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How The Healthcare Debate Is Poisoned By Both The Left & The Right Fringes, Pt 2
February 16th, 2010
Russell Mokhiber is a self-righteous ideology who’s just as visceral and small minded as the anti-healthcare mobsters at last summers town hall meetings, or as Rush Limbaugh.
His whole assailing of the character of those who have a different approach even to his same or similar goal, is a great demonstration of what is wrong with politics in this country; and the reason why real solutions to big problems hardly ever come about.
The ideologue extremist at both ends shout the loudest, and badger and brow beat the masses in the middle into shrinking away from supporting centrist commonsense that would most benefit the whole. Both ends work hard to torpedo actual progress in a favor of an all-or-nothing win for their ideology.
Mr. Mokhiber position is not only wrong, ludicrous, wrought with logical fallacy, and unsupported; its completely counterproductive and politically impractical towards actually getting something done to benefit the tens of millions without healthcare, and the millions more stressed by healthcare cost and or receiving poor delivery.
It’s utterly absurd to say that merely by his decree, and citation of one other person who decreed the same, that his approach is the only one that can make healthcare in America better. And then because someone doesn’t agree with him, no matter what they think otherwise, they’re a “bad guy”. This is amongst many other issues I could raise with his comments; but won’t for length and sticking to the main point.
This is a nonstarter for debate or negotiation. Further, we can see now that a public option is politically not doable. So what then, nothing?
Well according to one of like minded temperament, and ideology, Howard Dean, yes. If ultra-liberals can’t have their way, then nothing; and I guess all those suffering can just go suck on it:
I broke down the fallacies of his argument in a previous post.
Dean has repeated a number of times since I recorded this video in August of 2009 that if there is a bill without his public option in it, that congressional democrats should kill the bill. Doesn’t matter what the bill does to benefit the people, he doesn’t care; it’s his bill or no bill. It appears that he has many ideological twins in the House of Representatives who are bent on doing just that.
If no healthcare reform passes it wont be because of the Republicans wishing Obama and the Democrats a loss at all cost; it’ll be because the far Left in Congress killed it.
The “no healthcare reform” Right’s best allies are the far Left. And this is how nothing continually gets done.
On another note:
Countries with single payer healthcare systems are having their own various problems depending on the particular construct of the different systems (there is no 1 system); including significantly rising healthcare cost for some of the older ones, in which they are facing near future problems in paying for it. Nothing is a magical fix, everything depends.
How The Healthcare Debate Is Poisoned By Both The Left & The Right Fringes, Part 1
Healthcare Debate Dominated By The Extremes: Nothing For The Majority In The Middle
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