The Conservative lunatics are at it again with health care reform
July 25th, 2009
In this morning’s paper was a letter to the editor railing against the proposed health care reforms because “when the state pays for health care, the state gets to make decisions about who gets health care, and how much.” The author compared the current proposals to those of the Nazis and the Communists. Do I detect a trend here? Is this a Republican, Conservative, right-wing talking point?
First, I would like to call attention to the fact that the above mentioned health programs were run by RIGHT-WING nut jobs, dictators and despots. These are the same type of people who think it’s perfectly okay to wiretap their citizens and imprison them indefinitely without charges.
This is what drives me crazy about the Republican party and the conservative movement. Given my druthers I would love to run scans on many of their brains to try to gain an understanding of how their twisted thinking originates. But of course, that is something the Right would command, and the Left would never seriously consider.
The same people who urged government involvement in the very private matter of the Terry Schiavo case are the same ones who mischaracterize the current plan as a government plot to intrude in our health care decisions. Seriously, what cluster of brain cells is firing?
My insurance company has the absolute right to determine what care I get and how much of it I am entitled to. They also determine what medicines I can be prescribed and what tests I get. You may have heard stories of women giving birth and being forced to leave the hospital in a matter of hours. And how about the women forced to leave the hospital after a mastectomy and dragging their drainage tubes behind them? Kicking people out of hospitals early is not the decision of the hospital or the physician. It’s purely at the behest of insurance companies.
My daughter was delivered via caesarian section. I moved and changed insurance companies a few years later and guess what was specifically excluded from that new policy for several years? Anything that might have resulted from or could possibly be blamed on that c-section.
My mother is on Medicare. Her government run health care program is exquisite. No one tells her what doctors to see or what level of care is permitted. Those decisions are made purely by my mother and her providers.
My husband served in the military many years ago and has VA. His government run health care is terrific. His doctors spend considerable time with him, and with their sophisticated record-keeping nothing is missed.
The utter failure in our current health care system is the insurance-based part of it. It doesn’t work. It’s overpriced. It’s inefficient. It’s corrupt. It’s flat out cruel.
What the hell are these Conservative and Republican idiots talking about? Their arguments are pure “1984.” The rabbit hole. Lunacy.
If for no other reason than to actually force the insurance companies to compete, we need the public option.
Therefore, in the interest of what the editorial page letter writer referred to as the “collective,” I demand CT scans for all of those on the right who are making these specious arguments against government involvement. (And I also want to see their emails, bank records, telephone bills, employment histories, etc.)
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LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY. (Thomas Paine)
We have the 37th worst quality of healthcare in the developed world. Conservative estimates are that over 120,000 of you dies each year in America from treatable illness that people in other developed countries don’t die from. Rich, middle class, and poor a like. Insured and uninsured. Men, women, children, and babies. This is what being 37th in quality of healthcare means.
I know that many of you are angry and frustrated that REPUBLICANS! In congress are dragging their feet and trying to block TRUE healthcare reform. What republicans want is just a taxpayer bailout of the DISGRACEFUL GREED DRIVEN PRIVATE FOR PROFIT health insurance industry, and the DISGRACEFUL GREED DRIVEN PRIVATE FOR PROFIT healthcare industry. An insurance bailout is all you really get without a robust government-run public option available on day one.
These industries have been slaughtering you and your loved ones like cattle for decades for profit. Including members of congress and their families. These REPUBLICANS are FOOLS!
Republicans and their traitorous allies have been trying to make it look like it’s President Obama’s fault for the delays, and foot dragging. But I think you all know better than that. President Obama inherited one of the worst government catastrophes in American history from these REPUBLICANS! And President Obama has done a brilliant job of turning things around, and working his heart out for all of us.
But Republicans think you are just a bunch of stupid, idiot, cash cows with short memories. Just like they did under the Bush administration when they helped Bush and Cheney rape America and the rest of the World.
But you don’t have to put up with that. And this is what you can do. The Republicans below will be up for reelection on November 2, 2010. Just a little over 13 months from now. And many of you will be able to vote early. So pick some names and tell their voters that their representatives (by name) are obstructing TRUE healthcare reform. And are sellouts to the insurance and medical lobbyist.
Ask them to contact their representatives and tell them that they are going to work to throw them out of office on November 2, 2010, if not before by impeachment, or recall elections. Doing this will give you something more to do to make things better in America. And it will help you feel better too.
There are many resources on the internet that can help you find people to call and contact. For example, many social networking sites can be searched by state, city, or University. Be inventive and creative. I can think of many ways to do this. But be nice. These are your neighbors. And most will want to help.
I know there are a few democrats that have been trying to obstruct TRUE healthcare reform too. But the main problem is the Bush Republicans. Removing them is the best thing tactically to do. On the other hand. If you can easily replace a democrat obstructionist with a supportive democrat, DO IT!
You have been AMAZING!!! my people. Don’t loose heart. You knew it wasn’t going to be easy saving the World.
God Bless You
jacksmith — Working Class
Republican Senators up for re-election in 2010.
* Richard Shelby of Alabama
* Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
* John McCain of Arizona
* Mel Martinez of Florida
* Johnny Isakson of Georgia
* Mike Crapo of Idaho
* Chuck Grassley of Iowa
* Sam Brownback of Kansas
* Jim Bunning of Kentucky
* David Vitter of Louisiana
* Kit Bond of Missouri
* Judd Gregg of New Hampshire
* Richard Burr of North Carolina
* George Voinovich of Ohio
* Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
* Jim DeMint of South Carolina
* John Thune of South Dakota
* Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas
* Bob Bennett of Utah
Great article . Will definitely copy it to my blog.Thanks.
Great article . Will definitely apply it to my blog
I’ll take some of your suggestions and try to apply them.