I know so many people who think they are ok with their medical insurance.  I have tried to explain to them how they are wrong with little success.  I just finished reading this article which explains how medical insurance companies are willing to reprice their products and walk away from customers.  Employers will just not be able to afford to offer health insurance and people will not be able to afford it.

As I have explain before there is no keeping the present system even though I hear this refrain constantly from people.  They think it will continue to work — they think it is working.  They are not only wrong — they are dead wrong.

Consider that in the midst of a national health care debt, insurance companies announced 20-60% increases on health insurance.  Are they stupid to say this in the midst of the debate?  Of course they are.  It is red meat for the people who want to reform the system.  But it doesn’t matter because the increases are part of the system and will get much worse, year by year.  14,000 people a day are losing coverage and this will continue and get worse.  More and more will drop coverage because they simply can’t afford it.

To say health care is broken in this country is simplistic compared to the actual reality.   Meanwhile, Republicans are committed to killing even superficial reform — reform that only deals with a few items around the edges and will be years before it is fully implemented.   The only solution is to completely eliminate all profit from the system and enact a single payer system that controls cost.   This is not nationalizing doctors, hospitals and providers — this is just nationalizing health insurance.  It is the ONLY solution — MEDICARE FOR ALL — period!

But America won’t do the right thing — they will keep arguing and people will keep losing coverage and complaining about the costs.   For all the people who will lose their health insurance today, this month, this year — you are screwed — and if you get sick you will likely be financially ruined.   I will care because I have seen this day coming for a long time.  Republicans won’t.  Many Democrats won’t as well — some are so busy with this fetish about abortion to care about the real living people who are suffering.

Even if some health care reform passes, I won’t be celebrating.  It is a crummy non-solution and will just make it harder to implement the real solution.  Republicans will lie and say if only the present system was left along — many will believe the lie, just as they believe all the other lies of the right-wingers.

Today, I am sad about America — I am sad to see it fail, yet again.  I am sad to see the rich win and capitalism screw everybody over, again.

America is Doomed.