Obamacare

The U.S. House of Representative Republican majority, supported by five Democrats, tried once more to tantrum universal health care away. This is simply political theater, of course. We live in an age when political theater and the money it brings to the actors in it trump the public welfare. Our political class represents the interests of the wealthy and the corporations in their portfolios.

As a humanist, committed to rational and scientific consciousness, I feel alienated when I see the public polling statistics which seem to support this outrage. But I am also skeptical about the validity of those polling statistics. The vagaries of the health care industry and its payment structure make a straight-forward survey of average Americans near impossible on this issue. Of course, the system is designed that way to keep consumers of medical care uninformed about the payment structure, which is corrupt and unnecessary.

Obama deserves the stigma associated with Obamacare. Obamacare is a second-class plan. He quickly retreated from public health insurance, the global standard for a first-class health plan, to placate his Wall Street handlers and their insurance company confederates. This was a surrender without a battle which could have shed light on the dark shadows of the health insurance industry. That light of truth and information could very well have educated even the more obtuse about the necessity of government reform of health delivery in the U.S..

Medical care and research are keys to longevity and a better quality of life. Currently, medical care in the U.S., especially optional dermatology and cosmetic care, is a big business.That big business, primarily driven by the demand of the wealthy, needs to be carved out of general health care provision for the population entirely and definitively. The government's job is to provide for all the people. It is dismally failing at that job, even with Obamacare.