A black associate professor
blames ‘southern white radicals’ for Obamacare debacle“[S]outhern White radicals vowed to stop implementation of the Obama-care law leading one to wonder if Tea Party members would oppose affordable healthcare if it came from a nonBlack [sic] President,” writes Browne-Marshall."
And,
"It’s not clear how Browne-Marshall reasoned her way to the conclusion that “southern White radicals” derailed Obamacare. As College Insurrection notes, a CNN poll conducted just before Christmas shows that 62 percent of Americans oppose the president’s signature legislation."
More than 4.7 million Americans have had their health insurance cancelled as a result of the massive new healthcare regime. At the same time, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday that, between federal and state exchanges, just 2 million Americans have signed up for Obamacare coverage. (RELATED: It’s official: Obamacare debuts with more cancelled plans than enrollments)
From the
Race Law Society:
Ms. Browne-Marshall is an Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and the Graduate Center where she teaches Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, and Evidence and is a member of the Gender Studies faculty. She has published articles on racial justice in the field of education as well as book chapters on international criminal tribunals and the rights of female inmates living with HIV/AIDS. She is a Civil Rights attorney who has litigated cases on behalf of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.. She is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc..
4 comments:
Remind me, who pushed through Obamacare? It wasn't "southern whites," that's for certain.
A racial minority female - that's a two-fer for academia, especially in the Gender Studies department.
I'm a Southern white and voted FOR Obama in 2008. The consensus of my family was (is?) that I was temporarily insane. I think: NOT.
In spite of Obama's leftist track record (which was more difficult to uncover than it should have been, due to media malfeasance), he was a first-term Senator. McCain was a long-time Potomac KoolAid drinker, who had a proven track record of leftist voting. I "hoped" that at least some of Obama's rhetoric indicated a genuine desire to NOT be just another Washington politician, promising anything and everything to get votes. Alas, it turned out that my "hope" was misplaced. there was no "change" but just "business as usual" for Washington politicians: tell any lie as long as it gets you votes.
The amorphous (im)morality of the Atheo-Leftists achieves full flower in Barack Obama. Obviously, I paid insufficient attention to Stan's repeated warning that Atheo-Leftists can never be trusted in what they say because of their continually shifting, "evolving" moral positions.
Part II:
"If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan - period." Even John Kerry would have a hard time finding a "deeply nuanced" interpretation of that oft repeated statement that would make it something other than a bald-faced lie.
I'm 65 years old; my wife is 59. I've had a vasectomy; she's had a complete hysterectomy. Our children are all over the age of 26 years old. (We even have one great grandchild, for goodness sakes.) Can anyone rationally explain WHY we MUST have maternity and pediatric care as part of our health insurance plan?
We LIKED our health care plan, which was available through my employer. CIGNA (Starbridge) dropped the plan because it did NOT meet the requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare's "official" name). I have a letter from CIGNA stating that fact. My employer could not figure out what insurance (if any) it was going to offer to full-time employees until after the deadline mandated for individual signups. They recommended that each person go to HealthCare.gov and signup BUT that if we did sign up, the company would NOT provide any assistance, even if the company decided to offer a more expensive plan than was previously available through the company.
To give you some comparison facts:
My total monthly premiums for Starbridge was $350 per month; I do not know how much the company paid additionally. We got copays of $15 per doctor visit, drug benefits that paid for my wife's heart and osteoporosis medications, and at least 60% of all medical costs, up to a defined maximum for each type of medical procedure.
As a DIRECT result of ObamaCare, I HAD to switch to Medicare - because I am 65 years old, I am INELIGIBLE for ObamaCare. My BlueCross-Blue Shield supplemental plus Medicare is $120 per month. Sounds like a bargain, compared to Starbridge, right? Not so fast... my wife is NOT covered under this plan.
The cheapest plan that my wife has found so far (a Bronze plan) costs $475 per month. That plan provides NOTHING (no copay, no drug benefit, no procedure benefit, nada, zip, bupkiss) until we have paid out-of-pocket $5,000.
So, we are now paying $120 * 12 = $1440 yearly for me (at least we do get SOMETHING for that), plus at least $475 * 12 = $5700 yearly premiums plus $5000 for the deductible for my wife (without getting a DAMN thing for it for my wife).
For those math-challenged big government addicts like Ms. Browne-Marshall (whose math skills are probably as deficient as her grammatical skills), we have gone from $4200 per year with some benefits (ie, some of that comes back to us as reimbursement of expenses) to $12140 per year with NO benefit to my wife - period.
So the only possible "explanation" that our esteemed college professor can imagine for opposition to "AFFORDABLE" health care is "racism" on the part of "Southern white radicals"???
She is a damned idiot, and I'm trying to be nice.
Part III:
My youngest brother is a private "senior services" consultant. (That's a fancy way of saying that he helps people with Social Security, Medicare, an disability claims.) His oldest son works in his business, also as an expert on these things.
It took my nephew over 40 attempts to get signed up for his family. He was being "helped" by one of the "navigators". He has created at least 10 separate identities while trying to get signed up. On his last two attempts, he managed to get himself, his wife, and ONE of his twin daughters enrolled. He was informed that the other daughter was "ineligible" because of "problems" with her information. It seems it had something to do with her having the same birthday as her twin sister, who was born two minutes ahead of her. The "solution" proposed by the "navigator" was to start all over again, and enter the name of the one who was NOT covered as their child. So, he did that successfully, and then found out that the first daughter was no longer covered because she was now ineligible. In short, he cannot get BOTH of his daughters covered because of total stupidities in the HealthCare.gov programming. So far, he has found no workaround.
When you see government numbers for enrollees, consider that the actual number of individuals enrolled might not be as many as they think, based on typical scenarios like this one. There could be any number of double (triple, quadruple, ???) enrolles being counted.
BTW, my wife's medication just jumped from $120 per month to $200 per month. Is it even remotely possible that the jump in price "might" be related to "affordable" health care?!?
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