So I come home from the store and turn the channel to CNN for a few minutes were I learn that we might just be hours away from a health-care reform bill. They show part of a speech from Nancy Pelosi praising the bill, and then a little bit of a speech from some Republican denouncing it with the same old tired argument that we’ll be taking away the ability of doctors to make decisions. To this, I have one thing to say
STOP SAYING THAT!!!
First of all, the doctor can prescribe whatever drugs or treatment he or she wants and a government run health-care plan may or may not pay for it.
THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENS UNDER PRIVATELY RUN INSURANCE!!!
I have some concerns about health-care reform, and I believe that there are legitimate criticisms, but I hate it when people use lies to try and defeat a bill.
Oh, and since this is the pit, fuck, shit, damn, hell, and ass.
They’re afraid that the government plan will become mandatory or drive private health insurance plans out of business, and then the government plan won’t approve treatments that private plans would have approved.
They have, and will continue to, say any crazy thing that they think will scare their base and get people angry. The reason is, the health care bill was the only thing they focused on for the last six months, it’s defeat was their #1 legislative agenda, and they are going to fail. Remember when Jim DeMint said “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
And they’ve failed.
Before they said these things because they thought it would derail the bill. They’ll continue to say these things to deflect attention from their utter failure.
How do you define health care? If the government has a duty to protect us from foreign attacks, and the attackers are using biologic weapons, then is the government providing health care?
My understanding of a troll is somebody who says things they don’t believe in order to get a reaction. Let’s look at my OP:
Fact - There are people who say that health-care reform will interfere with a doctor’s ability to treat his or her patients.
Fact - It is my opinion that this is bullshit.
Fact - One of the reasons for the Pit is to rant about what upsets you, and this particular anti health-care reform argument upsets me.
So nothing I have said is bullshit, and I didn’t just say it for a reaction. So if you’re going to accuse me of being a troll, either put up, or shut up.
I already asked him before, he pulled that argument out of his ass.
70+ years of Medicare and not a single successful challenge to the supreme court against the idea that the federal government has no authority on a plan.
“The federal government has the authority to legislate a health insurance mandate under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution.”
I agree that, if health insurance companies functioned largely to the benefit of their participants, then leaving the specifics of legislation to the individual states would be preferable. But, these companies have a long and large track record of being complete assholes. And not just statistical not-every-plan-works-for-every-case assholes, but manipulative, back-peddling jerks of the highest order. The states have been in a position to tweak this for a long time and have gotten no where meaningful.
This is why there is all this talk about allowing states to opt out. Of course then the people in the opt-out states will find out that they are ruled by guys that agree with the assholes.
It seems to me that those politicians do know how stupid they will look if they opt-out, it will look like the spectacle of the republican governors refusing stimulus money only to have the state congress critters (even in conservative states!) ignoring the governors. US Republican congresscriters will do and say very underhanded things to stop the reform, they already know that later confronting and justifying their opt-out position to the people that are suffering under the current system will be political suicide as they will demonstrating that they never represented the people, they only represented one kind of people: the health care insurers.
Did something in the OP give you some reason to believe that the OP doesn’t believe what he posted, and posted it merely to provoke a negative reaction from you (or anybody else)?
Care to share it with us?
On preview: Font size? I tend to think of that as a frustrated scream intended to convey a point that the screamer felt was insufficiently conveyed at more conventional decibel levels. Trying to get attention paid to an assertion is decidedly NOT the same as trying to provoke a negative reaction.
You’re right. Either they stop the legislation now, or all the various compromises just make them look like bigger weasel jerks later. Can’t say I have a lot of sympathy for them, though. They dug this shit hole and now all of us are having to wallow in it.
