By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
President Obama’s healthcare plan, now vetted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is the spawn of Republican reactionaries, based on the principle that people should pay for their own bodily maintenance. It bears no resemblance to world-class healthcare systems, expanding the healthcare compact only for those who are destitute, while turning everyone else into profit-centers for corporations. Obama has locked in the past, and put up a roadblock to the future – just as the right-wingers that invented the “individual mandate” intended.
I grow more and more fuggin weary of the ‘Playa v. Hater’ binary most of us are pushed into when we talk about Obama and...