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what i don't like about the bill: no public option. i do not understand how it is that access to basic health care is not a fundamental human right. it is understood that way in the rest of the industrialized world. only in the backwater of the united states is there a Problem with it.
last year 3.47 BILLION dollars were spent on lobbying congress. on health care, 1725 entities registered as being active in this area. initial numbers for outlay on this should be available 20 april. which brings me to the other thing i don't like about this bill: the nihilist strategy adopted by the ultra-right. the overwhelming role that corporate money has played in the disinformation campaign that has people like pan convinced that exactly the opposite of what's in the bill is in fact the case. persuading the gullible of this is expensive it seems.
what i like about it: the subsidizing of basic health care insurance for those who cannot afford it.
the extension of the definition of child to 26 as a recognition of a shitty job climate that's unlikely to change any time soon.
elimination of pre-existing condition restrictions.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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