In the middle of a pandemic
AMY GOODMAN: Finally, 10 seconds, Laurie. Today, the Supreme Court takes up the Affordable Care Act. Tens of millions of people, if they vote to eviscerate it, to take it down, could lose their healthcare in the midst of this pandemic. Your comment?
LAURIE GARRETT: Well, obviously, that would be dreadful, horrible, awful. And none of those people would have the financial wherewithal to turn to another source to get healthcare. This has implications not just for them, the individuals and their families, but for everybody they have contact with. And so, in a way, we’re committing mass suicide. This is an incredibly self-destructive thing for American people to do, to deny healthcare to millions of Americans in the middle of a pandemic and leave them on their own to potentially carry disease forward into the community, into their workplaces, and so on, without any treatment, any help, any assistance. That’s just insane.
Insane R Us.
I hope all the poor people that get sick are working for rich assholes in gated communities, in close personal contact with them. And that the poor people who get sick are asymptomatic, or have only the most minor of symptoms, and no after effects.
Of course, that isn’t going to happen that way. In a just world, or if there was a just God, that is exactly what would happen. Of course, if the world (or god) were just, only rich people would get sick with anything.
Ikn, if the world were a meritocracy, Trump would be languishing in a filthy trailer park somewhere. I think actual justice would be more harsh.
It occurs to me that I just posted a long comment on today’s ACA hearing in another thread, because another commenter made a reference to it. Probably should have put it here. Anyway, I think there’s a good chance the ACA survives, for reasons blathered on about elsewhere.
Your blather is highly useful and educational.