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On Nov 14, 2013 10:51 PM, "Fye Samateh" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Haruna for your insights on the Healthcare issue...Do you think is
> possible America can introduce a Welfare System like here in Scandinavia ???
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> Niamorkono..
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Haruna <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thank you Nyamorkono and Hous for sharing. In addition to what Hous
>> shared Nyamorkono, I would take us back to the alternative - Even with the
>> hospital welfare for the indigent, those patients end up dying in the
>> emergency room area or being infected with other diseases while they
>> waited. The most well-off suck that funding right out of the healthcare
>> system via cadillac services (cosmetic surgeries, fanciful wheelchairs with
>> DVD players, etc.). The rural areas would have continued to see a migration
>> of the family doctor to the urban areas and mega-hospitals because that is
>> where the most money could be made. Medical institutions would continue to
>> charge an arm and a leg for a medical education which you can receive in
>> Europe and the Eukraine (: for the price of a goat and a chicken. Medical
>> equipment manufacturers play right along by diverting resources from the
>> manufacture of diagnostic and treatment equipment to high-faluting cosmetic
>> surgery equipment and remote-controlled wheelchairs. I could go on and on
>> and on. I have not even touched on those with pre-existing conditions and
>> kids just coming out of college with no insurance to start their careers
>> with.
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>> Thank you Nyamorkono for the opportunity. I couldn't care less if the
>> website healthcare.gov ends up being hacked every day, the Affordable
>> Care Act is far better than whatever can be conceived in its place. Death
>> Panels for the poor and indigent.
>>
>> Haruna.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Husainou <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 9:06 am
>> Subject: Re: Obamacare lies exposed
>>
>> It depends on who you talk to and which state you are in. For the
>> ordinary citizens, it's the best to happen. Remember it not possible to
>> have a program of this magnitude without glitches. Also some people would
>> like to see this Obamacare fail. I think it is premature to grade it now
>> rather it should be given a bit more time. Do you think the insurance
>> industry is comfortable with the passage of the Obamacare ? Isn't there
>> some politic involve in it? And who and how many don't have health care
>> insurance ?
>> Hous
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>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 8:15 AM, Fye Samateh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Haruna...Any comments on this article ?
>> Niamorkono...
>> Obamacare lies exposed 12 November 2013
>> The Obama administration has designed a health care system aimed at
>> defrauding the population, stripping tens of millions of Americans of
>> decent coverage and rationing health care along class lines. It is a scheme
>> largely authored by the insurance and health care industry to boost their
>> profits by depriving people of medicines, tests and procedures and lowering
>> the life expectancy of workers.
>> This is the essence of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as
>> Obamacare. It is a health care counterrevolution posing as a progressive
>> “reform.” Its full enactment will have devastating consequences for the
>> health and the very lives of a large majority of the US population.
>> One of the newly exposed consequences of the ACA is a sharp reduction in
>> a government subsidy that for years defrayed costs to hospitals for
>> uncompensated and undercompensated care given to poor people. These
>> subsidies have helped provide cancer and other life-saving treatments to
>> those who would otherwise have no access to such care.
>> These funds for safety-net hospitals are set to be reduced by $18 billion
>> through 2020 and by an additional $22 billion by 2019, inevitably resulting
>> in increased suffering, disease and death.
>> It is now six weeks since the launch of the exchanges set up under the
>> ACA to sell health insurance to the public. Virtually every day has brought
>> new revelations showing that the promises made by President Obama in
>> relation to his health care overhaul were lies.
>> The continuing crisis at the HealthCare.gov web site is more than a
>> technical debacle. It reflects not only the ineptitude of government
>> agencies and corporate contractors, but the character of the product the
>> web site is peddling. It also reflects the contempt of the Obama
>> administration for individuals and families desperate to obtain access to
>> decent health care.
>> HealthCare.gov does not exist to extend affordable coverage to the
>> millions of uninsured, offer life-saving treatments to the poor, or train
>> new doctors and nurses. Its central feature is a requirement, backed up by
>> fines, for people who are not insured through their employers or a
>> government health plan such as Medicare or Medicaid to purchase coverage
>> from a private insurance company. This will automatically expand the
>> insurance industry’s pool of cash-paying customers.
>> At the same time, Obamacare will drastically reduce government
>> expenditures on health care. It is set to slash $700 billion from the
>> Medicare program for the elderly and disabled over the next decade.
>> As recently as last week, the president was making the absurd claim to
>> supporters that through Obamacare “we were able to deliver on universal
>> health care.” This is a brazen falsehood.
>> Even before the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov, the Congressional
>> Budget Office was predicting that 31 million people would remain uninsured,
>> including undocumented immigrants who are barred from receiving government
>> subsidies to purchase coverage and millions of the very poor who will not
>> be insured because their state governments have chosen not to expand their
>> Medicaid programs under the ACA.
>> Obama was forced to go on national television<http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/11/09/obam-n09.html>last week amidst reports that hundreds of thousands of people insured
>> through the individual market have been dropped from coverage by their
>> insurers. These cancellations expose as yet another lie the president’s
>> repeated claim that under Obamacare, “If you like your health plan, you can
>> keep it.”
>> In the majority of cases, replacement plans offered to these customers
>> are substantially more expensive.
>> ACA regulations written more than three years ago included an estimate
>> that at least “40 to 67 percent” of the 11 million to 14 million people
>> insured through the individual market would lose their coverage. But Obama
>> continued to say that people would be able to keep their plans.
>> He attempted to cover up this lie with another in his appearance on NBC
>> News last Thursday. “I meant what I said,” he declared, adding, “obviously
>> we didn’t do a good enough job, and I regret that.”
>> The fallout over the administration’s misinformation regarding the
>> individual insurance market is only the tip of the iceberg. Beyond this
>> relatively small market are the 170 million Americans who are presently
>> enrolled in health care plans through their employers. The health care
>> overhaul has been devised as a means of dismantling this employer-based
>> system, which for decades provided a basic level of health insurance for
>> tens of millions of workers in the US.
>> Companies have already shifted their retirees off of company-administered
>> health plans and onto privately run health care exchanges that offer plans
>> with few benefits and large out-of-pocket expenses. City and state
>> governments are also moving to shift their retirees, and in some cases
>> their active employees, off of municipally funded benefits and onto
>> privately run exchanges or directly onto the Obamacare exchanges.
>> Employees are offered small stipends and forced to confront gigantic
>> health insurance corporations as individuals. This is precisely the type of
>> voucher system that ruling class opponents of Medicare plan to institute to
>> undermine and privatize the government-run health insurance program.
>> The biggest lie spread by Obama and his apologists is that the ACA
>> constitutes a genuine social reform.
>> As the *World Socialist Web Site* correctly stated<http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/07/pers-j28.html>months before its passage in March of 2010, the Obama administration’s
>> overhaul of the health care system is a “counterrevolution in health care”
>> that is “of a piece with his entire domestic agenda,” aiming to *increa*
>> *se* social inequality.
>> The political strategists of the corporate-financial elite are devising
>> schemes, such as Obamacare, aimed at reducing life expectancy for workers.
>> As they see it, advances in medical technology have created the undesirable
>> result of workers living too long in retirement, sapping resources that
>> could go to further enriching the multi-millionaires and billionaires at
>> the top of society.
>> The provision of universal, quality health care requires putting health
>> care under workers’ control and placing it on socialist foundations. The
>> working class must answer the Obamacare counterrevolution with its own
>> program and perspective, placing the social rights of the working class
>> above the profit drive of the outmoded capitalist system and its parasitic
>> ruling elite.
>> Kate Randall
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