't have a plan to replace Obamacare. "In synchronous op-eds that ironically reveal points of conflict as well as consensus, leading Senate and House Republicans claimed they’d step in to contain the damage if the Court rules for the plaintiffs. These editorials hint at a desire to let states waive out of the ACA into a much less regulated system. But both are silent on every crucial detail, and on the basic political fact that no such plan is likely to pass either chamber, nor win Obama’s approval. As if to underscore the pointlessness of the exercise, the House chairmen accented their column with six words that spell doom for any substantial undertaking: 'Republicans have formed a working group.' " The New Republic.
"Republicans Finally Admit Why They Hate Obamacare"
"GOP's Anti-Medicaid Expansion Body Count, By State"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/gops-anti-medicare-expansion-body-count.html
"Why Are Murderous GOP Governors Protected By The Press?"
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The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism
The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die.
The sooner the better.
Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right."
To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice, hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html
Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.
Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass Final Judgment.
Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold.
Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this.
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