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| Source:The Nation- Laura Flanders talking to Dr. Margaret Flowers. |
"Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program sees one major flaw in President Obama's Affordable Care Act: It did not go far enough. The only solution, Flowers argues in this conversation with Laura Flanders, is to push for universal healthcare by expanding medicare so that it covers all Americans."
From The Nation
The consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court throwing out most, if not all of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, (which Dr. Margaret Flowers doesn't seem to have problem with) is that 20 million Americans, most of those Americans who are very hard-working and limited in income, would automatically lose their current health insurance.
The consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court throwing out most, if not all of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, (which Dr. Margaret Flowers doesn't seem to have problem with) is that 20 million Americans, most of those Americans who are very hard-working and limited in income, would automatically lose their current health insurance.
If SCOTUS throws out the ACA, we would immediately go back to a system that left out 45-50 million Americans who get up and work very hard for a living and don't make a lot of money, who can't afford health insurance, even if their employers currently offer health insurance, because they can't even afford their employer's plan.
Dr. Flowers seems to be suggesting that we can just throw out the ACA (also known as ObamaCare) and replace it with a government only and government-run plan, where every single American would be under the same government-run, health insurance plan, which has never been popular in this country, or it would've. been passed into law by now, as if it's that easy.
What Dr. Flowers seems to be suggesting, is that replacing ObamaCare would be really easy. You spill a glass of milk, no problem. Just clean up your little mess and pour yourself another glass of milk. As if there's not a Republican House of Representatives right now, or they would just suddenly see the light and say something like: "You know what, I've been wrong all along. What we really need is a government takeover of our health care system in America. Let's pass that today and send it to the Senate."
What we need to do instead, is for SCOTUS to uphold the current Affordable Care Act and then let the election decide what kind of health care system that we should have in the future and have a little faith in American democracy and Americans to make their own most personal of decisions, like their own health care. Instead of big government treating them like idiots and telling them that they know what's best for them.
You can also see my follow up post about Dr. Margaret Flowers and the SCOTUS ruling on the Affordable Care Act, at FreeState MD.
