Reply #33: Then stop acting like it. [View All]

[Raineyb]

I don't think it's at all progressive to tell people who need health care the most that they have to suck it up and hope they don't die before it'll be their turn to get health care. And it certainly doesn't help for you to crow about what's supposedly so great about this bill while deliberately ignoring those it will harm. It is not progressive to deny people access to health care and it's not progressive to force people to pay for the "privilege" of being uninsured. And it's definitely not progressive to pass reform and set it up in a way to keep people who most need it waiting while telling them that it's for the greater good. I'm sure that anyone who dies while waiting will appreciate that their forced sacrifice somehow made it better for someone else especially when we know damn well we can and ought to do better. And it's not only not progressive but it's god damned callous to brush off people's concerns about not being able to take care of their conditions. All of which I've seen done in the name of this monstrosity they're calling health care reform which is neither about health care nor is it really reform.