Health Care Debate

It's not about health care.  It's about Insurance companies and their contributions to our elected representatives. The focus of even the ACA centers on the behaviour of health insurance companies and what they may do and not do.  As a secondary by product, some considerations looks at physicians and hospitals.  Actual health care and it's cost receives only inor attention as I see it.  

The real pre-existing condition which few have talked about is the Health Insurance business model with which we aflict ourselves.  And, as a total non-sequitur,  the free market does not exist in this area.  The health insurance companies have a monopoly.   

Nancy Pelosi put on her less than subtle hobnailed boots and told the republican side of the isle that the latest non-OBAMA bill would mark their forheads with something like day glow paint.  That republicans would suffer in the mid-terms.  I should live so long. 

Why doesn't the lady's pronouncment work?   The folk on the left most likely to suffer at the republican handiwork have a known lack of patriotism, gumption, or  motivation.  I refer of course to the urban poor whho suffer from the structural iniquities which the system and their subculture imposes on them.  The rural poor,often come from Scots-irish origins.  Their ancesters survived Appalachia.  Their ultra Calvanist  God / culture requires them to avoid charity as a mark of moral weakness.  That same Their origins on the border lands between Scotland and England  instilled in them a willingness to fight against anything oppresive / English.  And, that include government intervention in their personal lives.  

As you might suspect, I resnet these folk.  I wold not so much if they would confine themselves to hanbdling thier snakes and mis-reading this Authorized King James.   But they also, unlike the urban poor feel compeled to vote.  This, despite the fact that they know less about the work than last night plucked chicken. 

The only way I know how to show them any sort of respect at all is to avoid as much contact as possible with themn.