The Administration’s decision to pull the plug on long-term health insurance in the new healthcare law (so-called Community Living Assistance Services and Support or, as it was known by healthcare insiders, CLASS) offers an important lesson.
As written, the law had three incompatible parts.
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“marriage in general is not a healthy institution in our society. If people want civil rights, then that’s what I feel we should be fighting for. Couples, people who are each other’s kin or primary intimacies, a friend who takes care of a friend for 30 years in the same household—all should have basic civil rights.
To bring that whole movement for social justice under the rubric of ‘gay marriage’ seems to me just to reinforce patriarchal notions of who is worthy of care and support. It also lets down the gay people who don’t want to be married.
The movement for gay marriage has had a strong push among very class-privileged people, because they are the people with trusts and with property and with health care. If you’re gay, black, poor and you don’t have any access to insurance, the question of whether your partner can be included on your insurance is not just relevant to the health needs of your life. What would be more relevant is national health care!?”
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“On October 12th, 2010 a few comedians took to the stage with one mission: to read from the Health Care Reform Bill without allowing the audience to nod off. Translation: See for yourself. Comedian credits: Marc Maron, Leslie Jones, Al Madrigal, Asif Ali. Comedy club: The Laugh Factory, Los Angeles.”
I love satire, I love comedians, and daymit, I love having health care (whodda thunk, eh?) Marc Maron is the biz, mainstream just finding out now. I will have a #hipstermoment & say “I was listening to him before anyone else thought he was cool.” (I’m talkin to you NYT!).
Mad love for WTFpod.
