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| You're the one with the headache--the "free" market is the ball and chain |
One of the reasons Trumpcare has failed thus far, is that radical right-wingers like Rand Paul don't believe it goes far enough in screwing over your average American. Paul wants to turn it all over to the marketplace (Exact quote: "You have to believe that leaving people alone, that the marketplace will bring prices down." Seriously? Who the fuck believes that other than rich folks?) and let it decide what prices to charge folks like us who aren't millionaires.
And while this piece from Think Progress does an excellent job of debunking Paul's bullshit, it doesn't make the simple argument: the marketplace doesn't care if you live or die, but the government (at least when it's run by Democrats) does. Frankly, if the poor, the working class, and the middle class want affordable healthcare that will actually protect them when they're sick, the government must be involved.
Otherwise, you can guarantee that business will start booming for funeral homes--which, come to think of it, may be the republican plan after all.
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
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