Just as he promised in his election campaign, Donal Trump is busy dismantling Obama's legacy piece by destructive piece. He has appointed someone to head the EPA (Environmetal Protection Agency) who has repeatedly sued that organisation on behalf of big business, or big polluters you could say. He has isolated Cuba once again, just when bridges were being rebuilt between those two nations after 50 years of hatred and mistrust. And now, worst of all, he is seeking to destroy "Obamacare" in a move which will deprive 22 million Americans of health care by 2020.
I was watching Fox News the other day, where "Obamacare" is a dirty word (it's just as well to learn how the enemy are thinking, after all) and one of their contributors was saying that this move will allow these people now to have "some choice" in how they access health care. What choice is he talking about? These 22 million Americans are among the poorest members of society: what choice do they really have? Somewhere between crap health care or, more likely, no health care at all. American middle class voters, apparently, think this is fine. Why should they pay for someone else's health care? Yet they pay for other people's education through their taxes. What's the difference? True, a lot of people in the US don't like paying taxes, just like some of our ultra-hard Brexiteers whose grand plan is to turn the UK into a low tax, low welfare haven like a larger version of the Cayman Islands.
Americans come from a frontier mentality, where people fended for themselves and anyone who couldn't went under. That mentality is now applied to healthcare, though not to education. But, I would ask them, what use is a good, state funded education if your health isn't good enough to take advantage of it? What's the difference guys?
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