I’ll have to admit, this is the longest rant about one of my posts. First off, I am satirical, so I use potty-words, especially when comes to people like Bob Ellis and ironic Johnny, and secondly, Thune’s testimony can be summed up very quickly; Him and the GOP have no plan for healthcare reform besides tax credits, which is not reform. Tax credits already exist, and if they worked, we would not need reform.
Have a chuckle on me;
We pay, now, the price for what is the best medical industry in the world.  And take this into consideration in its fullness:  our infrastructure, our research, and our treatments, together, all have a price tag that is far larger than that of other countries, to be sure.  But other countries pay $0 for the investment that is the research cost that we pay with our dollars and time.  They only pay the price of the new “treatment†as it is in the current system (excluding factors like tariffs, export taxes, government regulations, etc.), whereas each time we go to the doctor, in addition to paying for the services rendered, the cost of investing in the best health care system in the world is included in our bill.
BAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, we pay twice as much as other industrialized nations and rate 35th. Even Cuba who pays their doctors $30 a month has a less infant mortality rate then us. Keep spreading the bullshit, and you teabaggers will get your way. Thank goodness there is no Hell, because they would reserve a special room for you.
I believe she used to post at the AL forum.
She left after we made fun of her for thinking Obama is some sort of secret terrorist in disguise.
She’s S-M-R-T!
The part that makes me laugh, is how can you have that big of a post about something so simple? Thune’s only solution is something that already exists and does not work. In other words, NO PLAN.
What is disturbing is that the wingnut bloggers constantly post their ravings about other blogs and just put on display the fact that they are too ignorant and stupid to understand anything they read if contains a modicum of wit or irony. And they vote on what they can’t understand.
On the issues, have Fastidious (and everyone else you know) watch the latest Bill Moyers broadcast on America’s inferior health care system:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08282009/watch.html
Among the details:
“We’re something like the… We’re not the best health care system in the world in infant mortality rates. We’re like number 23. There is an index that is used in rating health care systems, which is the rate of mortality that could have been prevented by health care. There are at least a dozen countries with lower rates of preventable mortalities than the United States and not one of those countries spends 60 percent of what we do on health care.”
So is the above comment on the order of Bachmann’s remarks? Just crazy??!!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/01/bachmann-slit-our-wrists/
Yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) delivered a “speech filled with urgent and violent rhetoric†at a gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute in Denver. During what was originally billed as a “personal legislative briefing,†Bachmann “got downright biblical†when describing her unwavering opposition to health care reform:
“This [health care reform] cannot pass…What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass…Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom. And we may never be able to restore it if we don’t man up and take this one on.â€
What I find ironic in that the conservative do-gooders not wanting health care reform is that I’m sure the Bible that they are so fond of quoting would indicate that the Jesus they believe in would believe that everybody should have affordable health care. After all he healed the leper.
… and a dead guy.
She sure knows how to dial the crazy up to 11.
“After all he healed the leper.”
AND HE DID IT FOR FREE!
Gosh – I hope Michelle isn’t really going to slit her wrists – we need her! Every circus needs a clown or two.
Like Olbermann said after reading her entire quote, “I agree with the first part of your statement.”
Hello all,
Thank you for the kind remarks.
You can see my response here:
http://fastidious.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/the-irrelevance-of-statistics/
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