Aliens and Healthcare (by guest author Aaron)
December 17, 2009 As any reasonable person knows, only aliens require constant health care; aliens, and liberals. I'm a huge advocate of health care as it will prolong my alien and liberal life, one or more or less gods rest my soul.
I digress, however, to point out that there is not really a downside. We shun taxes as we would the bubonic plague. And why is that? Living in a "free" and "equitable" country is often times neither free, nor equitable, and simply because I didn't believe in a absurd war, was I simply not to pay taxes? Could I separate the troops from their mission, supporting the former while denying the validity of the latter?
But clearly it's different when the shoe is on the hoof of another species. How is it that a health care bill that would benefit both liberals and conservatives is being thrashed by the conservatives who want no health care bill at all? We opt to take care of everyone, yet they continually opt to take care of only themselves. Clearly benefiting the nation as a whole is only a silly ideal....
It seems that these conservative arguments are continually exacerbating the rift between parties and you fail to realize that we're supposedly united. Imagine all that we could accomplish together if we'd simply pull our heads forth from our rectums, and agree that while you bicker, we all die.
The needs of the many truly outweigh the needs of the one.
I also feel the need to point the rather obscure objection made in the Senate to require the reading of a nearly 800 page document outlining a framework for a National Single Payer Healthcare system, or in short, Medicare for all authored by Bernie Sanders. Claiming to want to know what the bill was about while realistically only aiming to kill time before the winter recess seems like a move engineered with the intent of killing something that may be beneficial for the country. But why benefit the country at all?
And why these "elected officials" are so dead-set against healthcare for all is beyond me, vying for the attention of the masses from their pulpits, and indeed with just a hint of hypocrisy, since these government officials HAVE THEIR OWN HEALTH CARE! They don't sneeze without seeing a doctor while many die simply because they don't have that luxury.
With all the advances and claims that America is the greatest nation on the planet, I think it's high time that we started acting like it, as opposed to carrying on like a mass of recalcitrant children.
We left the age of "Gentleman's Duels" behind and instead choose to hide behind a mask of words and insinuations, as clearly this makes us far more civilized than our predecessors, but in the wake of this advancement, we fail to accomplish absolutely anything.
It's always too soon to take about healthcare reform. This is odd, considering reform was on the tips of everyone's tongue only as recently as 1940!
But I'm sure we will continue this pointless charade and dance, and talk our way into snake burrows until the end of time. Maybe that's the endgame; delay healthcare until there is absolutely nothing to care for anymore!
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Reader Comments (6)
I don't understand why you are ragging on the conservatives. They don't have the votes to stop whatever the liberals want to do either in the House or the Senate. By all appearances the problems of getting health care reform passed is due to Dems holding up the bill for ransom. Aren't you pissed that Nebraska and Louisiana are putting the burden to pay for their share of reform on the backs of the other states?
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Happy Holidays,Mad
Those elected seem sadly to care MOST about just getting re-elected ...and yet, somehow, we've managed to get at least SOME reform passed.
Wonders never cease! May we one day see REAL healthcare reform, recognizing the right of every citizen to healthcare paid solely from the tax base. A single-payer system that eliminates the greed of for-profit insurance!!
You would find the "right" to health care where in the Constitution? Just citing the clause would be just fine.
Real health care reform would be getting your hands out of my pocket so that I can take care of myself. You can take care of yourself... The freedom to make choices and live with those choices. This is what the framers had in mind. Not that you or the Dems give a s..t about that.
Just a minor fact on the ground. 48% of all private insurance is covered by non-profits. 52% are greedy capitalist pigs preying on the innocent children.
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