Pig-trough Health Care on the GOP Docket

Why do the "fiscally conservative" Repubs who swept back into power this week want to foil implementation of the health reform law when it cuts the deficit and creates jobs - the very things they convinced the voting public that they stand for?

Oh, yeah. That's why. Fear, lies and populist pandering protects their corporate & military interests.

Was the public duped or do we really have a Populist movement in the US for continued economic inequalities that make the Gilded Age look like fun?

To answer that, we must first answer this: How strong will Liberals, Progressives and other equity-loving patriots fight for implementation of the health reform law? Flaws and all??

It takes a village and then some to fight the US free-market healthcare pig trough system of unequal illness creation. President Obama was able to open the steel door for change after 14 months of slogging through Blue Dog Dems and shameless lying Repubs to produce the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act. Progress from here is up to us. Again.

At least, after this Tuesday, we know what we're up against, and it's not just corporate power. It's worse: It's a public indifferent and hostile to the very concept of equality, hell-bent on fighting for unbridled Corporate power that segregates our society in a way that only the government used to be able to do.

What will Progressives do this year to keep the door open for more healthcare regulation, more governmental accountability, and more centralized control of our gluttonous healthcare non-system?

An equitable society depends on keeping that door open for more humane, structural changes to come - but only if New Mexico and the country realizes what we voted for this week.

First published on November 10, 201 on NMPolitics.net