Last week Physicians for a National Health Care Plan released a press
statement declaring the Republican plan to replace Obamacare “a
re-branded and far meaner version” of the 2010 Affordable Health Care
Act. This ought to raise a pertinent question: If all Republicans have
to do is “re-brand” and tweak Obamacare, was it really much good to
start with? The fact is that Obamacare was written by and for insurance
companies in the first place, and from the beginning it left out roughly
half the black uninsured, who lived in states where Republican
legislatures and governors were able to block Medicaid expansion. For many
of those who did receive coverage, high deductibles, co-insurance and
co-pays made using your new Obamacare policy unaffordable.
So why are Democratic special election candidates like Georgia’s Jon
Ossoff whining that they want to work with Republicans to “fix what’s
broken” in Obamacare, when the entire premise of trusting for-profit
insurance companies to deliver health care is bankrupt and useless? The
answer is that this is what Democrats do.
Bruce A. Dixon, "The
Bright Lines: Who Will Fight For Medicare For All, Who Will Stand
Against Militarism and Austerity? Not John Ossoff or Our Revolution." (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).