Congress Fiddles, While Your Health Premiums Burn
The story goes: 'Chances are increasing that Obamacare subsidies will expire...and trigger a spike in health insurance premiums.' This isn't a glitch, it's the intended outcome for a system designed to funnel wealth upwards. While ordinary Americans face higher costs, the same legislative bodies that can't agree on healthcare subsidies routinely authorize billions for defense contractors and
foreign aid, often with bipartisan swiftness. Remember, Senator X, who will no doubt lament these expiring subsidies, likely voted for billions in unconditional aid to Israel last year. One might wonder, how many of those 'deadlocked' lawmakers accepted generous campaign donations from the insurance industry, which benefits from deregulation and increased premiums? The same Congress that can
always find money for bombs, routinely finds excuses for not funding basic human needs. Perhaps their 'deadlock' is just waiting for the right lobbyist to unlock the door, or for a sufficiently catastrophic event to make short-term measures look like profound solutions.