I have been spending the past week trying to digest all the details of the three proposed versions of the Health Care Bill. Yep, you heard that right, there are three versions that will have to be merged into one. So far, the proposed options are a little fuzzy. However, I can tell you this much:
1. Dr. Kevorkian will not go into training others to come after your parents and/or grandparents under the cover of night to keep the health care cost down… unless you want him to.
2. There is no pet option. That’s right, your furry family members will not be covered… except for your husbands or your wives who are against shaving. (ick)
3. You do not have to give up your current health care plan. If you enjoy dumping a ton of money on your current plan, the government is not going to stop you.
4. Your Congressman will not have to give you permission to see a doctor. Nor will a postal worker, the President, or any other civil servant. It will be between you and your doctor when it comes to scoring those Vicodin pills.
5. You will not have to pay more in taxes in order for everyone to have access to affordable health care… unless you’re Oprah. If you are Oprah, I just want to say, “hi” and thanks for selecting our President. Please, continue to pick them every four years… as long as it’s not Dr. Phil. He annoys me.
6. Now that she’s unemployed, even Sarah Palin will have health care so she can live another day to kill those poor animals up in Alaska. Even the idiots need protection… unfortunately.
7. Insurance companies will not be able to drop you when you start having serious medical issues… like cancer or if you are in need of a transplant. It’s a novel sort of idea, isn’t it?
8. Preexisting conditions will be covered… just keep in mind that stupidity cannot be fixed… like the dude who screwed the horse in South Carolina, after making it with the same horse a year ago.
9. Nobody is going force you to abort your fetus and use it for stem cell research.
Now folks, there are a lot of crazy rumors going around about how Universal Health Care is going to be total shit. However, let me ask you this: If you’re someone who cannot afford health insurance and you are in great need of medical attention, would you rather have something or nothing?
Having the access to health care should not be a fucking privilege in this country. I have great fucking health care… and I have the deductions in my paychecks to prove it. However, I am no more entitled to health care than anyone else in this country. Hell, if anything my premiums will go down. Please contact your Congressmen and let them know that we need a health care bill without the bullshit. Insurance companies might donate to their campaigns, but we’re the ones who vote them into office.
Filed under: political morsel | Tagged: Universal Health Care
I agree, when did our country decide that health care was a privilege…probably around the same time that insurance companies took our health care system hostage (just a guess). We cannot claim to be the “greatest nation on earth” while our citizens die of preventable and curable illness due to inability to access health care.
Dr. Kevorkian is not going to off Grandma? Well, shit, I’m against it then, that crazy bitch is just making everyone’s life miserable. And, at 90, she is healthier than I am.
That was supposed to be funny, because I am witty AND because it is either laugh or cry. I fought with my brother (who has not insurance) for an hour last week. He says he could have insurance IF he had made different choices, it is the choices he has made that have left him without insurance, just as it is the choices others make that leave them without insurance. He needs mental help.
It is a sad place we are in.
Hi D,
very sad, as the insurance companies spend 1.4 million $ a day to put out lies and use scare tactics on elderly people. Our priorities are seriously fucked up.
I don’t know what’s worse – the scare tactics or the idiots who believe that our president wants to kill old people.
You are all right on…….as I’ve been posting, the insurance companies are going overboard, with finances and disrupting informational health care meetings…….the question that I’ve put out there is basically…..what are we going to do about it, and how can we fight and win this time??
We have these conservative republicans who have Government run Insurance programs telling every one that
a Government plan for the rest of us is Socialism.
It is time for Liberal groups like Move On etc. to start showing up at these meetings and shout them down.
Where ever Michelle Maulkin, Ann Coulter, Hannity or any of their ilk is, we need to be there booing the hell out of them.
Give them their own treatment.