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February 17, 2010 2:44 PM   Subscribe

The system is broken and getting worse, why would anyone oppose health reform? Wouldn't anything be better than what we have? How many people have to lose everything they own because of the bull shit we put up with? How about the needless deaths, or the denial of coverage because of pre-existing conditions, coverage canceled because we needed to use the insurance that we have been paying for years, not able to get prescriptions that the doctors prescribe. I'm sure there is a regular laundry list of mistreatment.

I'm just a guy with a family trying to get by, but it seems as though we keep getting the crap beat out of us and then it gets shoved right back down our throats. This, and we keep paying more and more for this, as the health insurance industry keeps setting record profits.

I have to wonder what other abuses are out there as a consequence of our caring insurance profession, who "takes care of us", in the same manner as one takes care of the trash.

Even if the reform isn't perfect it's gotta be better than what we now.

So again, why is anyone against the reform?
posted by ok to Society & Culture (8 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is more of a rant, not really a question. please feel free to come back when your question is less XYZ SUCKS AMIRITE? thanks. -- jessamyn

 
Because they are funded by special interests, or emotionally invested in one particular solution.
posted by Ironmouth at 2:45 PM on February 17, 2010


I'm totally with you, but I don't know that this is really an AskMe question.
posted by scody at 2:48 PM on February 17, 2010




Get ready, if they get this then the next will be pension reform. Follow the money.
posted by notned at 2:49 PM on February 17, 2010


This is chatfilter, but in a nutshell, it's not getting worse for those who profit from the for-pay health or insurance systems.

And those people have much influence in the media and in Washington. There's a certain type of person who just believes and repeats whatever they hear on talk radio.

I'm just a guy with a family trying to get by....

There's your problem right there. America isn't a machine designed to benefit that.
posted by rokusan at 2:49 PM on February 17, 2010


According to one recent editorial in the WSJ, it's because it's too much big government taking our money and telling us what to do with it.
posted by craven_morhead at 2:52 PM on February 17, 2010


Most Americans are happy with their health care coverage and provision (pdf link). It's damn hard to change when the majority is happy with the status quo.

Which is not to say that the minority isn't fucked (they are) or that the majority's satisfaction is secure in the future (it is), but democracy is pretty damn poor at providing for minority interests and planning for the future.
posted by mr_roboto at 2:54 PM on February 17, 2010


As the Firedoglake link above shows, it's not helping that a small but vocal proportion of narcissistic liberals are making common cause with the Republicans on this. Supporters of reform are being opposed both by enemies of reform and by some self-absorbed perfectionistic supporters of reform. It's a nasty political situation — two ends against the middle.
posted by game warden to the events rhino at 2:54 PM on February 17, 2010


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