Vote for the goddamned healthcare bill, or you guys are gone.
Seriously.
Addendum: (stolen via Pryme):
"Here are the words that were used most frequently by the 45 percent of the country who would tell their Congressman to vote for the health care bill:"
"And here are the words used most commonly by the 48 percent of the country who would tell their Congressman to vote against it:"
There's more information in the article I got the images (and their descriptions) from. The thing I note most the largest word of all is the word "people", as in "we the". Seems appropriate for the United States. The largest word on the "con" side is "government", which is interesting considering that the anti-health care people are also (supposedly) anti-government (except when they are running it, of course).
Okay, that's it for this post, I've wasted too many words on the subject already.
Du-addendum: Okay, once more with feeling -
if you spineless Democratic pussies cant show that you have the balls to lead, you can kiss your two per cent margin of victory goodbye.
And that's all it'll take to return us to the party of Bush.
6 comments:
PREACH IT BROTHER!
I second that!
Wow. I've been MIA for just a little while, and missed all of this!
hey dave
let's discuss clustfuckery, you and i. many of your observations concerning the bush II years are not without merit, but not all. alas that is better left to another comment.
let's get back to clustfuckery. i am one of the few who has actually read all 2000 pages of the health reform and patient affordability legislation. this bill is clustfuckery at it's best. the very people this bill claims to protect, the seniors and less fortunate will be in time, the worst hurt. the president, the speaker of the house, leader of the senate, all staunch advocates of this legislation tout the things they think the people want to hear, but side step those portions that will not only reduce the quality of care, but make it more expensive to boot.
did you know the bill places a tax on the manufacturers and providers of medical equipment? this cost will eventually be passed on to the consumer.
did you know that this bill mandates the individual states to add millions to their medicare roles? unknown to many is that it is the states, not the federal government that bares the brunt of these cost. this accounts to the tune of 20-30% of each states budget.It only stands to reason this will leave less resources for other services the states provide, most noteably education, and various services provided to those in need. less resources will be available to be returned to municipalities, monies that are distributed as grants to various not for profit charitable organizations.
did you know this bill places a tax on those most able to create jobs? with unemployment at 9.7. this should be of concern.
i could go on and on, but don't take my word. read the bill. i am sure you will agree in it's present form, the bad far outweighgs the good.
reform is needed. the current system of delivering health care is unsustainable, but true clustfuckery is making things worse, and then lying about it
Wow, someone needs healthcare reform because the private sector sure ain't helping with their medication.
Oh, I know it's a piece of shit. It's a big fat gimme to the insurance companies, who should have been handed their asses after years of parasitism. Unfortunately, because the GOP has managed to whip up a lot of fear about "socialism", we cant get a sensible system.
At it's root, the American health care system has two major obsticles to any sensible reform:
1. Insurance companies form a parasitic layer of profit-making in the middle and return no gain to the system at all. If anyone can tell me what the insurance industry adds to the equation aside from the nebulous "avoiding big government" crock of bullshit, I'd love to hear it.
2. Hospitals and doctors get paid on the basis of each individual thing they do for you. Period. Until doctors (and hospitals) get paid a regular salary that doesnt depend on how many procedures they do, there is no way to lower costs.
What's needed is a system where payments to the medical system dont go up or down depending on how much care doctors decide to give you, and there isnt a company in the middle of everything whose profits depend on how much care to deny you.
Personally, I wouldve just imposed a tax of say, 1% (or something like that) on everyone's income and on capital gains, too, (and maybe on payroll to boot - and whatever else it took to drum up the right amount) then set up a system that expanded the VA to cover everyone for free.
Anyone who wanted to stick with their current insurance would be free to do so. Yes, there probably would be rationing under Government Care, but I also had the crazy idea that insurance companies could sell insurance to cover people for catastrophic illness (leaving run of the mill health-care for Govermnent Care). Such illness would be clearly spelled out (cancer coverage, for example, or alzhiemers), and would return insurance to its proper business, which is spending a small(er than the current) amount on the gamble that we'll need it (and insurance charging us the same on the gamble that we wont).
Unfortunately, we're going to need at least another decade of ridiculous growth in the profits of insurance companies before anything like that happens which is exactly what would have happened anyway, only this way at least most people can get sick and be covered.
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