I may have stated that a little too strongly, but ask yourself: Who would die if they didn’t have a car? Yes or no, couldn’t a majority of people make do with public transportation?
Health care OTOH is something that everyone is going to require at some point.
It’s not the Republicans who are the root problem here. It’s the insurance companies who don’t want people to get well or seek treatment, because that involves paying out money. By opposing health care reform, the Republicans (and some of the Democrats) are simply on their side in this one.
I am amazed at how many people misunderstand what Grayson was saying. He didn’t say Republicans want people to die quickly. What he said was that was their health care plan. The reason you should die quickly if you do get sick is so that it doesn’t cost you as much as it would cost if it took a long time to die.
But I see the spin based on (possibly? probably? willful) misunderstanding is already starting.
But that isn’t the Republican health care plan. No more than the Democratic plan for unwanted pregnancies is murder.
How do you know that? Can you give us a cite showing the Republican health care plan?
Confidential. National security reasons. But it’s great!
Tax union health plans is about all I heard.
Can Florida have a little credit, here?
He should probably apologise for the holocaust bit, but otherwise no.
It’s hard to pin down Republicans on finding out precisely what sort of bonds to one another we have. When it’s 9/11 we’re countrymen, when it’s healthcare we’re not. It’s confusing.
Why do you think he should apologize for using the word holocaust?
Because some people will undoubtedly take it the wrong way (or have already), even though he’s Jewish. Just the “I apologise for any misunderstandings over my choice of words” non-apology the Republicans have been trotting out a lot lately.
I understand your reasoning, but I don’t think he should apologize at all. I think you might have more of a point if he had said Holocaust, implying that this was another version of directed genocide, but he didn’t. In listening to his use of the word, I found no implied or explicit capitalization of the word, and I’m loathe to ascribe a taboo to an otherwise perfectly useful word.
The Republicans seem to say that Democratic support for the right to choose abortion is support for murder. It seems kinda whiny to characterize the Republican advice to the uninsured to go the the ER and go bankrupt or better yet die quickly is unfair if the level of rhetoric has descended to that level. And it has.
If you aren’t going to follow my previous posts where I’ve talked about previous Republican health care proposals, I feel no need to repeat myself or expand on previous points.
So, no, then?
Those were previous plans. What have they got lately? Just more of the same?
Two parts. First, put a cap on all medical malpractice suits at $2500, including lawyers fees, which may not exceed $11/hr. Second, totally defund ACORN and put the money into solid, reliable investment firms, and the interest on the money will buy greens fees for health insurance executives.
It’s not that useful, except in the sense of *nuclear ______, *in which case it’s generally pretty obvious what you’re talking about.
Wait a minute. You can’t have a Princess Bride quote-fest without Holocaust Cloak.
It’s also useful for describing
or a catastrophe, a devastation, a shambles, a wasting…
It’s a perfectly cromulent word, and in the case of Mr. Grayson’s speech, it was pretty obvious what he was talking about.