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If Obama's election night was a rising up of America's better nature, his triumph in healthcare reform was a victory after years of Republican obstructionism. Ours is an essentially good-hearted nation, but so deeply divided that wedge issues can decide a campaign outcome. When I've blogged in favour of universal healthcare, I've been stunned not so much by the vitriol of comments against it, but by the ignorance. The same lies and wild rumours, gleaned from far-right sites, are repeated mindlessly.
I spent months between 2006 and 2009 in hospitals receiving treatment for cancer of the mandible. I had four scheduled surgeries, several emergency surgeries, and went through four physical rehabilitations after tissue was moved here and there on my poor harvested frame. I received excellent care. I had good employer health insurance. Otherwise we would have been wiped out. None but the very rich can afford to get seriously ill in America and hope to pay for it themselves.
Yet opponents of reform were selfish: why should they pay for those too stupid, lazy, etc, to provide for themselves? They feared government would control healthcare. What did they think insurance companies were doing? The day of the vote was surrealistic, exposing the unwholesome underpinnings of the anti-Obama Tea Party movement. Forming a gauntlet for congressmen to run, demonstrators shouted the n-word and spat at black congressmen. I doubt Sarah Palin will choose to speak at their next convention.
Now Republicans face the destruction of their party over their stonewalling against reform. Bush's speechwriter David Frum blogged: "It's hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. We followed the most radical voices in the party, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat. "
Those radical voices coined the term "Obamacare." So it will long be known.
Thanks for the article.Penelope wrote:This was in our paper (Comments Section): I thought it was a rather good summing-up.
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Priceless.johnson1010 wrote:It seems any nitwit should be able to call a turd a turd upon cursory glance, but they keep managing to polish that turd until it looks like the philosopher's stone to the herd-minded.
Countries with universal health care are clearly under a better system than ours. I have health care now, but not very good coverage. When i get hurt or sick, i don't go to the hospitol. I walk it off. That is not good policy or practice.Yeah, and where does the government get off insisting that you take care of your kids? Or force you to educate them? How dare they demand your money to pay for the roads you use!can't see how the government can force people to buy health care. isn't that like the governement making everyone buy a new car? and also, i don't see how its fair to tax the rich more so the poor can have health care.
Wait, these sentences need more exclamation points.
Yeah, and where does the government get off insisting that you take care of your kids?!!?!!!?!?!!!!?!
That should be more understandable.
I definitely agree though. Upsettingly, disturbingly, rich people really should just get to keep all that money and use it more wisely. How in hell is “Super Sweet Sixteen” going to stay on the air if the flabby desk jockey golf addicts who spend over two hundred thousand dollars on their kid’s birthday parties have already spent that money getting quality affordable health care to their employees? These CEO’s only make three hundred times more than their average worker after all. One day of them sitting behind a desk, or tooling around in their private jets is worth more than an entire years worth of their employee’s hard work, as we all know.
You will be surprised when none of your doomsday horror stories come to pass. Or maybe not, if you are really as jingoistic as you appear to be from these posts. Whatever you do, don’t be nice to anybody who looks like they might be a dirty foreigner. They will steal your job.Yep, funny how the libs just ignore that...but wait, once we lose more money, jobs and force people to choose shitty healthcare over what they want, then we'll see "how good this really is" and not only that but you and me will also be paying for random peoples abortions...how lovely huh? lol more like how stupid...