{"id":513241,"date":"2010-04-04T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T18:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=34308"},"modified":"2010-04-04T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T18:42:22","slug":"is-obamacare-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/513241","title":{"rendered":"Is Obamacare Republican?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Anthony Gregory<\/p>\n

The corporatist aspect of it anyway, the propping up of the insurance industry — which is why that industry was behind Obama and Pelosi’s socialist scheme — has long been a pro-big business, Republican proposal. Romneycare, “free-market” thinktanks, and the health insurance lobby all supported versions of Obamacare. See Jon Walker at firedoglake<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, progressives and left-liberals need to acknowledge another side to this: This was always inevitable. More government intervention in a mixed economy is always corporatist, always moving us toward fascism, not a socialist dream. This is because the socialist dream is itself an illusion. In all economic systems, there are private interests and some who profit more than others. Full-blown communism is the worst possible system, as far as the common man is concerned, but thank goodness it’s not really attainable — however, the more a state tries to force it, the more civilization itself is destroyed from in the inside out (see Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot et al.). Meanwhile, anything short of total socialism is quasi-fascist, as some connected private interests benefit at the expense of the victimized taxpayers and subjects of the regime.<\/p>\n

The free market is the only economic system known to man that respects the rights of the individual and can provide the masses with ever increasing opportunity and material wealth and access to the basic needs, as well as to an expanding array of luxury items. While Obamacare is indeed a corporatist scam, rather than a pure public-sector boon for the common man, the latter is an impossibility. All big-government operations in America — the Progressive era, the New Deal, the Great Society, Compassionate Conservatiam and Obamanomics — are corporatist. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Anthony Gregory The corporatist aspect of it anyway, the propping up of the insurance industry — which is why that industry was behind Obama and Pelosi’s socialist scheme — has long been a pro-big business, Republican proposal. Romneycare, “free-market” thinktanks, and the health insurance lobby all supported versions of Obamacare. See Jon Walker at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}