Reply #4: Sorry, but this health care "reform" will destroy me and mine [View All]

[MadHound]

I'm a teacher, and as an attempt to make up for shitty pay I do have great insurance. Now then I'll have to worry about this excise tax which will do either one of two things, severely lessen the quality of my insurance or have the rates jacked up as they pass along excise tax to me.

Meanwhile women's right to choose will be curtailed no matter whether the Nelson language or the Stupak amendment make it through. Sorry, but I can't go there.

Handing a mandated monopoly over to the insurance companies, with no public option to provide a restraint on prices, is a sure recipe for skyrocketing insurance rates.

There is far more bad than good in this bill, even the ban on pre-existing conditions has a ton of loopholes in it, and that might be on the chopping block as well.

I want to see this POS bill go down, now.

As far as Democrats losing elections, oh well. Quite frankly given the track record of Democrats over the past twenty years, that isn't much of a loss. That proverbial dime's worth of difference has shrunk down to only a couple of cents. Frankly I would rather see the Democratic party go down in flames and some other, more liberal, less corporately corrupt party arise from the ashes. I can't have much sympathy for a party that gave us NAFTA, welfare "reform", MFT status to China, and so much else, while jumping on the Patriot Act bandwagon, the Iraq and Afghan war bandwagon, and are now doubling down, again, on Afghanistan.

You speak of the Democratic party like I should give a shit about it. Sorry, but it's hard to care about a party that stopped caring about me long ago. At this point in time the only political party out there that gives a shit about me and mine is the Green party, which is where my support goes. There are a few individual Dems, on a local basis, that I support, but the party in general can sink into the ocean for all I care.