Tuesdays with Claymore

The Obamacare thread is the one that makes me shake my damn head. Prior to Bobo fucking around with 1/3rd of the economy (hey, it’s not a tax…but it is if it makes it legal!), I had some pretty decent insurance. Not great, but decent. After ACA, our state administered plan had to conform to the “gold-silver-bronze” bullshit that the rest of the nation had been suckered into. With that and the changes to everything from how much you could put into your HRA, what constitutes a “medical device” (plastic fucking tubing????), to a $10k family deductable, my insurance is basically there for catastrophic care. My sleep doctor wants me to have an updated study so she can track progress…the last time I had this done was in 2009. It was almost 100% covered then. Today, MY portion (of a 75/25 split) is nearly $4500. Guess what…I will not be getting a new sleep study done any time soon. So when assholes try to whine about their coverage and simultaneously try to say Obamacare isn’t the reason for the bullshit they’re dealing with, I want to throat punch them.

The arrogance of the people on DU is often quite amazing to me. They attempt to assess why Republicans vote the way they do, often expressing the concept that it must be because Republicans need to feel superior to someone in society, they do with this with such obvious condescension that the irony of their explanation is lost on them. The problem with DU’ers is they think the dems can do no wrong and the repubs can do no right, when sadly the truth is neither party is interested in advancing the economic concerns of the nation’s middle class because neither party is obligated to the middle class. Both parties are obligated to their 1% masters and their actions are consistent proof of that obligation. NAFTA didn’t pass with republican only support….both parties conspired to screw the middle class on that deal. The same with the favored nation trading status for China, both parties “helped” the United States with that move. We the people have willingly ceded control over our future to a mere two parties both of which are owned part and parcel by Wall Street interests. We, the vapid voters have decided we’d rather engage in idiotic hyperbole over cake bakers than whether or not anyone will actually have jobs that allow us to buy those cakes. We the non-engaged electorate have abdicated our responsibility to our children and allowed those who would sell uranium to the Russians to run our government. We willingly cede our economic freedoms to a two party system wholly owned by big money. The truly sad part is how many of our fellow citizens actually believe they have a choice between different candidates during the election season. This time around, they just might have two options but the reality is those two option are also thirty year products of the very same system both claim they will deconstruct. We’ve given away our choices by refusing to consider voting for someone with a different letter than we’d like after their name. We’ve allowed these politicians to split us into tribes like some third world… Read more »