moltz:

Just a thought, but if there was an affordable health care option then the people who didn’t want to work 30 or more hours a week wouldn’t have to and the people who need to work 30 or more hours a week would be able to.

The economy would be in better shape because people would be more able to pursue those wacky dreams and create things instead of toiling away as nameless corporate drones or in the service industry and, most importantly, everyone would be happier.

Except for a handful of insurance industry executives who wouldn’t be able to afford their fifth house and a collection of movement conservatives who think tax dollars should only go toward blowing up brown people.

Well, we wouldn’t want that, I guess.

Sssshhhh. Don’t let them know you’ve cracked the code.

Republican legislators’ opposition to public healthcare is not because their campaigns are funded by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. I mean, that’s part of it, but there’s a deeper reason that healthcare has been tied to employment since World War II, and in fact you can trace basically every conservative policy back to the same simple motivation: cheap labor.

Conservatives don’t advertise this, of course, because they don’t want you to see that all their sails are rigged to one hateful, ugly mast.