The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    People will die

    By Flavius on Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:48pm |

    if the Court rules against the Administration  in King vs Burwell.

    There are all sorts of estimates so let's make our own.

    There are 10 million  Obamacare users who didn't have insurance before and they'll once again won't have insurance. Some of them are going to have a life threatening condition in the next two years that would have been treated but won't be now.

    How many?Let's say 5%.

    Some of those 500 K souls will scrape up the money somehow and get better. But lots of them won't .Maybe half.

    So if those self important black robed people vote wrong on King/Burlwell maybe they'll be sending a quarter of a million people to death.. You can make your own casualty count but be sure of this: no one says that nobody will die as the result of the Court reaching the wrong decision.

     

    Comments

    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.  


    by trkingmomoe on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 12:41am

    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.


    by MrSmith1 on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 3:58am

    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.   


    by trkingmomoe on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 12:36pm

    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!


    by Richard Day on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 6:15pm

    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. 


    by Flavius on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 7:38pm