Reply #128: If we have "near-universal health care," as you claim, how come [View All]

[Bette Noir]

the discharge planner at the hospital is so worried about the expense we're going to face from home health, when my husband is discharged? Because we do NOT have "near-universal health care" in this country. The only thing the health care reform law did is give Americans the right to buy insurance, at whatever cost the insurance company sets, STARTING IN 2014. My husband's current illness is going to set us back thousands of dollars, possibly tens of thousands, in spite of our having given 80% of our current income to the insurance company for COBRA coverage, since he lost his job last year.

Who do I think could have done better? Obama could have, but he chose not to. He has twisted himself into a pretzel trying to get a bunch of old white racists to like him, while alienating the people who supported him in the first place. That's not three-dimensional chess, that's delusion.