Affordable Health Care Act: The Con Side

It's time to Break It Down!

In last week’s post I explored the pro side of Health Care Reform.  Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health & Human Services, contributed an editorial in The Washington Post in which she laid bare key criticisms about the Affordable Health Care Act, complete with refuting evidence.

While I seldom do companion pieces the following week, a well-constructed pro position warrants an equally cogent and powerful con perspective.  As fate would have it, a close personal friend of mine dropped a cartoon in my e-inbox yesterday afternoon that virtually wrote today’s post for me.

To set it up, Editorial Cartoonist Stuart Carlson calls this brilliant six-cel cartoon which he published October 4, 2010, simply, “I like it, or not!”  The Cartoon has appeared in a number of publications, including DemocraticUnderground.com (March-April, 2012). 

He opens artfully, with a gruff character voicing expression of the complete an utter disdain that so many Americans profess for Obamacare; he saliently and powerfully closes with the character confessing the obvious point that drives so many to oppose the law that has now passed Constitutional muster as determined by the U.S. Supreme Court...Obama hate! 

In between, in cels 2-4, the character is guided by a completely different spirit.  Upon direct questioning, he replies that he likes and finds various elements of the law good; even great.

In the midst of this raucous irony lies the irrefutable conundrum that defines the con side of this argument.  Allow me to hasten to add, my narrative in no way does justice to the bare-knuckled wit in which Mr. Carlson cloaks this much discussed subject.  It is for that reason, of course, I invite you to view the cartoon for yourself: http://www.carlsontoons.com/i-like-it-or-not/.

There is more that could be said; but why?  The cartoon really says all that needs to be said.  It really does summarize aptly, "Affordable Health Care Act: The Con Side!"

A big up shout out to my friend and Frat, LA, for facilitating what may be my BPE (Briefest Post Ever).  I'm done; holla back!

Read my blog anytime by clicking the link: http://thesphinxofcharlotte.blogspot.com. A new post is published each Wednesday. For more detailed information on a variety of aspects relating to this post, consult the links below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Carlson

http://www.carlsontoons.com/i-like-it-or-not/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125126820

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Health_Care_for_America_Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Sebelius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Underground

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/opinion/keller-five-obamacare-myths.html?pagewanted=all