Posts filed under ‘Health – Physical and Psychological’
Cash Warfare
Rachel Maddow said it all just now as to what the 2012 election is going to be about. Forget the 99ers. Forget jobs. Forget education. Forget healthcare. Forget infrastructure.
Thanks to Bush’s Supreme Court and Citizens United, 2012 is all about:
CASHWARFARE.
I’ll put video up as soon as it’s available but ain’t that the truth?
I don’t know about you but I can’t afford to buy my representative. But Bank of America can!
Pandemic
A friend sent me an article this morning (here it is) about H5N1 “bird flu.”
That got me thinking about pandemics generally so I Googled “pandemic” and got this.
Pretty disconcerting to see that amongst the top three articles are these two:
UCLA researchers find that H1N1 has spread to pigs in Africa
UCLA researchers have made an intriguing discovery. They’ve found swine flu in North African pigs. They stumbled upon the H1N1 virus while studying swine in Cameroon. The scientists think the pigs caught the virus from humans. They say the strain is almost identical to the one that many Southlanders contracted.
It’s something like a global game of viral ping-pong.
Scientists say the H1N1 virus originally spread from pigs to humans in Mexico, then traveled to Southern California and across the globe before finding its way to pigs in Africa.
Along the way the contagion sickened around 60 million people and killed more than 12,000.
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Budget cuts threaten pandemic response
The nation may be more vulnerable to a pandemic because of budget cuts that have slashed funding for emergency preparedness and downsized the force of public health workers.
Nashville has been part of that trend, and so has the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The physicians who head the local health department and the CDC worry about responding to a pandemic with fewer resources. Their diminished funding faces the likelihood of more cuts as the federal government looks for ways to reduce the deficit.
Thanks Tea Party.
From Terri Schiavo to Let Them Die
Remember Terri Schiavo? Remember back in 2005 when Republicans were running all around the country filing briefs and making speeches about how her family must not be permitted to “pull the plug” that had kept her in a “persistent vegetative state” for 15 years?
That was a mere six years ago.
Fast forward to last night. Republican/Tea Partiers cheered the idea that people who don’t have health insurance should be left to die.
The hate coming from that party is chilling.
Flash Mob Converges on Marcus Bachmann’s Pray-the-Gay-Away Clinic
This is hilarious video of a flash mob converging in the parking lot of Dr. Marcus Bachmann’s pray-the-gay-away “Bachmann & Associates” clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota yesterday. Oh, and BTW, Marcus Bachmann is Michele’s husband.
(Via.)
Americans to D.C. — Don’t Cut Entitlements!
Here’s yet another indication D.C. isn’t listening to We the People:
What if pollsters asked Americans which concerns them more: The prospect of tax hikes on people like them, or the possibility of cuts to Medicare and Social Security?
Well, a new National Journal poll released today has done just that. And by a sizable margin, a plurality is more concerned about cuts to entitlements than about paying more taxes. It’s yet another sign that the public is on the Dems’ side in this fight.
Here’s the key finding, from the internals of the poll, which were sent my way by National Journal:
In the debate over proposals to increase the federal debt ceiling, which of the folllowing possible outcomes concern you most?
A default on the federal debt that could raise interest rates for things like mortgages and consumer loans: 17
An agreement that raises taxes on people like you: 17
An agreement that authorizes too much federal spending in the next few years: 19
An agreement that cuts too much from government programs like Medicare and Social Security: 39
Hike our taxes before you cut our “entitlements.” GOT THAT WASHINGTON?!
Congress Should Get Their Retirement Funds When We Get Them
So, if Washington is going to entertain the idea of raising the age when us peons are eligible for retirement benefits, let’s include congress in that deal. So says Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
Senator Sherrod Brown has an idea. If we are going to talk about raising people’s eligibility age for retirement benefits, then members of Congress should not have access to their own retirement benefits any earlier than the rest of us.
Brown is introducing a proposal today in Congress that would enshrine this into law: It would amend the Federal retirement system to make the Social Security retirement age the point at which current and future members of Congress get access to their own Federal retirement benefits.
You might dismiss this proposal as merely designed to send a message, and indeed the proposal that may not even come up for a vote. But Brown is hoping that the very fact that it’s a long shot will force some members of Congress — and the President — to rethink the notion that it’s acceptable to raise the retirement age on hard working Americans.
“The people who cavalierly say we can raise the retirement age probably don’t know people who work in a diner or in construction or in manufacturing or in retail and had their knees go out in their 40s or 50s,” Brown told me in an interview. “People who are doing physical work always have back problems and joint problems.”
I say bravo and I say ah yeah. Duh. Congress critters have a lotta gall proposing that we can’t get our retirement benefits until we’re 67 when they get theirs immediately…even if they retire at age 40.
Let’s start chipping away at the caste system around here for God’s sake.
If Obama Agrees to Cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid…
William Rivers Pitts is spot-on when it comes to how I will feel if Obama so much as touches Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid during the, ahem, “bipartisan budget negotiations:”
There is no deal on paper as of yet, and the whole world is watching. Many people I spoke to on this were blunt: if the Democrats consent to any deal that damages or denudes Social Security and Medicare, then that’s it, hats over the windmill, and turn out the lights when you leave. Obama and his people can hope and change their way across the campaign trail until they are blue in the face. They will not be getting the votes of these people. This administration has made it clear on more than one occasion that they do not think too highly of their own base, and by acting like Republicans, perhaps they believe they will earn the votes of enough independents to offset the damage.
Maybe they will, and maybe they won’t, but that is not the point.
This is a matter of honor, plain and simple. An ocean of blood, sweat and tears has been spent bringing these all-important programs to life, and even more has been spent protecting and defending them. If this president consents to throw all that over in an act of political triangulation, he will be marked in my book for all time as a failure, a betrayer, and a disgrace.
In my book, and in many other books besides.
And there’s this from Joe Conason over at Truthout:
But the restored courage demonstrated by Democratic senators in support of his plan will not accomplish much if the president is determined to capitulate on fundamental principles. Should he prove to be so foolish, then he will find himself another step closer to the end of his presidency.
And though I believe every citizen has not only a right, but a responsibility to vote, I am feeling so deceived by Obama — he is unrecognizable from candidate Obama — I am seriously considering not voting for president in November, 2012.
10 Hours in the Hospital = $5,230+
My husband has been diagnosed with sleep apnea. On June 12 he spent ten hours at a medical office building across the street from our local hospital being “tested” to see which of several treatments might be best for him. He checked in at 8:00 p.m. and checked out at 6:00 a.m. on June 13.
They hooked him up to a a bunch of monitors, put him to bed in a room with a bunch of cameras, and they recorded his movement, BP and oxygen intake for the night. He didn’t get any food and he brought his meds with him.
We got the bill today: $5,234.00.
Per the “Ryan Plan,” House Republicans (100% of them) voted to give seniors who are on Medicare $8,000 a year to buy coverage from a private insurer.
Far as I can tell, President Obama has, tragically, been convinced that the Ryan Plan is a good thing and he is negotiating with Republicans to adopt some, if not all of its provisions in an effort to “reduce the deficit” and cow to conservatives who he apparently thinks are in the majority, even though they aren’t. (Google this issue. Americans overwhelmingly don’t want cuts to Social Security or Medicare/Medicaid. They want taxes to be raised on people who make over $250,000. Period.)
Anyway, think about this for a minute. You have $8,000 to spend on a plan that supposedly covers you for a year and voila, your coverage essentially evaporates after one procedure? Yeah. That’ll work.
As the Incidence of Diabetes Increases Worldwide, Walmart and Kmart Jack Up Cost of Diabetes Drugs
Ah yes, capitalism is a wonderful thing:
There’s this:
Diabetes Rate ‘Doubles’ – Imperial College and Harvard Research Suggests
The number of adults with diabetes in the world has more than doubled since 1980, a study in the Lancet says.
And there’s this:
Wal-Mart Hikes Branded Diabetes Drug Prices — Study
Big-box retailers Wal-Mart Stores and Kmart, pioneers in the push to cut consumer prices for generic drugs, have been raising prices for the most popular brand-name diabetes drugs, according to a new study.
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The study also showed that Wal-Mart has raised prices for the 10 most-prescribed diabetes treatments by 32 percent between 2008 and 2010, compared with an average industry-wide increase of 21 percent, which includes chain drugstores, mail-order firms and independent pharmacies.
Kmart, a unit of Sears Holding Corp, raised its prices by 35 percent over the same two-year period, according to the study.
Are Governments Lying by Omission About Fukushima?
Al Jazeera has a chilling article up titled: Fukushima: It’s Worse Than You Think — Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public. There’s a lot of alarming info in it, including this:
Radioactive air filters from cars in Fukushima prefecture and Tokyo are now common, and Gundersen says his sources are finding radioactive air filters in the greater Seattle area of the US as well.
The hot particles on them can eventually lead to cancer.
“These get stuck in your lungs or GI tract, and they are a constant irritant,” he explained, “One cigarette doesn’t get you, but over time they do. These [hot particles] can cause cancer, but you can’t measure them with a Geiger counter. Clearly people in Fukushima prefecture have breathed in a large amount of these particles. Clearly the upper West Coast of the US has people being affected. That area got hit pretty heavy in April.”
And this:
In the US, physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant.
The eight cities included in the report are San Jose, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, and Boise, and the time frame of the report included the ten weeks immediately following the disaster.
If we had a real news media in this country they’d get the author of this article on, pronto, and some of the people mentioned in it, and blast this information out.
Ain’t America Great?
What. An. Unbelievable. Story:
Man Robs Bank so He Can go to Jail and Get Health Care
Often, crimes are borne of desperation. However, most robberies aren’t motivated by a desperate need for health care.
James Richard Verone, of Georgia, attempted to steal one dollar from a bank so that he would be arrested, taken to jail and — most importantly — provided with health care, the Gaston Gazette reported.
Verone worked for Coca-Cola for 17 years, but lost that job three years ago. Now 59 years old, Verone can’t handle the physical demands of the part-time jobs, like working in a convenience store, that he has successfully been hired for. Hence, he has no health care.
“The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept,” he told the Gazette. “I kind of hit a brick wall with everything.”
He had no criminal record prior to the planned robbery June 9, either. On that day, he walked into a bank, handed the teller a note demanding a dollar, then sat and waited calmly for the police to arrive and arrest him.
My God. This is what we have come to.
A Yearly Income of $6,000 is Rich?
Imagine being in a family of three, having a yearly family income of $6,000, and being told you’re too rich to qualify for health care assistance:
Despite recent polls that show Americans are just as protective of Medicaid as they are of Medicare, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is trying to gut the popular program in his state and prevent 23,000 people from receiving benefits. Christie has proposed cutting Medicaid eligibility to absurdly low levels: from the current maximum income of $24,645 to $5,317 a year for a family of three. Apparently, the governor believes a family of three making $6,000 a year is simply too rich to receive Medicaid.
This is how totally, insanely out of whack things get when politicians represent corporations and the truly rich instead of We the People.
Planned Parenthood’s “Abortionplex” — Yikes!
The Onion:
Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex
The state-of-the-art facility, which features an IMAX movie theater as well as multiple fetus incinerators.
Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday the grand opening of its long-planned $8 billion Abortionplex, a sprawling abortion facility that will allow the organization to terminate unborn lives with an efficiency never before thought possible.
During a press conference, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards told reporters that the new state-of-the-art fetus-killing facility located in the nation’s heartland offers quick, easy, in-and-out abortions to all women, and represents a bold reinvention of the group’s long-standing mission and values.
Hey, it’s The Onion folks. But no. Wingers believe it. Note some of their reactions:
– PAID FOR WITH TAX DOLLARS — MAKE ME SICK!
– Planned Parenthood’s Auschwitz . Who would have thought?
– Something is seriously wrong with our society…..WOW….I am sickened and saddened by our society.
Read more here.
Dumbed down or WHAT?
Is it any wonder Republicans what to cut funding for schools? It works to their advantage and people fall for this stuff.
Ah. Mazing.
Fox News Trashes Mitt Romney
Fox News functions like an IV to the Republican base. If Fox News (I use the word news lightly) doesn’t like you, the base won’t like you and Fox News doesn’t like Mitt Romney. I dare say Mitt Romney is done because Fox is ripping the speech he gave yesterday explaining what he did in Massachusetts with regard to “RomneyCare.”
After all, righties think providing health care to needy people is a terrible thing. Fox has convinced them of that because Fox works for the corporatocracy. Just think: All that money could go to the likes of United HealthCare and its bazillion-dollar-a-year CEO.
Duck the people.
(Via.)
How Republicans Screwed Us Today — 5/10/11
So, what did we learn today about how Republicans are f**king us? Here’s what:
Alabama’s GOP Delegation Voted Against Funding for Tornado Forecasting
U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) spent the better part of two days last week touring areas of his state devastted by killer tornadoes. Bachus was in Tuscaloosa when President Obama toured perhaps the hardest hit area in Alabama. And Bachus issued a somber statement, calling on citizens to come together to help comfort those affected by the storms.
Bachus, however, apparently neglected to mention that he and other Republicans in Alabama’s Congressional delegation voted against funding for satellites that are critical for accurate storm forecasting. The Web site climateprogress.org reports that Bachus and his fellow Alabama Republicans–Martha Roby, Mo Brooks, Robert Aderholt, Mike Rogers, and Jo Bonner–voted against a bill that would replace aging satellites that are the heart of America’s weather-forecasting system.
Boehner Goes to Wall Street and Says Hi Guys, I Work For You!
House Speaker John Boehner will step up his efforts Monday to lay out a strategy for raising the debt ceiling to a crowd heavy on Wall Street players who are anxiously watching the fierce debate over the debt ceiling unfold.
In a speech to the Economic Club of New York in Midtown Manhattan, the Ohio Republican is set to reiterate to leading financial executives that he believes that reforming Medicare should be part of negotiations in raising the debt ceiling, saying that there needs to be “an honest conversation,” because the program is on an “unsustainable path if changes are not made,” according to sources familiar with the speech. Boehner also is expected to advocate for immediate cuts rather than deficit and debt targets preferred by some Democrats.
“Reforming Medicare.” Yeah, right. The “reform” Republicans are pushing is about pouring Medicare and Medicaid dollars into the “health care” corporatocracy. They’re salivating at the thought and Boehner aims to deliver, with our tax dollars.
Florida City Paying $2,500 A Day To Radical Union-Busting Firm To Stop Workers From Organizing:
Now, the city of Winter Park, Florida, is going to new lengths to stop nearly 150 city workers from joining a union. Apparently more concerned with stopping the union than saving money, Winter Park hired consultants at Kulture LLC, “a firm specializing in labor relations” at the rate of $2,500 a day to persuade workers to vote against organizing this summer.
Don’t you just love how they have money out the wazoo for their favorite things but not for ours?
Minami-soma City’s (Japan) Mayor Posts YouTube Video Begging the World for Help
Oh my God. The mayor of the Japanese city of Minami-soma has posted a YouTube video asking the world for help:
The banks are closed and people are “literally drying up.” Basic materials are running short. We don’t have enough gasoline to reach people who are stranded. All residents of the area are totally devastated. 1,260 are missing and now we are facing the nuclear power plant accident. People can’t get supplies delivered to their homes. “Before the contamination extends further, please give us your hand to help these people. … Please help us through.”
“I would like to ask medias [sic] of all over the world for support, as well as reporting the earthquake and disaster, that we are fighting against the invisible threat of radiation and contamination.”
“Here is my sincere request to you, from all over the world, I beg you as the Mayor of Minami-soma city, to help us. Helping each other is what makes us human being. I would like to ask for your continuous support. Thank you.”
(Via.)
Amazing, isn’t it, how the US media latches onto YouTube videos of cute babies but gosh, golly, gee, despite their staffs of hundreds if not thousands, they have thus far missed this. (I heard someone on the radio today say the reporting on this nuclear disaster is going to be one of the biggest cover ups in human history.)
Don’t Have “Health” Insurance? Don’t Slip and Fall
Two weeks ago today Mr. SayItAintSoAlready slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk.
A passerby called an ambulance and he was taken to the hospital where they put seven staples in the back of his head to close a gash.
The first of the bills arrived today. $6,9412.25 for the hospital: $2,500 for a CAT scan, $4,034.00 for “Emergency Room general.” Plus other miscellaneous stuff.
The ambulance? The trip was roughly six miles: $797.00.
No word yet on what the radiologists who read the CAT scan will charge or the specialist who read the EKG (or anyone else who might send a bill).
Bottom line? The preliminary medical expenses for a slip and fall in the United States of America? Almost $8,000.
Got $8,000 lying around?
No?
Don’t slip and fall. You might not be seriously injured but it could ruin your (financial) life.
My God. I’m so glad our dear leaders are addressing this issue.
What? They’re not?
Insane Republican Priorities
I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me what the Republicans’ long-term plan for the country is.
What they’re doing doesn’t seem to be all that well thought out: New Hampshire House Approves Tax Cut on Cancer-Causing Cigarettes, Cuts Health and Education Funding.
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Too Bad Romney’s GOP Won’t Let Him Brag About RomneyCare
A Gallup poll was released last Friday showing Massachusetts has the lowest rate of people without health insurance in the nation, at 4.7%. In contrast, Texas has the highest, with 27.8%.
Yet in this crazy country, Republicans are waiting for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who signed the “socialist” health care bill into law, to unequivocally apologize for that “mistake” before he can move forward in his bid for the GOP presidential nominee in 2012.
The GOP is so insane, and providing health insurance for people is such a bad thing, Romney’s a pariah for doing what he did.
Is that nuts or what?
Men Have Abortions Too
Quickie: Last year, GOP’ers ran on their special, magical ability to create jobs. Fast forward five months and this is what they’re focusing on: South Dakota Governor Likely to Sign Strict Abortion Bill:
South Dakota’s governor said Thursday that he’ll likely sign off on new abortion guidelines that would be some of the strictest in the country, requiring women to wait 72 hours before they could go through with the procedure and to submit to counseling about why they shouldn’t.
What about them jobs?
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Oh, and BTW. Do Republicans know that males play a part in making babies?
Guess not, because boys and men are never part of their discussion.
Yo, Repubs: Pass legislation mandating that the impregnator be with the woman for the 72-hours she has to wait “before the procedure,” and that the man go through counseling “about why they shouldn’t,” with her.
Remember. It takes two to make a baby.
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Waiting for the Tea Party to Have a Fit About This
Let’s see. The RAND Corporation is part of the ruling class (to say the least) and it has hundreds of friends in high places. RAND Corporation executives probably hobnob with the Koch brothers so chances are good the Tea Party masterminds won’t send a memo out to their minions telling them to have a fit about this ridiculous, wasteful spending: RAND Received $7.4 Million Congressional Grant to Study Military Chiropractic Care.
Is the effectiveness of chiropractic care still in doubt? I thought we’d moved beyond that.
Anti-Health Care GOP Rep. Leonard Lance Receives State-Funded Health Care Coverage
All you can do is shake your head and wonder why these guys keep lying. (Well, actually, we know why they lie. Because the media doesn’t usually follow up on anything they say. But in this case it did.)
Okay, this one is funny. As you know, Dems and lefty groups have been loudly insisting that House Republicans in favor of repealing the Affordable Care Act should forego the “government run” insurance they enjoy as members of Congress.
One of those GOPers is Rep. Leonard Lance of New Jersey, a fiscal hawk who opposes the health reform law out of opposition to big government. He is in the crosshairs of an ad by Blue America PAC accusing him of enjoying taxpayer-funded insurance.
After that ad started running, Lance’s office protested that he is not enrolled in the plan enjoyed by members of Congress, and successfully got the ad pulled. But in response, New Jersey’s Courier-Post did some digging and found that as a retired state government official, he and his family do enjoy taxpayer-funded health care on the state level:
Lance opposes the health care reform package on cost concerns — he’s a deficit hawk — and on small-government principles.
But it turns out he receives medical care for practically nothing, thanks to the taxpayers of New Jersey. Lance receives family health coverage that is free except for co-pays, the state Department of Treasury confirmed Friday. The former state senator, assemblyman and Kean administration official qualified for retirement in 2006, his 25th year of service. He retired in January 2009, when he moved on to Washington, and enrolled in the state’s free health plan for retirees.
The family plan Lance is enrolled in is the most expensive of the 10 options available. His coverage costs $1,906.42 per month, or $22,877.04 per year.
What a Possible Stroke Looks Like
CBS News reporter Serene Branson was reporting live from the Grammy’s last night when she apparently suffered a stroke:
Branson was hospitalized but there is no word yet as to exactly what happened.
Scary.
Hey, Who Cares If Our Food’s Contaminated?
OK folks. Here is a partial list of what the Republicans want to cut from the “jobs killing” budget:
Job training programs $2 billion — I thought they were going zero in like a laser on creating jobs.
Environmental Protection Agency $1.6 billion — Wouldn’t want their corporate benefactors to have to deal with any anti-pollution regs, now would we.
National Institutes of Health $1 billion — Who cares about finding cures for diseases, huh? Let’s leave it up to the “private sector.”
Science programs $1.1 billion — We’ll let China take care of the science stuff.
High-speed rail $1 billion — Oil is going to run out eventually.
Community health centers $1.3 billion — Pay now or pay later.
Clean water programs $950 million – Pfsst. Clean water? What are we? A bunch of babies?
Cleaner energy $900 million — Again, oil is going to run out eventually. Love this foward-looking stuff.
Child nutrition for the poor $758 million — Who cares if our kids are malnourished to the point of being developmentally disabled huh?
Centers for Disease Control $755 million — Just wait until the next flu epidemic when there’s no CDC to warn us or track its progress.
Internal Revenue Service $593 million — So, we aren’t going to collect taxes? How’s that gonna work in terms of funding even the most basic stuff — the stuff they want to keep?
Community block grants $405 million — Crumbling cities? No problem.
Family planning $327 million — Hey, lets all have 12 kids!
Treasury Department $268 million — Whatever.
State, local law enforcement $256 million — They don’t care if we’re out here, sick, dying because we’re breathing polluted air and drinking tainted water, robbing each other because we’re unemployed. They’ll be in their gated communities.
Amtrak rail service $224 million — Again, crowded freeways? They don’t have to drive on them.
Food and Drug Administration $220 million — The next time people are dropping dead because of contaminated spinach, we’ll be on our own.
Hey, why don’t they just ship us all to Somalia?
Where’s the Jobs Bill Republicans?
Remember back, before the election (of course), when Republican were screaming about the need for the country’s top priority to be jobs, jobs, jobs?
Speaker of the House John Boehner: “When are we going to address the number one issue on the minds of our fellow citizens? When are we going to focus on the economy and getting people back to work, instead of all of the job-killing policies that we’re seeing move through this Congress? When are we going to begin to listen once again to the American people who sent us here to do their work?” [Boehner Release, 3/26/10]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: “The American people want us to put aside the left-wing wish list and work together on helping to create jobs and restore the economy to health and prosperity. There is no reason the two parties can’t work together on achieving these goals.” [McConnell Speech, 11/4/10]
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: “In his speech to representatives of small businesses and contractors who belong to the trade group, Cantor said President Barack Obama has gone from being the ‘hope and change candidate of 2008’ to creating disillusionment by concentrating on health care when he should have been seeking to promote jobs and the economy.” [Richmond Times Dispatch, 3/31/10]
Where’s all that urgency now?
So far they’ve “repealed” Obamacare and now they’re moving on to try to defund Planned Parenthood and to ban taxpayer money for abortions.
As for jobs? Crickets.
More on the “Liberal Media”
Steve Benen over at the Washington Monthly points out that while there have been two court rulings upholding health care reform (the Affordable Care Act) and two invalidating all or parts of it, the rulings against the Act have received far, far more attention than those in favor:
And yet, the coverage discrepancy is overwhelming. One of the two pro-reform rulings didn’t even make the Washington Post’s A section at all. In literally every instance, the Republican-friendly rulings generated more coverage, with better placement, and longer stories than the rulings preferred by Democrats.
Ah yes. The march of the, ahem, liberal media.
Hate the Public Mandate? Freeloader Alert!
Anthony Weiner was on “The Last Word” tonight talking about the ruling that came down today overturning “Obamacare,” including the part of the bill known as the “public mandate,” which states that people who don’t purchase health insurance will be fined.
Wingers, cheer all you want but think about this for a sec: You’re driving your car on an icy road tonight and a slacker slides into you. You both get out of your car and the slackerass guy says he doesn’t have insurance.
Fast forward three months and your insurance company says oops, sorry bud. You pay. The other guy doesn’t have any money.
You’d call that a**hole a freeloader, right? You’d be pissed. He got off scot-free and he didn’t pay a dime but the cost of what he did is spread amongst everyone in your insurance pool. You pay for what happened as does the next guy and the next guy and the next guy who got hit by someone who didn’t have insurance.
Well, that would be you if you don’t buy health insurance.
We all pay and if you don’t, you’re a freeloader, mooching off those of us who — as you love to say — take responsibility, pay their bills and “do the right thing.”
Need Health Insurance? Your GOP Member of Congress Doesn’t Care
Here is the audio of a radio ad ActBlue hopes to air in states whose Republican congresspeople voted to keep their “socialist” health insurance but voted to rescind that of their citizens:
Contribute to the effort here if you’re so inclined.
