Obamacare: You can’t hurry love

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Can I hear a Hoorah!?

We interrupt this program to crow briefly over the Supreme Court Decision on so-called “Obamacare;” and to point out that we should contain our enthusiasm, because it is still a long way from secure, and even further from perfect.  

There are still many, many battles ahead on the federal and state level before we have truly universal healthcare. But it’s worth the struggle because

“Healthcare is a human right.”

What the hell… “HOO-rah!”  

Kestrel, cue the Supremes.

About Sue Prent

Artist/Writer/Activist living in St. Albans, Vermont with my husband since 1983. I was born in Chicago; moved to Montreal in 1969; lived there and in Berlin, W. Germany until we finally settled in St. Albans.

3 thoughts on “Obamacare: You can’t hurry love”

  1. As soon as the justices emerged from behind the velvet curtain at 10 a.m. this morning, clues about how the Supreme Court would rule on health care were apparent.

    Justice Stephen Breyer had a broad smile on his face, while Justice Antonin Scalia looked downward morosely, as if attending a wake.

    […]the mandate would be upheld, but without expanding the Commerce Clause powers of Congress. Scalia’s sour look persisted.

    http://legaltimes.typepad.com/…

  2. ObamaCare is health care for the insurance companies and the corporations (and the Republicans).  Average working Americans have expressed fear and disappointment with this plan.  The fear being that the average worker has to PAY what he or she MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PAY.  The disappointment is that there will be no development of a single payer system from this plan because it will be blocked by the Republicans for the benefit of big insurance and big business.

    Now, Sue–Roberts voted FOR UPHOLDING ObamaCARE.  Doesn’t that tell you something?  This is a fix.  The American working class (and most of the middle class) is screwed again.  And WORSE–how will the SOBs use Obamacare to destroy single payer initiatives in this state and other states?  The Repubs probably TOLD Roberts to vote for ObamaCare, cause the backlash from the working poor who have to pay up the nose for it will be on Obama THIS NOVEMBER.  

    The Supreme Court didn’t hand us or the working class a victory, unless you think that ‘good little Dems’ should rejoice over a corporate takeover of Health Care As A Human Right.  Shumlin’s cozy with the SEIU and is even setting up some new bullshit agency called Vermont Leads to channel money and energy away from the Vermont Workers Center and others who have campaigned for single payer.  Why doesn’t he take the SEIU money and give it to the Vermont Workers Center people (who know Vermont & Vermonters) to work on single payer, as they have been for years?  Why?  Because Shumlin is Mitt Romney rich and he’s shown his attitude about workers’ rights by his swipe at VSEA.

    No, this Supreme Court ruling means half-assed health care at prices workers should NOT have to pay.  I’m sure the REAL CELEBRATING is going on right now at Romney Headquarters, as in:  “Stupid Dems.  We got ’em Again!”

    Think.  THINK. THINK.  Critical Thought.  Screwing the ‘most vulnerable’ is not a cause for celebration.  Or is HYPOCRISY covered in ObamaCare?

    Goddamnit.  The Dems Could Fuck-Up An Ambush.

  3. If the ACA had been overturned, then I do not believe we would see a Congress take up health care reform again for a long time. The biggest reason that today is a day to celebrate, in spite of all of the obvious flaws and giveaways to insurance companies in the current law, is that it will allow the real reformers (like those in Vermont) a chance to show what good health care reform looks like for the rest of the nation.

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