Taxing the Middle Class
UPDATED BELOW WITH VIDEO
oh look, another broken promise from Obama:
President Obama told House Democratic leaders at a meeting on Wednesday that they should include a tax on high-priced insurance policies favored by the Senate in the final version of far-reaching health care legislation, aides said…
But House Democrats have resisted the idea, which is also strongly opposed by many organized labor groups — an important part of the party’s base — because the tax may hit a number of more generous union-sponsored health plans.
So changey. So hopey. Oh and guess what else?
The budget director, Peter R. Orszag, for instance, has repeatedly extolled the potential economic merits of the proposed tax on high-cost insurance plans, as well as an independent agency to recommend potential government savings in Medicare.
That sounds like cuts to me. Cuts to the only real public option available to Americans (correct me if I’m wrong).
Even hopier. Just wait until this monstrosity gets passed, and middle- and working-class Americans realize they have to pay more for the insurance they’re already paying through the nose for. Wait until those mandatory insurance bills start rivaling the mortgage or the household budget. Wait until no one’s coming close to makin’ the nut.
it’s going to be a fucking disaster, and i’m not talking about the political ramifications for the worthless Democrats and their doppelgangers, the Republican toadstools.
I mean for families, for kids, for middle-aged people who don’t yet qualify for medicare. And yes, we’re expanding health insurance to millions more people, but what good is that if the deductibles are so high you can’t use it when you need it, or it’s paid for on the backs of working people instead of the uber-rich being required to pay a fair share? All you’re doing is making a serf class that’s owned by the very insurance industry that’s been profiting off of sickness and death for decades?
It didn’t have to be this way, but because the Democrats haven’t kept faith with the people, that is what we’re going to get. Is it any wonder so few Democrats, including me, plan to vote in 2010? We’ve been sold a bill of goods for so long, by our own party members, including broken promises on NAFTA, FISA, Iraq, bailouts, and now health care insurance reform, that it’s impossible to take any of them at their word anymore.
We not only need a new party, we need a whole new system.
UPDATE:
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
