Obamacare

THE DUST HAS SETTLED from the election, and we stand ready for four years of incessant complaining by conservatives and whining by conesrvative talk show hosts. The object of this complaining and whining will, to a certain extent, be foreign policy, but it will primarily be obamacare.

Conservatives seem to feel as if the united states should already have attacked iran, and that the U.S. should pledge unconditional and undying devotion to israel. Neither is gonna happen.

Obamacare, say conservatives, is a socialistic and bureaucratic nightmare which is far too complicated, expensive, and will fail to accomplish its primary purpose; making health insurance available and affordable for all americans.

And this may indeed be true; we'll have to wait and see, while we watch obamacare being implemented and taking effect. It may be that free market health care is far better, but how will we ever know?

What we have in america is not at all free market health care. What we have is a corporate oligarchy in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, in which the few giant players simply work together to maintain price supports.

Insurance and pharmaceutical companies should be competing like taco bell and wendy's. But they don't do anything of the sort, because they don't have to. Why should they? Better to work together to foster industry profits.

Let's double the number of doctors, and get some real, honest competitive capitalistic health care in america, and see whether it is, after all, preferable to socialism. For the time being, we seem to be trying socialism.