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Mar. 22nd, 2010 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockThis comment over at Sadly, No! is pretty damned interesting:
wordyeti said,
March 22, 2010 at 19:56
Strange. I hadn’t thought I’d feel this good about this bill passing. I’d become pretty disillusioned with it over the last few months – but a conversation last Friday with the head of UCSF Medical School (basically, UC-Berkeley’s medical wing – one of the top 3 in the world) kinda won me over.
He didn’t like the bill either. But he said, “It’s a starting point. It gets the insurance companies under government control. Short-term, they’re gonna gouge everyone like never before. But long-term, the government is going to start grinding away at those bastards. That’s what the government does. That’s what the GOP was so worried about – long-term, their little corrupt gravy train based on human misery and suffering is going to come to an end.”
BTW – this was a guy who solemnly confirmed that he was indeed a member of a death panel already. That he had to make the decisions every damn day about who will get care and who will not – only those are following the mandates of insurance company dickslaps who make their quarterly bonus by finding excuses to not give people the treatment they need. His job sucks.
Today it sucks just a tiny bit less. Our lives suck just a bit less.
That is not the huge Change we Hoped for. But it is a change in a positive direction, and I believe in it.
Amen.
wordyeti said,
March 22, 2010 at 19:56
Strange. I hadn’t thought I’d feel this good about this bill passing. I’d become pretty disillusioned with it over the last few months – but a conversation last Friday with the head of UCSF Medical School (basically, UC-Berkeley’s medical wing – one of the top 3 in the world) kinda won me over.
He didn’t like the bill either. But he said, “It’s a starting point. It gets the insurance companies under government control. Short-term, they’re gonna gouge everyone like never before. But long-term, the government is going to start grinding away at those bastards. That’s what the government does. That’s what the GOP was so worried about – long-term, their little corrupt gravy train based on human misery and suffering is going to come to an end.”
BTW – this was a guy who solemnly confirmed that he was indeed a member of a death panel already. That he had to make the decisions every damn day about who will get care and who will not – only those are following the mandates of insurance company dickslaps who make their quarterly bonus by finding excuses to not give people the treatment they need. His job sucks.
Today it sucks just a tiny bit less. Our lives suck just a bit less.
That is not the huge Change we Hoped for. But it is a change in a positive direction, and I believe in it.
Amen.
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Date: 2010-03-23 01:50 am (UTC)But all the right people opposed it.