NYT: In Health Care Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality

[Top Cat]

For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear: The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/live/countdown-to-reform-wire/



edit- It's about time that All Americans have a chance at the same privileges in health care. Yeah

[NJmaverick]

1. It's about time the playing field got a bit of leveling

[Top Cat]

2. Yes We Can!! and Yes We Did!!!!!!

[mstinamotorcity]

3. Personally I feel that

this is what the health care reform debate has been all about in the first place.For the status quo to keep more of their money.People who make over two hundred thousand dollars a year don't want to compromise the repeal of the Bush tax cuts. Remember that is what he thought middle class was.:dunce: We knew better.That is why repugs and Insurance companies framed their message around, it would destroy the doctor patient relationship and increase the size of government.And that it will cost too much money that will come out of your pockets. When everybody knows that sick people cost way more to treat after they get sick than before they get sick. A healthy nation brings a more productive one.:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Top Cat]

5. Preventative care is very important.

[Oregone]

4. But it reinforces the correlation between quality of care and wealth

And uses the capitalistic system to continue to ration and deliver care, which disproportionally rewards the wealthy and contributes to disparity

I'm not exactly sure if "attacks" is the right word here. In terms of accuracy, this is what I call a "bronze" article, that is less than 60% accurate and couldn't buy its way out of oblivion

[HughMoran]

9. I like eggs!

[HughMoran]

10. bbbbut! bbbbut!! bbbut!!!

:P

[Inuca]

6. One important reason the bill is so important

For all the political and economic uncertainties about health reform, at least one thing seems clear: The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.

Over most of that period, government policy and market forces have been moving in the same direction, both increasing inequality. The pretax incomes of the wealthy have soared since the late 1970s, while their tax rates have fallen more than rates for the middle class and poor.

Nearly every major aspect of the health bill pushes in the other direction. This fact helps explain why Mr. Obama was willing to spend so much political capital on the issue, even though it did not appear to be his top priority as a presidential candidate. Beyond the health reform’s effect on the medical system, it is the centerpiece of his deliberate effort to end what historians have called the age of Reagan.

[Phx_Dem]

7. And Bush's tax cuts benefitted the wealthy inequally. So now we're even.

[mstinamotorcity]

8. Nope we are not even

But we are trying to play catch up i just hope we don't run out of mustard.:hi: :hi: :hi:

[Phx_Dem]

12. I stand corrected.

Not even close to being "even."

:fistbump:

[optimator]

11. yeah, forcing poor people to buy crap they can't afford

great way to "attack inequality"