to read Andrew Levines article The Folly of Obamacare published on Counterpunch, Nov 8, 2013, click on counterpunch.org/2013/11/08/the-folly-of-obamacare/ ...Obamacare will “succeed” just as its precursor, Romneycare, did. That Republican program did fix some problems with insurance markets and it did diminish the number of people in Massachusetts who are uninsured. This is all that Obamacare will do for the rest of the country if it doesn’t founder first. Only in America is the idea that health care is a universal right still considered a radical position. Elsewhere, it is no longer even associated with the left. It is just simple common sense. That is how the Copernican view came to be regarded too – eventually... ...The time is past due for a paradigm shift, a Copernican Revolution in health care provision, here in this last bastion of the old regime. Until this happens, Americans will continue to pay more for less, and many will still be shut out of the system altogether. Costs too will rise, siphoning off resources that could be put to more constructive uses. If all goes well, Obamacare will serve as a temporary palliative. What we need is a cure. There is one at hand, of course, but we can’t get from here to there without upsetting the plutocrats who hold official Washington in thrall. Count on Obama to fight against that every inch of the way. In the final analysis, this is what is wrong with Obamacare. Like the President himself, it is on their side; not ours. ANDREW LEVINE is a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, the author most recently of THE AMERICAN IDEOLOGY (Routledge) and POLITICAL KEY WORDS (Blackwell) as well as of many other books and articles in political philosophy. His most recent book is In Bad Faith: What’s Wrong With the Opium of the People. He was a Professor (philosophy) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Research Professor (philosophy) at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). - See more at: thomhartmann/forum/2013/11/folly-obamacare#sthash.CzHEAdnA.dpuf
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