Saturday, August 01, 2015

In question after a prepared speech Bush hatred of Obamacare.

Bush had nothing constructive to say. He advocated an economy that would result in four percent growth by re-perfusion of the old Bush economy. The old Bush economy never solved any minority problems before, why would revisiting it perform differently.

..."I don't think you can credibly (click here) say that everyone has a right to rise and then say you're for phasing out Medicare or repealing Obamacare," Clinton said. "People can't rise if they can't afford health care. They can't rise if the minimum wage is too low to live on. They can't rise if their governor makes it hard for them to get a college education and you cannot seriously talk about the right to rise and support laws that deny the right to vote."

Clinton also lamented the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Sandra Bland and ticked off statistics on African-Americans receiving disproportionately longer sentences than whites. Blacks are also three times more likely to be denied a mortgage loan than people who are white, she said.

"Race still plays a significant role in determining who gets ahead in America and who gets left behind," Clinton said. "And yes, while that's partly a legacy of discrimination that stretches back to the start of our nation, it is also because of discrimination that is still ongoing."...

As a matter of fact, the old Bush economy caused a profound loss of African American wealth in the USA.

But, to the questions of Bush after a prepared speech revealed sincere hatred of Obamacare. Bush stated, "Obamacare is using young people as a way to pay for healthcare insurance for older citizens like himself." That is an amazing statement. Bush assumes young Americans do not need health care. 

My children were covered under my health care insurance until they finished their college careers and had jobs of their own. One of the vital aspects of Obamacare is that is allows parents to claim their young people on their health care insurance until they are no longer a dependent due to college aspirations.

Many 20 somethings with a family can be eligible for Medicare. But, the need for health care by this American generation is more important than any other generation.

 July 14, 2015
...Many will get Medicaid coverage at virtually no cost. (click here) Others will qualify for private insurance at a fraction of the full premiums. And health plans offered under the law will limit individuals' out-of-pocket expenses to about $6,250 per year or less — a bulwark against gigantic, unexpected medical bills.

"It doesn't have to be cancer or a heart attack or even a bad car accident," said Karen Pollitz, a health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation whose own son needed $15,000 worth of surgery after he broke his wrist while skateboarding at age 20. "Once you show up in the ER (emergency room), it starts to cost you some money."

The plans also will cover at no charge preventive care such as HIV tests, screening for depression or alcoholism, flu shots, hepatitis vaccine, contraception and pregnancy care. And insurers will no longer be able to exclude or charge extra for people who already have health problems....

Twenty somethings are only beginning careers after college, without health care insurance they could lose a valuable early foothold to the promise of the middle class. Bankruptcy is the one reason that validates the need for all Americans to have healthcare insurance. This generation is no different. They have an advantage other generations never had, the right to pay reasonable costs for health insurance and health care.

There are still disadvantages to this generation of Americans in the cost of higher education and necessary loans. But, having health care is still an advantage to this generation of Americans. The US Congress needs to carry out a law for these Americans that address the unreasonable costs of college and the lasting damage to the American economy over daunting debt.

Congress has no right to state educational funding is an option and not a necessity to entrance to the middle class. The American people have witnessed the impoverishment of the country's former middle class. The American people have witnessed the loss of a good paying job to the high school graduate. Today, good jobs start at a Master's degree if one is lucky. There is much need for change in the USA that bring good paying jobs, period. 

The answer of reinfusing the Republican jobs paradigm is wayward at best. That paradigm has failed the American people time and again. It also provided rising costs of higher education and the demise of the public school system. There are many reasons to continue the education systems and economy that developed in local governments since 2008. The burgeoning trade agreements is a direct assault on the American middle class and local economies will remain intact and strong regardless of the foreign assault in these trade agreements.

You'll never hear "Repeal of trade agreements" by any Bush. But, the idea a four percent growth of the American economy can occur in a new world going forward is outrageous. Bush is seeing four percent growth with a return of the petroleum industry and expanding any opportunity for Wall Street wealth trough attacks on small business in local economies.

During his years as Florida's governor he trashed Affirmative Action and instilled his own brand of discrimination in a program entitled "One Florida." It delivered more enrollments to public universities and more tuition funding, but, it ends there except for small minority businesses. That would mean Florida graduates were stranded at the end of their education unless they had enough solvency to start a new small business.


December 13, 2009 
By Shannon Colavecchio
 
...The increasing diversity of Florida's 11 public universities (click here) has been fueled mostly by Hispanic enrollment — from 13.8 percent to 18 percent of total enrollment statewide — which reflects in part the changing demographics of the Sunshine State. 

Black enrollment offers a mixed picture: a statewide dip, from 14 percent to 13.6 percent, with increases at some universities and decreases at others. For example, the University of South Florida in Tampa went from 9.2 percent to 11.5 percent black enrollment while Florida International University in Miami dropped from 14.6 percent to 12.4 percent.... 

And the Florida Chamber of Commerce sounded a warning about falling opportunity in venture capital in Florida. So where all all those graduates going to begin a career that will result in upward movement in a middle class?

April 29, 2013
 
...Venture capital is often required (click here) for companies launching new technologies or starting unique business models. Recent data published by Pricewaterhouse Coopers Money Tree indicates that venture capital funds declined to approximately $11 million in the first quarter of 2013, a 35% decrease when compared to the first quarter of 2012. At the national level, venture capital declined only 6%. While recent data indicate a lack of venture capital funding for start-ups and expanding firms, it is important to note that particular industries did experience increases in venture capital funding. At the national level, the software, networking and equipment, and computer and peripherals industries all experienced an increase in venture capital funding of at least 30%....


So, while One Florida appears to have helped minorities into college, their aftermath on graduation is still reflecting those issues of the entire country. This American generation remains removed from the economic growth of the country because of educational debt. The educational debt continues to haunt young Americans and truncates their ability to enter the middle class in a meaningful way that would continue their upward movement into accumulating wealth.