Because I'm so mindboggled by this whole health care reform situation, I decided to post a community conversation from Feministing.com to share my thoughts:
Health Care Open Thread - Feministing
Much of the comments in the open thread is how I feel about the change at the moment - it's a mixture of both yay and nay. Yay because of change. Nay because I'm not sure it's adequate change. Is this truly a socialist move, aimed at redistributing power via access to health care more equally amongst all? Or is this just another capitalist vendetta that will privilege some individuals and corporations over others and simply masquerading as equality? I don't know. I really don't. It's hard to navigate at this point, and maybe that was the intention - maybe it was intended to filabuster forever and change a million times and for politicians to change their stances so that the average amerikkkan won't have a clue what we're all getting shoved into. It's exciting to see this happen, but it's scary that we don't know what it means. So I'm on the fence. I'm on the fence because I have no idea what version passed because it changed so many times. I'm on the fence because I have no idea exactly what is covered and how it will play out - because no one really explained that part in the process. I'm on the fence because it looks like there is potential to funnel more money into private insurance and pharmaceutical companies. I'm on the fence because it seems that women's sexual health has been severely compromised in the deal. I'm on the fence because it's possible that this change won't do much to actually change the lives of the People it's intended to change.
Moral of the story = someone up on capitol hill needs to explain this to me and every other average person in this country so that we all may understand what happened and how it will work from cover to cover!
Then I can make my official yay or nay. Or perhaps this isn't so black and white...
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