Pelosi’s comments yesterday made my head explode. I’ve always respected her toughness, but her literal resignation — we’ve chosen another path on healthcare — that single payer is entirely off the table has me wanting to storm the capital with an army sick pre-schoolers, whose parents are forced to decide between food or health INSURANCE, new shoes or health INSURANCE, a safe home or health INSURANCE.
The above breakdown comes from Kiplinger www.kiplinger.com/…. It is based on a presumed $35k annual income, of which 27.5% is consumed in taxes and payroll deductions:
Go that? See that “take home” of $2,113 month? Now add up the percentages from the breakdown and what number do you get? I get 100%. Forget for a moment that these numbers are ridiculously low, notice anything missing, both from the breakdown and the taxes? Maybe health “insurance,” and maybe actual healthcare costs, like deductibles and co-pays? I don’t see them anywhere. Do you?
Now realize that just this morning a person being interviewed on NPR about the looming ACA signup cut off date, tells us 30 million are still uncovered and that families have a tough choice, accept that 10% of income will go to healthcare INSURANCE or accept the increasing federal penalty.
But wait a minute? 10%? On gross or net? But what about costs for actual care? What’s THAT additional percentage? Another 10% maybe?
But wait another fucking minute...Kiplinger tells us above that 100% of our income is already consumed — 100% — so where’s this 10% for INSURANCE, much less care, supposed to come from? Oh, I see, it must come from that 10% “savings” line item.
NEWSFLASH PELOSI ET AL!! The money ain’t there goddamn it.
So all you blathering pundits, so shocked that Bernie is getting the traction he is, is ain’t rocket science. No, it’s fucking grade school math. WE ARE FUCKING BROKE PAYING FOR TOTALLY USELESS SHIT AND THEN WE LEARN OUR INEVITABLE CANDIDATE EARNED $2.8M GIVING SPEECHES TO THE SAME HEALTH INDUSTRY IN 3 YEARS THAT’S BEEN ROBBING US BLIND AND YOU WANT US TO HOLD OUR NOSES AND SUPPORT HER?
And Rep. Pelosi, how dare YOU TOO imply our aspirations for sanity and humane healthcare access -- single payer — reflects some utopian wish for ponies and unicorns.
It’s Bernie or Bust, because we are flat busted and have zero patience left.