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Either the US medical

Flavius — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:38:19 +0000

Either the US medical establishment is entirely composed of incompetent ,money grubbing time wasters or it contains a lot of smart people who are capable of doing some good. Like preventing their patients from dying.

My guess is that by a wide margin most of the republican leaders would vehemently reject the first alternative.

Then how in good conscience can they, at least the "normal" ones , root for a Scotus decision which , as night follows day, must result in hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens some of whom are bound to be their constituents, suffer an avoidable premature death while the doctors who could have prevented it are having an extra day on the golf course .

It's not an exact fit but this 19th century comment is near enough:

The golf course lies so near the mill

That almost every day

The children working on the looms

Can see the men at play.

............................................................................

It's disgusting.

Yeah, people will die.

Richard Day — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:15:06 +0000

In reply to People will die

Yeah, people will die.

Recall the death panels?

Hell, every hospital deciding who gets a transplant, has a panel deciding who will die and who will live.

But damn! People will die if this new insurance initiative dies.

There is no humor in all of this.

PEOPLE WILL DIE.

Thank you for pointing this out!

Some of the moderates are

trkingmomoe — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:36:48 +0000

In reply to This is a case of the mouse

Some of the moderates are worried but I don't think the crazies have a clue what the rest of the country wants. We got some real nuts from the right in Florida's House that is being offered lots of money for their campaign in 2016 by the American for Progress group that is financed by Koch Bros. It has been in the papers here who is behind the curtain pulling the strings. They can't balance their budget with out it. It is a stand off between the State Senate and the State House right now. Senate has a bill for expanding Medicaid that they passed unanimously. Florida is heading for a shut down.

This is a case of the mouse

MrSmith1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 07:58:50 +0000

In reply to You are right, people will

This is a case of the mouse that caught the cat. Years of SCOTUS decisions decided by partisan politics rather than rule of law has led Conservatives to believe they can get any ruling they want to go their way, even ridiculously flimsy cases that in more rational times never would have reached the Supreme Court. Now suddenly, they are faced with the real possibility they may get the ruling they have wanted with such intensity for so long ... Only they now realize it will come with an enormous price; they will be blamed for millions of people losing their health insurance and possibly their lives. The GOP is quaking in their boots. They fear the only thing they ever fear; the loss of power. They know that if this decision goes their way, it will be a tsunami against them at election time. There is simply no way they can spin this to be Obama's fault, even to their most ardent supporters. It will be the thing which ruins them for a generation ... and they know it. They have only themselves to blame.

You are right, people will

trkingmomoe — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 04:41:18 +0000

In reply to People will die

You are right, people will die. People are dying in Florida because of the lack of Medicaid.

The court better be humane or there could be a backlash.