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vnsmyth has been a member since 3/19/07 and was last logged in on 8/26/16

My son's rant 8/27/09 5:52 PM

Wow, 2 new blogs in less than 24 hours!!!! I had to post this it is great. I'm proud of my son.

Mike S. to me
show details 4:53 PM (54 minutes ago)


...What a JOKE this has become. For the past 8 years we have had a Republican President that for 6 of those, had a well trained, roll over, and do as you're told Congress, and they did NOTHING to try and help the American People with the rising cost of health care.

Now, they have all these so called Ideas which I have yet to hear one that would actually bring about cost relief for the Americans, maybe give the Insurance companies even more profit, but that's about it. Since the American people voted for change, their new strategy is to simply say NO, to everything. Oh, and of course their SCARE TATICS!

Socialized Health Care…hmmmm, lets think about this…. The Postal Service, the Fire departments, Schools, the Military, Roads, State Parks, the Police, and of course, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, the VA hospitals… hell even our Hospitals are socialized to a degree.. They will make you sign papers agreeing to pay their over inflated prices without telling you the total cost before rendering service, but you can get care, even if it’s just some duct tape without actually fixing the problem. I could come up with MANY other forms of “Socialized Programs” here in America.

The so called “Death Panels”! Oh no, not the Death Panels!! They want to give the people a chance to create a living will. Give them the chance not to get their last days being over shadowed by worries of “How are we going to pay for this”, “Should we leave them on life support for an unknown amount of time”, “who is going to get everything once they pass”, sounds like a good idea to me. Funny how it’s a Georgia Republican that actually helped bring that about for Medicare patients. Now that there is an actual attempt to have an educated debate though, the “Death Panel” sure can sound scary for those seniors that don’t really understand what the debate is all about.

Single Payer, wow, what a great idea that is! All the doctors can cut out all the middle men and paper work that has to be processed thru the insurance companies. We can get to cut out all the CEO’s that make their record Bonuses for denying you the needed heath care, after you had paid for X number of year your premiums. Think they don’t already do that? Get cancer; lose your job, get a new job, and then try to get on the new insurance. Good luck to you on that because now you have the dreaded “Preexisting Condition”! Chances are you will get “Let Go” from your job that you did have because you were becoming an expense to the company to keep you on. Yes, you having high health care cost will end up costing EVERYONE in the company you work for. How long do you think they will keep you on if they know they can lower the cost?

The Government will tell you which doctor you can go to…Guess they have never been on a HMO, thanks for that Nixon! If you like a doctor that’s not in your “Network” I hope you have deep pockets! These are things that already happen with companies we all pay GOOD DAMN MONEY to! With the Single payer system you would go to your doctor, they would submit it to the Health Care system and the bill would be paid for.

How will we ever pay for this! That is the simplest of all issues! Let’s talk prohibition. Yes, I know, Drugs are bad for you and Marijuana is a DRUG. But lets think about this, how many people die from prescription pills, Alcohol, tobacco...Let me answer that for you, A LOT more than has even died from smoking a little herb! Our prison system is full of people that have broken the law buying or selling a plant that can be grown, picked and smoked. Hell, Tobacco has to be processed to be smoked. I say we legalize it, tax it! Let out the so called convicts from the prisons which will free up Billions a year of Tax dollars. The violence of importing it and trying to hide it would be gone because hell, it’s legal. IN California alone the Mexican drug cartels generate nearly 14 BILLION a year in crops, give that to AMERICAN farmers! Wow, we just freed up Hundreds of Billions for the Government each year! But there is more…

Taxes, I say we tax things we KNOW are bad for us. Not a lot, say 2%. We all know sodas, candy, little Debbie’s, Fast food, Alcohol, tobacco/marijuana products are bad for us…add a 2% tax that will go straight to the health care funds. Oh and guess what... since we legalized marijuana, now a lot of those things will be bought by the stoners with the munchies! Double positive hu ;)

Do you realize that the amount that we spend in 6 months in Iraq equals the same amount that they are projecting the cost for a Single Payer system over a 5 year period? Hmmm I didn’t hear anyone screaming when it came to attacking a country that we have since found out was a bunch lies to get us into there. Get our troops home, from Germany, Vietnam, and any where else we have huge bases set up... Use them to protect our borders... We just eliminated another HUGE cost that.

Ok... I am done with my rant for now... I’m sure I may get ill again when I listen to more of the stupid debate that I keep hearing!

Comments

  • markandmonkey

    Love it! Isn't it insane how the right wing republican lobby think that the American people are too stupid to see through their scare tactics?


    I love politics as long as it's MSNBC!!! I get so mad at the Republicans. They are for the top 1% of Americans. I wouldn't even vote for them if I were part of the 1%. They are for no one but big business.

  • withwings

    well done mike and virginia! a very interesting and informative rant.at least someone cares!

  • debbsie

    Oh, well done, I say Virginia you shold now go for Senator.... Hey with all that stuff, you could stand up and be counted and getvoted in for it. Seriously,HEALTHCARE is a major issue in every country - England is being INVADED by free loaders from other states...... I wont go on walls have ears.x

  • SneakyShrink

    I have been thinking about a national lottery. Look at all the good that came out of Georgia's and the Hope Scholarship. Kids actually try a whole lot harder to get their college paid for and the ranking of our schools has grown in prestige nationally. We could pay for Health care as easily.

  • til1124

    He does have some very good points there!...Irene