Here comes the healthcare debate crazies

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Of course only in South Dakota would we have people against saving Americans, hospitals and employers billions on healthcare;

As Dean spoke, Melvin VandenTop, 53, of Sioux Falls stood to protest the hearing as a tool to squeeze certain Americans out of needed care.

“This is genocide!” he shouted.

The only thing that is genocide is the millions of Americans each year who die or suffer from the lack of having proper healthcare.

Barry Zachariahs, 55, listened to speakers at the Terrace Park rally.

 

“Overall we have a system that has worked well,” he said. “Why do we have to go and have a virtual government takeover of it?”

Hey, Barry, can I have some of that Medical Mary Jane you are smoking? Of course, the BS gets deeper, when you have a doctor who is in private practice and owns his own clinic opposed to it. Dr. Curd who would probably lose millions in profits each year due to a National Healthcare System had this lie to spread at a kook rally yesterday;

“Do we change the entire system for 7 percent of the population?” He asked.

BAHAHAHAHA! Nice figure, “DR.” I found this story about poverty basically proving Curd is full of shit;

Sioux Falls-based Voices for Children says 33,000 people younger than 18 – or 17 percent of all children in South Dakota – live below the federal poverty line of $21,027 for a family of four.

Yeah, I suppose all of them are receiving world-class healthcare? The only thing that is leading these rallies against National Healthcare is greed.

Have you had a heaping helping of BS today?

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Well I am here to serve it up. A SouthDaCola foot soldier sent me this ‘Fact Sheet’ written by the good doctor(?) Allen Unruh. After reading it, I realized that it was the script he was reading from when he was on KCPO’s Sunday Political comedy show, The Facts.

I suppose he does make a few valid points, but who knows, since he doesn’t back any of the statements up with footnotes on where he got the information. It’s kind of like saying Abstinence education works because Allen’s wife says so.

I would like to remind Allen that in a recent NY Times poll, 72% of Americans support a National insurance plan, and 57% would be willing to pay more taxes for it. If you don’t want to be a part of the plan, don’t enroll. Seems pretty simple to me. But how can we bash Obama and the congressional Democrats if we don’t lie?

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This week’s observation: Iran and Universal Healthcare

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Iran’s new President, and he isn’t wearing a ‘Member’s Only’ jacket.

When I turned on my version of Sunday sports events to sports fans (the Sunday political shows) this morning, I was very disappointed, but not surprised. The topic, in between pharma commercials and right wing anti-healthcare reform was that somehow a revolution was coming to Iran and Universal Healthcare for Americans would destroy the country.

Bullshit.

First off, I’m not going to rant forever, afterall, that’s why I have Eggbert as a contributor, but I will say this, it doesn’t matter if Mickey Mouse was the president of Iran, the country is ran by a theocratic dictator not a president. And unless the people rise up and overthrow him in the name of democracy, things will be exactly the same tomorrow.

And secondly, I find all of the negative news coverage of universal healthcare not surprising. Who funds media? Pharma, hospitals and insurance companies. Without them they have no advertisers. Just look at our local TV station, KELOSANFORDLAND-TV, Why would they cheerlead socialized medicine? Seriously?

I’ll have to say, this week in politics has been a wash, unless you count Ironic Johnny walking over the body of one of his fellow Republicans to take advantage of an opportunity that was handed to him on the back of a cheating whore.

The 'FACTS' got it factual for once

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Yesterday on KCPO’s conservative windbag machine ‘The Facts’ they had on guest Professor of Law, Micheal Myers who used to work for Mayo clinic. They talked about the future of healthcare. Professor Myers was shockingly honest about medicine. He basically says that prescription drugs are poisoning us and America needs to get off of them. But the shocker of the program was when host Canfield kept pressuring Myers for an answer about socialized medicine. Finally Canfield got tired of dancing around the question so he just asks it, and Myers response was great. “Yes, I think the future of healthcare in America will have to be socialized medicine, that’s the only way it will survive (paraphrasing).” Then he went on to say it was the only way that makes sense BUT he also said that you have to take out the capitalistic / money making structure of the healthcare industry to make it work, which he concedes is what has made it so expensive.

Myers isn’t your normal fly by night windbag that they usually have on the program. He is 72 and worked in the healthcare industry most of his life for one of the top hospitals in the world. It was an incredible interview (basically Myers talking and Canfield sitting there dumbfounded by Myers’ honesty).

One funny part about the interview was when Myers says, “People are worried socialized medicine would destroy America’s high standard of care we have now   . . .  really  . . . we kill aproximately 200,000 people a year in our hospitals and we rate #27 in healthcare of industrialized nations.”

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