Just adding to the pile of hate: Healthcare Bill Seeks to Preempt State Laws (Los Angeles Times). Feministe sums up the key points nicely:

— Eliminate state requirements for insurance coverage for breast, cervical, colorectal, and prostate cancer screenings; well-child care and immunizations; prescription contraception; emergency services; mental health care; diabetes supplies and education; and many other critical health services.

— Deny states the right to regulate the insurance industry to ensure that consumers’ needs are met.

— Put insurance companies, not health professionals, in charge of your health care.

— Raise insurance premiums, making health care unaffordable for those who need it most: women, the sick, and the elderly, whose health care costs are usually higher.

— Fail to address the problem of rising health care costs, which is what really plagues struggling employers.

Yet again I’m left asking myself why the fuck I keep voting. I believe in the notion that it is a privilege and a duty but for fuck’s sake it is NOT a representative system unless of course you are some bloated corporation looking to hoard even more resources for yourself.

Shitty Monday morning.