Stephan: This report, and a growing number of others like it, are further examples of the Great Schism Trend. I personally, as all regular readers know, was not a supporter of Obamacare. I believe only a single-payer system not based on profit can actually produce a real healthcare system. What we have now is an illness profit system. But I agree that Obamacare is a more humane version, although still profit based.
Even the benefits it does offer are being denied, however, people who live in Red States. Increasingly I feel sorry for them. They have voted in men and women who aren't very bright in the first place, and who are driven by theology, ideology, and personal interest instead of the good of their state and the people who live in it. This is the home truth, one important to remember: these legislators and governors did not come to power through force, but through the ballot box.
Obamacare implementation is becoming the latest dividing line between blue- and red-state America, with Democrat-led states making progress to expand healthcare to the uninsured and the poor-and Republican-led states saying ‘screw you’ to millions of their most vulnerable and needy residents.
The latest sign of the Republican Party’s increasingly secessionist tendencies comes as Obamacare passed a major milestone in California, which late last week announced lower-than-expected healthcare premiums for its 5.3 million uninsured, less than many small businesses now pay in group plans.
‘Covered California’s Silver Plan