Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Health Care We support the right of all American citizens to receive quality basic preventative care and medical treatment. We posit that the amount of money that could be saved by basic preventative care for everyone outweighs the immediate expense of treating advanced illnesses of the poor. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
4:37 PM
If we look scientifically at the results of various systems in light of a good goal to promote health and care for all people in poor health, it is certainly not some governmental devil beast to choose together to give everyone the free option of going to the doctor when they are ill and to prevent illness, and to pay for it all together.
But the opposite has been tossed into the vicious pit of bought and sold demons in Congress, and in the name of healing. It is not oppressive socialism - it is a fascism of the rich, which forces everyone to purchase risk insurance from private companies. If I have a car I have to buy insurance, but I am free to take the bus; although health (and the bus) only work if we all pitch in to make systems work, but I am also free to walk if I want to. After all, without the bus to move workers around, rich people could never chase hot cars and big houses, and the workers would starve. While the bill regulates their most egregious violations of human dignity, it retains the putrid stench of the foul spirit at the core of our current system.
By omitting comprehensive public health care as a possibility, or even as a limited experiment, the current healthcare bill criminalizes some stratum of near-poverty economic wealth by leaving out a smaller, and incidentally more manageable population. By shrinking the population of Lepers, those cast out of basic dignity, but not caring for quite everyone, Neo-Roman America quiets the voice of the oppressed by reducing their numbers, making them more easy to manage, while retaining their suffering to be bandied about in the halls of Congress as poker chips, as hostages to exchange for unrelated political concessions by aspirant lords in a republican feudalism.
There can be no compromise with private health-mongers that satisfies our constitutional obligation to fight for equal protection of the law. That does not mean "an arbitrary formula with an equal sign in imbalanced rules labeled 'law' that the rich dudes wrote." It means that United States citizens deserve protection of our laws equally, and if we do not do that when we pass a law, then law cannot be adequately defined to satisfy the deeper morality that we know and work toward if we seek good at all. And we must, somehow, always seek it, together, to survive as a species.
Equally protecting the common dignity of everyone's health is an obligation of our Constitution, and it is the only fair thing to do morally and spiritually. If we truly got our priorities straight for taking care of life, there wouldn't be any abortion clinics because no one would be so desperate as to be tempted by one - and that would be the pressure of a truly free market economy at work.
And on the opposite pole of the false political spectrum, using such needs in the name of communist revolution as a means to stoke the flames of violence and overthrow an elite only accomplish the same goal, which is to replace the prior elite with a new one. Structurally, communism is not any more "fair," and in many ways incredibly becomes incredibly unfair as political decisions are divorced from all morality humankind has ever attempted to articulate.
As for being like the Swiss system, I don't think Rousseau would be as proud of them as of countries who take care of everyone, citizens and visitors alike, not because they are forced by thugs with guns, but because they are, as a people, charitable and kind. There is no reason why the United States could not take care of ourselves, flower the free spirit of caring for others throughout the globe, and heal ourselves and the world. It would certainly beat handing out truckloads of cash to weapons dealers. In God We Trust, certainly is a good maxim if not in the presence of money, and in money we should trust not.
Besides which, preventative care for everyone - and only if everyone - would save money. Instead, masses of Americans deceive themselves and allow themselves to be deceived, projecting an inverse image where caring means you want people to die whom you could easily help, and you express love for family by abandoning people to fend for themselves to "build character." Masses of Americans - mobs - allow themselves to be turned against one another in spite and rancor. Meanwhile, Congress sells us as slaves - literal economic slaves - to the highest bidder.
If fairly applied to protect Americans equally, taxes seem more fair than forced consumption in a system of concentrating profit to a small group of individuals. If we continue to act stupid forever, we will end up with the stupidest government ever, and we will all die, every last one of us and most everything else left on this rock, too. There is no need for any kind of revolution, a sentiment stoked by deceivers to exploit violence and division. We simply have to enforce the plain meaning of our current equal protection law, and it's the obligation of every citizen to do so.
inverse thinking
In a government of, by and for the people, that means us, everyone, poor people, rich people, as such things go, which means if we wanted a public option, or a single public-owned egalitarian cooperative, we could do that, if our cause is a good cause, to promote health and life.If we look scientifically at the results of various systems in light of a good goal to promote health and care for all people in poor health, it is certainly not some governmental devil beast to choose together to give everyone the free option of going to the doctor when they are ill and to prevent illness, and to pay for it all together.
But the opposite has been tossed into the vicious pit of bought and sold demons in Congress, and in the name of healing. It is not oppressive socialism - it is a fascism of the rich, which forces everyone to purchase risk insurance from private companies. If I have a car I have to buy insurance, but I am free to take the bus; although health (and the bus) only work if we all pitch in to make systems work, but I am also free to walk if I want to. After all, without the bus to move workers around, rich people could never chase hot cars and big houses, and the workers would starve. While the bill regulates their most egregious violations of human dignity, it retains the putrid stench of the foul spirit at the core of our current system.
By omitting comprehensive public health care as a possibility, or even as a limited experiment, the current healthcare bill criminalizes some stratum of near-poverty economic wealth by leaving out a smaller, and incidentally more manageable population. By shrinking the population of Lepers, those cast out of basic dignity, but not caring for quite everyone, Neo-Roman America quiets the voice of the oppressed by reducing their numbers, making them more easy to manage, while retaining their suffering to be bandied about in the halls of Congress as poker chips, as hostages to exchange for unrelated political concessions by aspirant lords in a republican feudalism.
There can be no compromise with private health-mongers that satisfies our constitutional obligation to fight for equal protection of the law. That does not mean "an arbitrary formula with an equal sign in imbalanced rules labeled 'law' that the rich dudes wrote." It means that United States citizens deserve protection of our laws equally, and if we do not do that when we pass a law, then law cannot be adequately defined to satisfy the deeper morality that we know and work toward if we seek good at all. And we must, somehow, always seek it, together, to survive as a species.
Equally protecting the common dignity of everyone's health is an obligation of our Constitution, and it is the only fair thing to do morally and spiritually. If we truly got our priorities straight for taking care of life, there wouldn't be any abortion clinics because no one would be so desperate as to be tempted by one - and that would be the pressure of a truly free market economy at work.
And on the opposite pole of the false political spectrum, using such needs in the name of communist revolution as a means to stoke the flames of violence and overthrow an elite only accomplish the same goal, which is to replace the prior elite with a new one. Structurally, communism is not any more "fair," and in many ways incredibly becomes incredibly unfair as political decisions are divorced from all morality humankind has ever attempted to articulate.
As for being like the Swiss system, I don't think Rousseau would be as proud of them as of countries who take care of everyone, citizens and visitors alike, not because they are forced by thugs with guns, but because they are, as a people, charitable and kind. There is no reason why the United States could not take care of ourselves, flower the free spirit of caring for others throughout the globe, and heal ourselves and the world. It would certainly beat handing out truckloads of cash to weapons dealers. In God We Trust, certainly is a good maxim if not in the presence of money, and in money we should trust not.
Besides which, preventative care for everyone - and only if everyone - would save money. Instead, masses of Americans deceive themselves and allow themselves to be deceived, projecting an inverse image where caring means you want people to die whom you could easily help, and you express love for family by abandoning people to fend for themselves to "build character." Masses of Americans - mobs - allow themselves to be turned against one another in spite and rancor. Meanwhile, Congress sells us as slaves - literal economic slaves - to the highest bidder.
If fairly applied to protect Americans equally, taxes seem more fair than forced consumption in a system of concentrating profit to a small group of individuals. If we continue to act stupid forever, we will end up with the stupidest government ever, and we will all die, every last one of us and most everything else left on this rock, too. There is no need for any kind of revolution, a sentiment stoked by deceivers to exploit violence and division. We simply have to enforce the plain meaning of our current equal protection law, and it's the obligation of every citizen to do so.
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Monday, November 9, 2009
6:36 PM
You're excited about reform, you're hyped, you want to do something to help the sick and the dying by banding together and working it out, and it looks like something's being done, except... well almost, but not quite.
And then a handful of people object and say, "but hey wait guys, look at that, it doesn't quite work." They become a "new opposition," and the people behind the movement of the political "reform" machine naturally lump us in with sociopathic pill poppers like Rush Limbaugh, and no one will listen.
The bill that the Senate agreed to debate (oh wow, how impressive) is one which still excludes some Americans from the hospital. "Those who have little, even what you have will be taken away from you."
By reducing the size of the oppressed group to 4% of the growing populace, the machine behind the curtain now manages the oppressed group more efficiently, and retains the political poker chip for future politicians.
Obama accomplished a new veil: now, you won't notice quite so many old and sick people bleeding and dying in the cold concrete streets of our cities. Meanwhile the Republican party plays the evil twin, looking the part of a murderous maniac but claiming to be on your side, so the Knight-in-shining Democrats can be moved about the board to execute the strategy of the big picture.
In fact we could feed, clothe and shelter everyone in this country, and send them to the hospital, giving them the "leg up" in freedom, so they heal, convalesce, or take their lives one step further into self-sufficiency. Overall we would spend less, and we would still have fun producing and selling in a free market.
A free and fair market is the best thing for tangible goods and many other things, but any fair and self-driven free society must refuse to buy and sell its own flesh and blood on a market. Our minds would grow brutish and dull, easy to anger and quick to kill.
If we continue to allow private insurance to rope our public economy into a private yoke, using minority oppression as a smokescreen to hide the deeper venom, then all we hoped for will crumble to dust.
Do not give up in the valiant struggle for truth. No compromise is possible to satisfy equal justice under the law. Health care reform now! But how can you reform one hundred and two soulless robots? Answer: COMMAND THEM.
"reform" perpetuates oppression of excluded minority
I am glad for the big new chunk of people the Senate has committed to ... what did they commit to exactly, just a debate about it? "The bill would cover 96% of Americans." Well what about the remaining four percent? Those Americans deserve access to basic preventative, emergency and palliative care as anyone else.You're excited about reform, you're hyped, you want to do something to help the sick and the dying by banding together and working it out, and it looks like something's being done, except... well almost, but not quite.
And then a handful of people object and say, "but hey wait guys, look at that, it doesn't quite work." They become a "new opposition," and the people behind the movement of the political "reform" machine naturally lump us in with sociopathic pill poppers like Rush Limbaugh, and no one will listen.
The bill that the Senate agreed to debate (oh wow, how impressive) is one which still excludes some Americans from the hospital. "Those who have little, even what you have will be taken away from you."
By reducing the size of the oppressed group to 4% of the growing populace, the machine behind the curtain now manages the oppressed group more efficiently, and retains the political poker chip for future politicians.
Obama accomplished a new veil: now, you won't notice quite so many old and sick people bleeding and dying in the cold concrete streets of our cities. Meanwhile the Republican party plays the evil twin, looking the part of a murderous maniac but claiming to be on your side, so the Knight-in-shining Democrats can be moved about the board to execute the strategy of the big picture.
In fact we could feed, clothe and shelter everyone in this country, and send them to the hospital, giving them the "leg up" in freedom, so they heal, convalesce, or take their lives one step further into self-sufficiency. Overall we would spend less, and we would still have fun producing and selling in a free market.
A free and fair market is the best thing for tangible goods and many other things, but any fair and self-driven free society must refuse to buy and sell its own flesh and blood on a market. Our minds would grow brutish and dull, easy to anger and quick to kill.
If we continue to allow private insurance to rope our public economy into a private yoke, using minority oppression as a smokescreen to hide the deeper venom, then all we hoped for will crumble to dust.
Do not give up in the valiant struggle for truth. No compromise is possible to satisfy equal justice under the law. Health care reform now! But how can you reform one hundred and two soulless robots? Answer: COMMAND THEM.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
11:24 AM
"Tea Party" is an insult to America
Do the "Tea Party" dupes think that George III was trying to make sure all the colonists could go to the doctor?> detail, links and comments >>
Monday, August 24, 2009
9:16 AM
Critics of universal coverage often say that this means the "death of America," that it means socialism will be instated and no one will have any freedom, old people will be euthanized, etc. Well, I do think old people in America should learn how to age gracefully, like the stars of the silver screen. We're all going to kick the bucket someday. But preventative coverage for all Americans means you'll be paying less in the long run in premiums and taxes to cover the cost of health emergencies for the uninsured. We have a right (and a moral obligation) to come together and say we're all going to help everyone out to go to the doctor. That doesn't mean we're socialists, it means we're nice people.
The critics' argument is a "slippery slope," that is, it starts with one fact, that government-run health coverage will insure everyone and prevent private companies from corralling customers into needless spending to make a buck. Then the slippery slope provides a chain of lies, that government will dictate all aspects of health care, that private companies will have no role, doctors will not be paid, euthanasia for old people, etc. This leads down the slippery slope to a false conclusion, that all private industry in America will cease to exist and the government will dictate all aspects of our lives.
What a load of crap.
Even within the health care market, there will still be all kinds of competition for doctors to provide new treatments, for drug companies to research new compounds or genetic therapies, for manufacturers to make new equipment, for free enterprise in computers, construction, materials, labor, from x-ray machines to wooden tongue depressors. The government isn't going to dictate all that, and it can't.
In fact, one might argue that by coming together to pool our resources as a nation to cover the uninsured, we will decrease competition in health insurances, but will increase the competition in all other aspects of health care. Right now, doctors have an incentive not to cure patients, but to keep them coming back for more treatments. What we want to do is to make doctors compete to cure patients. The more efficiently a doctor can cure a patient's ills, the more money they keep. That's the kind of capitalist system we want.
Capitalism and free competition are supposed to reduce costs for consumers. Private insurance is anti-capitalist, it is a system of welfare for the corporations and must be humanely put out of its misery.
health is not a slippery slope to socialism
Hats off to Mr. Obama for taking a stand, and leading Congress to pass health care reform that ensures every American will be able to get preventative care before health problems become an expensive crisis.Critics of universal coverage often say that this means the "death of America," that it means socialism will be instated and no one will have any freedom, old people will be euthanized, etc. Well, I do think old people in America should learn how to age gracefully, like the stars of the silver screen. We're all going to kick the bucket someday. But preventative coverage for all Americans means you'll be paying less in the long run in premiums and taxes to cover the cost of health emergencies for the uninsured. We have a right (and a moral obligation) to come together and say we're all going to help everyone out to go to the doctor. That doesn't mean we're socialists, it means we're nice people.
The critics' argument is a "slippery slope," that is, it starts with one fact, that government-run health coverage will insure everyone and prevent private companies from corralling customers into needless spending to make a buck. Then the slippery slope provides a chain of lies, that government will dictate all aspects of health care, that private companies will have no role, doctors will not be paid, euthanasia for old people, etc. This leads down the slippery slope to a false conclusion, that all private industry in America will cease to exist and the government will dictate all aspects of our lives.
What a load of crap.
Even within the health care market, there will still be all kinds of competition for doctors to provide new treatments, for drug companies to research new compounds or genetic therapies, for manufacturers to make new equipment, for free enterprise in computers, construction, materials, labor, from x-ray machines to wooden tongue depressors. The government isn't going to dictate all that, and it can't.
In fact, one might argue that by coming together to pool our resources as a nation to cover the uninsured, we will decrease competition in health insurances, but will increase the competition in all other aspects of health care. Right now, doctors have an incentive not to cure patients, but to keep them coming back for more treatments. What we want to do is to make doctors compete to cure patients. The more efficiently a doctor can cure a patient's ills, the more money they keep. That's the kind of capitalist system we want.
Capitalism and free competition are supposed to reduce costs for consumers. Private insurance is anti-capitalist, it is a system of welfare for the corporations and must be humanely put out of its misery.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
9:11 AM
If we continue to support a broken system in which insurance companies have carved out a system of socialism for themselves and only themselves, by writing laws to make the industry anti-competitive, we are screwing ourselves over.
The entrenched system of socialism for the wealthy must end in America if we're going to make it through the next 20 years without bankrupting the country.
no socialism for insurance corps - if gov't cheaper, gov't competes
If a public option for healthcare insurance would lower costs for consumers and drive private insurance companies out of business, then that is competition, that is free enterprise, that is what we ought to do.If we continue to support a broken system in which insurance companies have carved out a system of socialism for themselves and only themselves, by writing laws to make the industry anti-competitive, we are screwing ourselves over.
The entrenched system of socialism for the wealthy must end in America if we're going to make it through the next 20 years without bankrupting the country.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
12:15 PM
An army of corporate accountants believes that they should be entitled to fat paychecks because their lobbyists and the congressional slaves of that money have invented a labyrinth of regulations over the years which they feel entitles them to decide how insurance pool money is spent.
They cannot ever be objective or fair because their personal profit relies on their bottom line. Therefore, morally and legally, insurance corporations are not entitled to make these decisions. Associations develop in the minds of corporate policy makers that are unavoidable - money is power, and money entitles one to life. This is false, and demonic.
There can be no compromise with corporate insurance that does not leave some Americans out in the cold deliberately. No compromise will ever heal the division this injustice creates. This division is yet another tool in the arsenal of those who torture America by sending her in harm's way for their own pocketbooks. Leaving some people out of power as a way to consolidate it is anti-democratic in the extreme. It's the same strategy as denying the vote to excluded groups in order to keep the voting group in line. It's anti-democratic and anti-American.
Obama is doing some good by narrowing that gap, but I hate to ask it this way, does he make himself a slave to the corporations through compromise? He should get up there and kick their asses out of town.
The angry "town hall" mob talking about "death panels" and revolution is all too happy to seek any excuse to start killing people in the streets. If it comes to that, I have a feeling the rest of us won't need weapons, we will just hold hands and sing songs and walk straight over you. Are you really that frightened, poor little people? Maybe the right answer is to pray.
No compromise can satisfy the 14th amendment demand for equal justice under the law. Unless Congress passes health care reform that ensures health care for every American, they only pay lip service to our votes and our good judgment as intelligent, caring citizens, and consign themselves to continuing slavery to the lobbyists, lawyers and trans-national corporations, selling Manhattan for a string of pretty beads, as it were, to the conquerors from foreign lands.
Government bureaucracy has the same tendency to fatten itself, it's true. However, in a market like health care, government salaries and incentives would not be tied to increase in short-term gains, but to breaking even over long term and having enough in reserve well into the future. It removes the financial incentive from policy decisions. And, we can march down to our congressional office to speak our minds, or elect a new Congress to change the rules if they don't work out, but no one gets into a corporate board room past corporate security who doesn't belong there. Simply put, no one in a corporate board room gives a damn whether you live or die. At least we can fire the politicians.
While the root of all evil may be deeper than love of money, love of money is nevertheless symbolic of loving an icon, a symbol, an idol, or an abstract idea. By tokenizing social relationships and religion, we think we are able to get a little distance between ourselves and the overwhelming force that bears down on us when we open our minds to the boundary between sense and imagination: the "fear of God." Thus we think we are able to maintain a little sanity - but God and creation are largely beyond our control, and deep down we know this in the core of life. We confine only ourselves to predetermination - the living God does not have to follow a set course that really we are dreaming up in our heads as just an idea. God is free: are you?
no compromise is possible with insurance corporations
Healers should be paid for their skills, but the art of healing is either about healing people or about making a profit, it cannot be both.An army of corporate accountants believes that they should be entitled to fat paychecks because their lobbyists and the congressional slaves of that money have invented a labyrinth of regulations over the years which they feel entitles them to decide how insurance pool money is spent.
They cannot ever be objective or fair because their personal profit relies on their bottom line. Therefore, morally and legally, insurance corporations are not entitled to make these decisions. Associations develop in the minds of corporate policy makers that are unavoidable - money is power, and money entitles one to life. This is false, and demonic.
There can be no compromise with corporate insurance that does not leave some Americans out in the cold deliberately. No compromise will ever heal the division this injustice creates. This division is yet another tool in the arsenal of those who torture America by sending her in harm's way for their own pocketbooks. Leaving some people out of power as a way to consolidate it is anti-democratic in the extreme. It's the same strategy as denying the vote to excluded groups in order to keep the voting group in line. It's anti-democratic and anti-American.
Obama is doing some good by narrowing that gap, but I hate to ask it this way, does he make himself a slave to the corporations through compromise? He should get up there and kick their asses out of town.
The angry "town hall" mob talking about "death panels" and revolution is all too happy to seek any excuse to start killing people in the streets. If it comes to that, I have a feeling the rest of us won't need weapons, we will just hold hands and sing songs and walk straight over you. Are you really that frightened, poor little people? Maybe the right answer is to pray.
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
No compromise can satisfy the 14th amendment demand for equal justice under the law. Unless Congress passes health care reform that ensures health care for every American, they only pay lip service to our votes and our good judgment as intelligent, caring citizens, and consign themselves to continuing slavery to the lobbyists, lawyers and trans-national corporations, selling Manhattan for a string of pretty beads, as it were, to the conquerors from foreign lands.
Government bureaucracy has the same tendency to fatten itself, it's true. However, in a market like health care, government salaries and incentives would not be tied to increase in short-term gains, but to breaking even over long term and having enough in reserve well into the future. It removes the financial incentive from policy decisions. And, we can march down to our congressional office to speak our minds, or elect a new Congress to change the rules if they don't work out, but no one gets into a corporate board room past corporate security who doesn't belong there. Simply put, no one in a corporate board room gives a damn whether you live or die. At least we can fire the politicians.
While the root of all evil may be deeper than love of money, love of money is nevertheless symbolic of loving an icon, a symbol, an idol, or an abstract idea. By tokenizing social relationships and religion, we think we are able to get a little distance between ourselves and the overwhelming force that bears down on us when we open our minds to the boundary between sense and imagination: the "fear of God." Thus we think we are able to maintain a little sanity - but God and creation are largely beyond our control, and deep down we know this in the core of life. We confine only ourselves to predetermination - the living God does not have to follow a set course that really we are dreaming up in our heads as just an idea. God is free: are you?
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Monday, August 10, 2009
12:22 PM
A national health care plan that we come together in Congress to craft for the good of the country would ensure that every child like Trig Palin receives care.
Why is Trig more special than poor children with Down's Syndrome who cannot afford care?
Sarah Palin propaganda psychosis
Sarah Palin holds up her down syndrome baby, to argue that not everyone in America should receive care, and that poor disabled babies should be allowed to die? That's crazy talk. Besides which, Down's Syndrome is not fatal.A national health care plan that we come together in Congress to craft for the good of the country would ensure that every child like Trig Palin receives care.
Why is Trig more special than poor children with Down's Syndrome who cannot afford care?
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Friday, August 7, 2009
6:07 PM
You dupes are really fighting what's good for everyone and your own pocketbooks in the long run, because we are not a society of nazis who execute the sick and disabled, throwing them away like garbage.
The United States of America has always been founded on Christian ideals, and that absolutely includes charity and lending a hand to the poor and the ill.
We refuse to be lulled by the sick minds like Glenn Beck and the other slaves of the media millions and slaves of the Republican party.
Obama has done nothing against the constitution concerning healthcare as far as I can tell. There is nothing that says Congress cannot regulate healthcare. After all, I may travel to another state freely, and I might be in a car wreck anywhere, so it seems like "interstate commerce" to me.
(Republicans and Democrats pretty much screwed us and our children over for life by giving a trillion dollars to Wall Street. Food is cheap, our farm economy is strong and we all would survive even a few years without other jobs in the economy at all, it would give us a chance to figure out where we're going with all our know-how if we just relaxed and slowed down a little. But that's a different story.)
You suckers take the lies from the media telling you that "revolution is upon us" and you eat it up like idiots. You are being just as stupid now as you were stupid when you let Wall Street con you out of your savings, your pension funds and then another trillion dollars.
You say that doctors and patients will no longer decide your health care choices, but government will. That's a load of crap. For one thing, government already tells doctors what they can and cannot do, and this is a good thing because it keeps quacks from killing so many people and promotes tested, scientific medicine.
Which choice is better? Wouldn't you rather elect people to decide policy in open debate, instead of giving the power to insurance executives and private attorneys who decide who lives and who dies based on their personal profit and consider themselves above the law?
Lord, protect me from these people who often take your name, because they are a bunch of dupes who are threatening the integrity of the Union because of what... because the rest of us want to lend a hand to the poor?
Lord, how about you give them a taste of what it feels like to be cast out of your family and friends and job due to unfortunate circumstance and to need to go to the doctor but you make barely too much to qualify for healthcare, and you spent all that on rent. Well why not spend the last seven dollars on a miserable bottle of whiskey, many would ask, and cigarettes to stop the tears?
So the Devil gets his teeth into another lost soul, day after day after day, devouring the weak and those who are outside of your Darwinian bell curve, you hypocritical survival-of-the-fittest tea party dupes. And you could have done something about it, but instead you behaved like rabble-rousing dis-unionists.
Certainly the rupture of our Union over something like healthcare is not worth the price. The health coverage that you've got for your kids because of your relatively high position down here in the middle class would be totally meaningless if people actually caused a civil war over this. Don't you understand what that means? Blood, blood, and more blood. That's what you want?
Calls for revolution and fragmentation over this are ironic since the Confederate government was pretty much military socialism by bonding the cotton market and all that. But you share the same brutish regard for human life and dignity, obviously, that because you got your pile then to hell with everybody else, and it's a better strategy of competition against other groups that your genetic offspring get medical care, that way people who don't look like you are more likely to die. Well we are all Americans and human beings too, you ignorant dupes.
Besides which, the other free democracies of the world with national healthcare are still free, and they spend a lot less than we do overall, but have great standards of care. There's no reason we can't learn something from that and learn to do it right. America is going down the tubes because dupes like these tea party idiots are so belligerent they turn away from obvious profit for the nation which also makes life a lot better for everyone.
tea party dupes
It amuses me that these dupes are buying all this tea from China and throwing it away in symbolic gestures. Who profits from that? But more to the point...You dupes are really fighting what's good for everyone and your own pocketbooks in the long run, because we are not a society of nazis who execute the sick and disabled, throwing them away like garbage.
The United States of America has always been founded on Christian ideals, and that absolutely includes charity and lending a hand to the poor and the ill.
We refuse to be lulled by the sick minds like Glenn Beck and the other slaves of the media millions and slaves of the Republican party.
Obama has done nothing against the constitution concerning healthcare as far as I can tell. There is nothing that says Congress cannot regulate healthcare. After all, I may travel to another state freely, and I might be in a car wreck anywhere, so it seems like "interstate commerce" to me.
(Republicans and Democrats pretty much screwed us and our children over for life by giving a trillion dollars to Wall Street. Food is cheap, our farm economy is strong and we all would survive even a few years without other jobs in the economy at all, it would give us a chance to figure out where we're going with all our know-how if we just relaxed and slowed down a little. But that's a different story.)
You suckers take the lies from the media telling you that "revolution is upon us" and you eat it up like idiots. You are being just as stupid now as you were stupid when you let Wall Street con you out of your savings, your pension funds and then another trillion dollars.
You say that doctors and patients will no longer decide your health care choices, but government will. That's a load of crap. For one thing, government already tells doctors what they can and cannot do, and this is a good thing because it keeps quacks from killing so many people and promotes tested, scientific medicine.
Which choice is better? Wouldn't you rather elect people to decide policy in open debate, instead of giving the power to insurance executives and private attorneys who decide who lives and who dies based on their personal profit and consider themselves above the law?
Lord, protect me from these people who often take your name, because they are a bunch of dupes who are threatening the integrity of the Union because of what... because the rest of us want to lend a hand to the poor?
Lord, how about you give them a taste of what it feels like to be cast out of your family and friends and job due to unfortunate circumstance and to need to go to the doctor but you make barely too much to qualify for healthcare, and you spent all that on rent. Well why not spend the last seven dollars on a miserable bottle of whiskey, many would ask, and cigarettes to stop the tears?
So the Devil gets his teeth into another lost soul, day after day after day, devouring the weak and those who are outside of your Darwinian bell curve, you hypocritical survival-of-the-fittest tea party dupes. And you could have done something about it, but instead you behaved like rabble-rousing dis-unionists.
Certainly the rupture of our Union over something like healthcare is not worth the price. The health coverage that you've got for your kids because of your relatively high position down here in the middle class would be totally meaningless if people actually caused a civil war over this. Don't you understand what that means? Blood, blood, and more blood. That's what you want?
Calls for revolution and fragmentation over this are ironic since the Confederate government was pretty much military socialism by bonding the cotton market and all that. But you share the same brutish regard for human life and dignity, obviously, that because you got your pile then to hell with everybody else, and it's a better strategy of competition against other groups that your genetic offspring get medical care, that way people who don't look like you are more likely to die. Well we are all Americans and human beings too, you ignorant dupes.
Besides which, the other free democracies of the world with national healthcare are still free, and they spend a lot less than we do overall, but have great standards of care. There's no reason we can't learn something from that and learn to do it right. America is going down the tubes because dupes like these tea party idiots are so belligerent they turn away from obvious profit for the nation which also makes life a lot better for everyone.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
11:13 AM
New York times piece prior to study's publication.
Mailman School of Public Health
When are Christians going to get it? Your religion is being used against you, to thrill you will the lure of feeling personally powerful, and to take your money — not to feed, clothe and heal the poor, but to make the rich fat.
Even the conservative Republican governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney supported comprehensive health care reform that mandates everyone buy some level of health insurance, giving breaks to small businesses so they can help out their employees. This has already started to save Massachusetts a bundle by eliminating hospital overhead costs of treating the uninsured, and will save more because people will be able to get regular preventative care before they get sick.
McCain's plan would undercut Romney's state's regulations and undo all his gains to balance the competing interests in his state. It's not only a deceptive trick and bad fiscal policy. It's also anti-federalist, because it takes control over state issues out of the hands of state governments, and anti-American because it gives that control to private corporations, leaving the people at the mercy of fat, scheming insurance lawyers.
McCain's plan would leave millions uninsurable
McCain's "plan" for privatization of health care would leave millions uninsured, cause skyrocketing rates for the elderly, and undermine individual state's health care regulations.New York times piece prior to study's publication.
Mailman School of Public Health
When are Christians going to get it? Your religion is being used against you, to thrill you will the lure of feeling personally powerful, and to take your money — not to feed, clothe and heal the poor, but to make the rich fat.
Even the conservative Republican governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney supported comprehensive health care reform that mandates everyone buy some level of health insurance, giving breaks to small businesses so they can help out their employees. This has already started to save Massachusetts a bundle by eliminating hospital overhead costs of treating the uninsured, and will save more because people will be able to get regular preventative care before they get sick.
McCain's plan would undercut Romney's state's regulations and undo all his gains to balance the competing interests in his state. It's not only a deceptive trick and bad fiscal policy. It's also anti-federalist, because it takes control over state issues out of the hands of state governments, and anti-American because it gives that control to private corporations, leaving the people at the mercy of fat, scheming insurance lawyers.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
8:03 AM
You're also not a communist if you think that everyone should be provided basic necessities like food and shelter, even the "undeserving poor," homeless, drunks and other sinners. No measure of health care or welfare for poor and/or inept people would require a state-run economy or any restriction of Americans' basic rights of free expression or association. Sending poor kids to the doctor in the United States will not result in the government sending off train loads of suspected dissidents or cultural groups to be executed. And, sending poor people to the doctor will not break our bank, it is overspending on illegal and unjustified wars that will break us economically.
In fact, one might argue economically that our commonwealth could save money by providing these basic needs, instead of providing emergency charity care for catastrophic health problems. The souls of people still want to explore avenues for personal economic and spiritual advancement. Isn't it in service of freedom and capitalism to give all people the chance to compete?
There's still plenty of room for inequity, for large personal gains, for competition, and for free expression. But you should feel free to say that the losers of the economic game shouldn't lose so much... no one should ever lose the chance to play again. That doesn't make you a communist. It just makes you a nice person.
national health care is not communism
You're not a communist if you think that Americans should get together and pool their resources so that everyone (especially kids) can go to the doctor. You're just a decent human being, and if you call yourself a Christian, you're a good Christian.You're also not a communist if you think that everyone should be provided basic necessities like food and shelter, even the "undeserving poor," homeless, drunks and other sinners. No measure of health care or welfare for poor and/or inept people would require a state-run economy or any restriction of Americans' basic rights of free expression or association. Sending poor kids to the doctor in the United States will not result in the government sending off train loads of suspected dissidents or cultural groups to be executed. And, sending poor people to the doctor will not break our bank, it is overspending on illegal and unjustified wars that will break us economically.
In fact, one might argue economically that our commonwealth could save money by providing these basic needs, instead of providing emergency charity care for catastrophic health problems. The souls of people still want to explore avenues for personal economic and spiritual advancement. Isn't it in service of freedom and capitalism to give all people the chance to compete?
There's still plenty of room for inequity, for large personal gains, for competition, and for free expression. But you should feel free to say that the losers of the economic game shouldn't lose so much... no one should ever lose the chance to play again. That doesn't make you a communist. It just makes you a nice person.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
10:10 PM
I had no health coverage from work and could never afford any on my own. At that point I happened to really need to go to the doctor.
But the county health care system draws a line at $500/month income, so I did not qualify as a charity case. That was an incentive to get fired from my job and stop being productive for society, though I didn't.
I can't express how sad it is to feel cast out from society when you're taking every step to work hard and try to make a living. So many people feel like that, like the system is stacked against them more and more every day.
being almost broke can be worse than having nothing
I drove pizzas for a while. I made about $800/month after taxes. I rented out the living room of my 1-bedroom apartment, so I only had to pay $500/month for rent. (This $1000/month palace was beset by crack dealing pimps with automatic weapons living downstairs... it was the cheapest neighborhood in town.)I had no health coverage from work and could never afford any on my own. At that point I happened to really need to go to the doctor.
But the county health care system draws a line at $500/month income, so I did not qualify as a charity case. That was an incentive to get fired from my job and stop being productive for society, though I didn't.
I can't express how sad it is to feel cast out from society when you're taking every step to work hard and try to make a living. So many people feel like that, like the system is stacked against them more and more every day.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
6:14 PM
Health Care
We support the right of all American citizens to receive quality basic preventative care and medical treatment. We posit that the amount of money that could be saved by basic preventative care for everyone outweighs the immediate expense of treating advanced illnesses of the poor. The idea of insurance is that people come together and pool their money to cover unforseen expenses. Why do "conservatives" make an argument that Americans have no right to do this together as a whole? If only because they profit from their insurance stock while people suffer with no healthcare, then their principles are a sham.> detail, links and comments >>
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