reaction to the Supreme Court's great decision

I'm happy to say I called wrong how the Supreme Court would decide!

I was appalled by Senator Pat Robert's comments on the Supreme Court decision on "Obamacare". If it is as bad as he states, then why didn't he and other Republician apparachicks come up with something better?

There is truth in this cartoon:

Consider that "Obamacare" was based on "Romneycare" and the "unconstitutional Mandate" was originally a Republican idea. I guess having the current President champion their ideas was too much for them and they just had to repudiate them!

It could not have been simple racism, could it?  Given that I went to high school in southern Mississippi and Junior College in central Mississippi, I find racism to be a plausible notion.

I suppose I should be nicer than this but I don't feel like it. I've lost family who might have lived had they health care insurance...

We went to a benefit dinner for Megan Fairchild at the VFW. Megan is having a problem pregnancy and we donated the money for her benefit. I think it is a damned shame that a young couple should have to get folks to donate money in this manneer because his job doesn't provide adequate medical insurance and her job does not have medical insurance. She shouild have simply been able to go to her MD on her afordable hearlth insuracne.

"The Republican Party, while it is wicked and corrupt, is not an assemblage of fools, and, while there may be, and doubtlessly are, many foolish and stupid men who put themselves forward as leaders, the mass of voters in all sections of this country are tolerably sensible people."

Dodge City Democrat
December 23, 1883

some dispairing thoughts on "Obamacare"

It just occurred to me that "Affordable Health Care Reform" (AHDR) has probably been killed by the 5 to 4 Republican majority in the Supreme Court. I'd like to think they'll do something right for the American people and preserve AHDR (aka "Omabacare") but I see little reason for hope.

When the Supreme Court kills "Obamacare" and the Congress refuses to address the issues raised by it, then every person who dies from causes that could have been prevented by "Obamacare" will be a kill to be credited to each Supreme and each congress critter who refused to help the American people. This will require coroners to make such determininations and then report them. I suspect the numbers will grow enormously...

The issues include:

• cancelling health insurance for people "coming down with" severe illness (i.e. diabetes)
• not insuring those with "pre-existing conditions"
• limits on amounts paid
• not covering medical devices
• arbitrary benefit cuts and
• arbitrary co-pay increases

There are probably other issues I've overlooked. There is the horrible truth that many folks don't become sensitive to issues until they are forced to. I bet that if any of the Republican Supreme Court majority developed serious disease or their grandchildren do, then they'll modify their approach to laws.