If you want to screw the ACA, do you want the disabled to be charged more for insurance than others?

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59. Stale, offensive Third Way talking points. Moving on to another thread now.

Shun Third Way Spin and Talking Points
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5767160

It is the Third Way here that repeatedly attacks *anyone* who posts with complaints about the ACA. Newsflash: We *need* complaints about the ACA, or we will never get anything but corporate exploitation.

We are treated like blithering idiots by the Third Way propaganda.

The mandate was the salivated-after goal of the corporate profiteers, and it's sucking bilions from the pockets of Americans into the pockets of CEO's and shareholders exactly as planned.

"Why Health Insurance Shareholders Are Loving Obamacare"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025517310

Aetna Health Insurance will double Revenues to $100 billion by 2020 thanks to Obamacare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014670789

ObamaCare Enriches The Health Insurance Giants and Their Shareholders
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2013/10/01/obamacare-enriches-only-the-health-insurance-giants-and-their-shareholders/

So far in 2013 the value of the S& P health insurance index has gained 43%. Thats more than double the gains made in the broad stock market index, the S & P 500. The shares of CIGNA are up 63%, Wellpoint 47% and United Healthcare 28%.

"But, oh! It's just a first step!!!!!1!!" promise the Third Way vipers. Well, we were told SIX years ago that this was a "first step" toward something better, but true to Third Way form, the only actual "adjustments" we have seen have been to carve out more exploitation for the insurance companies.

All this Third Way PR theater gets so old, the projecting of virtuous motives onto corporate Democrats that they have shown no sign of wanting to embrace. There is NO sign...I mean zero, zip, nada...that making the ACA a step to something better is on the Third Way's or the administration's agenda at all. THIS is what they wanted, and they are *already* busy adjusting it so as to reduce the benefits to human beings that they had to include in order to sell the mandate. Oh, there have been some changes, but consistently on behalf of the corporations and at the expense of the people:

The employer mandate was delayed...the mandate for Americans? Not so much:

White House delays employer mandate requirement until 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/02/white-house-delays-employer-mandate-requirement-until-2015/

Out of pocket caps on costs for patients....also delayed...again targeting the *people,* not the insurance corporations.

Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/us/a-limit-on-consumer-costs-is-delayed-in-health-care-law.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

And then this brazen assault:

Obama administration quietly approves new Obamacare loophole benefiting insurance companies.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024970298

The bipartisan (despite all theater to the contrary) corporate ACA is already skyrocketing insurance company profits beyond the wildest dreams of its architects. The insurance companies wrote the thing, and it was *designed* to entrench an exploitative, profit-sucking system of middlemen that keeps costs spiraling at the expense of human beings who need care. Look instead for more "loopholes" like the one the Obama administration *already* carved out in order to help the companies shift even more costs to patients.

If most people understood how it is rigged, and how much is being stolen, they would be outraged. The mandate was a corporate wet dream - it ensures that obscene levels of money that should be going to health care instead are given as a cut to these thieving health insurance middlemen. It ensures continued spiraling costs. And it ensures a continued motive to deny care for profit.

Healthcare as commodity. Obscenely overpriced "insurance" that people cannot afford to use. Profits mandated...instead of care. And a system in which "consumers" must desperately "shop" for a new (lower-benefit, higher deductible, lower-tier) plan every year as premiums skyrocket and they are mercilessly priced out of the old ones. And the lipstick on the pig, the subsidies, go directly to the profiteers. The pockets of Americans are looted, while the oligarchs have their obscene profits codified and protected in the law itself.

Of course some *individuals* are helped! But they are helped by other Americans who pay for the subsidies. NOT by making the bloodsucking corporations pay; no, their profits are codified into the law. And why wouldn't the corporate vipers structure it this way? How else could PR for this massive takeover by corporations, this perversion and exploitation of the basic human need for healthcare into a nationwide, mandated profit opportunity for bloodsucking middlemen, *ever* have been pulled off as it was?


Third Way Democrats and corporate Republicans bank on gullibility and lack of awareness of what their policies actually accomplish for the wealthy. Most especially, they bank on the hope that they can propagandize each issue separately -- the turning of every single human need (for education, for health care, for energy) into a profit stream for oligarchs-- so that people won't see the overarching, always present agenda:

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the constant siphoning of wealth upward....the looting of this country for the already obscenely wealthy corporate elite.

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