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Communists vs. Insurance company lobbyists? Is that what the health care reform became?

I live in a house with people registered to several different parties so we have been getting automated phone calls from both sides. yes, reform is needed, but not turning the IRS into the federal security bureau for health insurance. At the same time I have no love of insurance companies, but if anyone has "sold us out" to big corporations, it is the ones who signed on with Obamacare, like AARP, who are given sweetheart deals as a result. I was referring to the labels being thrown about by extremists on either side, which prevents any real substantial, helpful reform coming out of this. The final decisions, defintions, policies, will be made by health and human services bureaucrats, so all the pols can wash their hands of any blame. That is the sobering political reality. As for teh difference between communism and socialism, communism says everything, including your body and mind, is owned by the state, socialism lets you claim title to property and self, but they control what you can do with it and tax you as much as they please. Zoning is an excellent example of socialism, always justified as in the public interest, and always abused by those who seek office to wield such power over others. No matter how well intended or noble in thought, these schemes always get hijacked by petty tyrants, "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." Hope you never have to find out rationing fears are justified.

Public Comments

1. You would benefit from a bit of research into the differences between socialism and communism. Once this research has revealed that the premise of your question is unsound by virtue of the mere use of "communists" to depict consumer-protecting (doing their JOB) representative Democrats and President Obama in their David vs. Goliath battle against the GIANT corporate GREED and correlated CORRUPTION within the 1300 for-profit health care providers, you just might reword the question. Lobbyists for the greed-driven corrupt insurers are but a symptom of the predatory and deep-rooted systemic corruption with which the Obama administration is dealing as the consumer-champion side (Democrats and President Obama) attempt to do battle on behalf of the American people and for the well-being of the wounded American economy. If socialism frightens you, despite the fact that the U.S. has pretty much always been a yin-yang balanced combination of socialism and capitalism, then consider the following socialist programs upon which the people of this nation rely: U.S. Post Office, the military, highways and roadways, bridges and tunnels, police and fire departments, national parks, public schools and universities, the VA medical system, public transportation, mass transit, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and so on and so on...Feel better now? Of course you are free to opt out of any of the above socialist systems, and also forego OSHA, FDA, FCC, EEOC protections, unemployment insurance, the Americans With Disabilities Act (which I helped lobby to get enacted), whistleblower protections, witness protection, equal rights, civil rights, ... Liberal (i.e., socialist) programs all.
2. Hey, Fake armchair goddess, Who's goddess are you? Tell us how many of those government plans you bring up are not in the Red as far as money. They are all red when it comes to government. Tell all of the people you live with to get a job and get a life, I am not willing to pay for their lazyness.