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In reply to the discussion: I don't think the Health Insurance Reform Act was a great progressive achievement. [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)and Willard enhancing the position and codifying the predatory insurance cartel as gatekeeper while minting them as a "too big to fail" including handing over a key to our treasury to the fucking vultures isn't liberal even if some of the pay to play features are a step in the right direction.
How is "reform" progressive when it leaves them with an anti-trust exemption? That isn't liberal, it isn't even American. Hell, that isn't even capitalist.
What it is, is fascist. The corrupt merger of industry and state and a few costly boons doesn't change that reality an iota. Hell, most Americans will be mandated to purchase a for profit "commodity" selected by their employers.
Since when is progress defined as mandated purchase from the company store? That is going way backward, back to the turn of the 20th century.