Change I believed in
Four entries (one private) in two days? This is unheard of for me!
I’m angry and pissed off and wanting to scream but have no outlet so here I am.
If I hear/see/read one more flaming, uninformed idiot spouting one more egregious lie about what was to have been one MASSIVE step in the right direction for our country regarding healthcare I will freaking lose my head. I will absolutely lose it!
I don’t know how some of these people have made it as far in age as they have. I don’t know how somebody can see a commercial or a single report from a single newspaper or ‘news’ report and take it for fact without doing any more research of their own into the matter. Part of learning, part of growing, part of being a thinker involves taking matters from both sides, filtering through the bullshit, pulling out the consistancies and facts, and then forming your own opinions based on those facts. I don’t know how people can take a broad reform and chop down to a single matter like abortion and run with it to the point in which their precieved idea no longer even remotely resembles what congress was really trying to pass. I just can’t wrap my mind around how people can be so dense.
This wasn’t about abortion. This wasn’t about leaving our seniors to die. This wasn’t about killing babies with down’s syndrome. This wasn’t about becoming a socialist nation or following in the footsteps of Hitler or Russia. This was about forcing our out-of-control insurance companies to stop treating the people of our country like nothing more than a fat multi-billion dollar paycheck and holding them accountable for what they were supposed to do in the first place: provide a safety net for their customers and a way to make healthcare more affordable for each of us in the long run.
In our great nation people should not be dying because they can’t get afford healthcare. People should not be pinned under $2,500 per month in medical and perscription costs due to a lost job and an inability to get insured because of a pre-exsting condition and gaps in coverage. That, my friends, is what is happening today, right now in our broken system. Please, please tell me how that is in any way superior to the alternative healthcare OPTION that our government was trying to pass recently.
OPTION. OPTION. OPTION. An OPTION that would have at least brought us into the 20th-freaking- century in terms of the healthcare of other industrialized nations. An OPTION that would have only provided healthy competition for the current insurance companies, thus reigning them in and bringing down costs. Because isn’t that what this is all about? Money? Money rules the world, right? Money is everything.
God bless our country and the idiots in it. God bless the first-freaking-amendment and the disgusting excuses for human beings that take advantage of it by knowingly spreading lies to those idiots. God bless them all.
Amen sista.
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Preach it!
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wonderfully put
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you get it girl
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Cheers! Kudos! Standing ovation!
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Amen to that.
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Well done, Ive been telling my friends in the USA and other places that have the same format of health care that the only people winning in this game are those that are pulling in vast amounts of money and dont want a good free health care system for all, UK has one as you know and we do knock it quite often, mainly about waiting times but over all its a very good system for the amount of money that is taken out of our wages. we do have private health care also and only those well off get that 🙂
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If I hear that Obama is Hitler anymore I think I’ll puke. It’s insane! You’re very well informed.
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I couldn’t agree more. I love it!!!
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I’m with you….and it’s hell being surrounded by some of these people…
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Saw you on the front page and had to chime in: I’ve been without health insurance since I graduate from college last year; I can’t afford it, so I also can’t afford a doctor. Today I got stung by a bee and had a moderate reaction. I panicked, only because I knew I couldn’t afford any treatment if it got worse. I am angry at rich people who fight for me to have no other options than this.
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ryn I suppose you’re right. In the interest of accuracy, I amend the above statement to, I’m angry with stupid people who fight for me to have no other option than this. I hope the venting is helpful for you, by the way.
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people are worried it will be like the UK, where they ration out test/ surgery’s ect. AS long as that doesnt happy i think its great!
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It’s nice to read someone who is actually informed and giving an opinion. Well said…I couldn’t agree more!
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fvck america.
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Well said!
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I agree! I couldn’t have said it better myself!
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I’m not particularly well informed about the ins and outs of health care legislation. I think in general something has to be done, but I’ve been wary of Obama’s insistence that we will all benefit and there will be no downsides to his particular plan. I suspect that overall we might be better off, but some individuals would not be.
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The talk about getting rid of “tests we don’t need” is a minor concern to me as well. I run scientific tests for a living, and my results always come with a degree of uncertainty – I imagine medical tests do as well. Redundant testing might not be cost effective, but is it really useless? I’m not sure. But it seems like this legislation is aiming to both solve problems of bad economics and bad
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medical practices. I think it’s important not to conflate the two. That may be where the death panel rumors come from ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080703043.html ). I think end of life discussions is a good idea, and the government has an interest in promoting it. But I felt the same about a State requiring doctors to show
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(or offer to show) ultrasound images to women considering abortion. That upset a lot of people too. Anything involving both government and doctors is bound to, apparently. And one more thing about abortion: it’s true while this legislation isn’t supposed to be about it, it does raise the question, right? We are talking about how to pay for medical care, but our society is not in agreement
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about whether abortion is a medical procedure or a human rights violation. So there is a tension there and I understand why pro-life Democrats find themselves in a difficult position. Hopefully reform of some kind will go though, I just don’t know what that will/should look like and how much it will help.
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I am tired of people hiding behind all the excuses you list, when the problem really is that they are scared of the president for no rational reason (FAUX NEWS). Stupid, stupid, people. It’s sad.
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Someone/something is fueling the lies. Its not just the people we see on tv its the ones who are behind them propagating the lies. And since there are mainly two groups who would either loose/loose face my bets on them. Insurance companies/those who ‘hate’ this administration. This was my fav townhall meeting though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8
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Amen!!
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i’m totally totally with you. totally.
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ryn: I’ve really only heard GOOD things about a beagle’s personality. I think I just had a really bad experience with the HORRIBLY misbehaved ones I had to deal with every day. I’m definitely keeping my mind open about it and I’m really excited to have a dog again. I know Jayden will love her so that’s already a huge bonus lol 🙂
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I agree with your first couple sentences completely! Obama’s statement that the cable news has been RUINING this reform is so right on. take care, sofie
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the problem is, the economy is far too broken right now for this. 9 TRILLION dollars in debt over the next decade, massive bailouts that have accomplished nothing and double-digit unemployment mean that the spending we should be doing should be on putting Americans back to work, not tackling this issue now. If he really wanted effective reform, malpractice lawsuit abuse is the place to do it.
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