Friday, March 30, 2012

 

It'll Be in His Hands


I don’t know why anyone would hesitate to predict the snarly outcome of the current court hearing on health care reform. It’s been pre-judged, don’t you know.

The Roberts Court. Indeed.

You can already hear old Kennedy stuttering his concern about the purchase mandate. Scalia trivializes and brainwashes the issue with his chatty little broccoli metaphor. Look for that to be endlessly repeated as a slight to Michele come this fall.

The Koch Brothers and their ilky ilk have the tea party patsies so wound up that Republican presidential candidates can foist our health care system on local churches, community groups, and –did I mention?—churches.

Vote for Obama, and he wants you to buy health insurance. Vote for Santorum and he will make sure that you are enrolled in a Rick-approved church, which will not only provide your health care costs through bake sales and private solicitations of rich congregants, but save your soul as well, a move which will lead to your moral and physical reform of whatever nasty habits you’ve had, and provide a natural reduction in health care costs. Trickle down, you could say.

If I were the Treasurer for a church, I would wonder what the hell was going on. But mention of the church just seems to generate good vibes that further cohere the tight and wild right wing.

Rick Santorum wants to show you how he’ll cut costs. (Ron Paul favors this, too): community groups and churches will help you when you are hit with catastrophic illness or injury. The church comes up as a source for health care. Every congregation is full of Candy Stripers! And Pink Ladies, too!

Tea partiers generally don’t have to worry about health coverage. They are blind to the privilege they enjoy. They are easy for their puppet-masters to keep whipped up. After all, talk to one of these folks for a while and you’ll learn that their investments have taken a bath in recent years, and so tractable are they that they don’t even know whom to blame. In the meantime, attempt to tell them a painful tale from the New Hard Times and expect only self-righteous shrieking, talking points courtesy of Roger and Rush.

Hmmm. Are those nuns or nurses? Medics or missionaries?

Rick wants to offer you the blessed path to salvation, through which all your medical needs will either be tended, neglected, or negated. As Michele Bachmann says, inspirationally, Roll the Dice! when it comes to health insurance. (I never know what a sporting woman she was until this latest).

Can we do it in a hip night club or cable show? Tune in to Cardiac Craps! The Post-Obama Reality Show! Four uninsured families dealing with a life-threatening illnesses compete for comprehensive coverage by bungee-jump over pits of slime, wearing humiliating outfits while singing "At the Gas Station of Love, I Got the Self Service Pump," and vying for the Personality Points in the Trust Fall Tournament, while voting one another out at the end.

Okay, not so great. But you will go to heaven when you die, and if that's sooner, where's the harm? If not in this life, the next! That's the good news!

So die already.

The Lord is near!


Comments:
Barring a landslide re-election with major coattails, this may take a while. America's Health Insurance Plans, who jacked up rates in anticipation of Medical Loss Ratio limits, are bound to do more of the same without regulation. Will the people get fed-up when The Industry helps itself to 20% of GNP? Or just go looking for the usual scapegoats..
 
Oh my Lulu~ You have nailed it here. I just read an editorial of some guy (with the title III, after his last name), saying HE just pays for medial care as rendered. well either Mr "the third"- Mt3rd, is filthy rich, or filthy ignorant. He adds the term "lifestyle choices" so we know he;s filthy judgmental & or naive.
Have an extreme preemie & you've literally got a *million dollar baby*.
Need a surgery- even for something as simple as an appendix & have a $20,000 medical bill.

A new knee costs $50,000.

Any major surgery -- heart etc & you are well over $75,000 in the hole.

Nobody in the circles I run in (aka the 99%) has that kind of $ sitting around.

But it was pretty damned arrogant to imply needing health care beyond basic maintenance is a consequence of your own bad choices (fault).

Maybe Mt3rd will get t boned in a car accident & get a quick lesson in "medical bankruptcy", thereby joining in more than 60% of American bankruptcies.... and he will drop his lifesyle choice rhetoric?

Although I think the current health care reform bill sucks, I do also think it is not ok to have so many uninsured left to literally die in the streets.
My own kid is covered till he turns 24 (this year) even when at some point he was lass than a full time college student. But after that he's got to count on getting a job w health care ins.

I would have preferred the public option-- getting the ins co profiteers out of the equation... the party of NO would not even allow it in the discussion. It was off the table.

so yes... Bush's right wing court will be the deciders.

The worst president ever is still overshadowing our lives. He has to have a special place in hell reserved for him, Eh?
 
Santorum and teabagging are defined perfectly in the Urban Dictionary.
I'm thrilled that both are losing their faddish appeal to the great mass of dimwits we have in our country.
 
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