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Tiny thoughts on the current Health Care debates:
1) No one should be afraid to go to the doctor because they can't afford it. I have great insurance and love knowing that I can walk into any care facility and get whatever treatment I need. Over the past year, I've had regular check-ups, x-rays for my birthday dancing foot injury, and a visit to the Emergency Room. My total out-of-pocket costs were exactly no dollars and no cents. Not even a $10 co-pay. It's amazing and I love it, and I wish that everyone could get exactly the same thing. We have to figure out a way to do that.
2) I heard a commercial in favor of some sort of all-encompassing Health Care plan from Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart supports something, it's probably not because it helps people, it's because it helps Wal-Mart. The problem with government sponsored medical plans is that it gives corporations the opportunity to outsource yet another expense.
3) Remember when we had that other president and he cut federal funding to all sorts of programs that provided birth control? And how he definitely wouldn't let any money get within twenty feet of any organization that could spell a-b-o-r-t-i-o-n? Remember that other thing about not funding stem cell research? If we do manage to get some kind of public health care plan going, how afraid should we be that, if we get another anti-choice, anti-science president, he will make sure that program does not provide any services related to those fields? What if it got worse than that and denied treatment for people with STD's? Instead of a perscription, they'd be handed a pamphlet that reads, "And so ye shall reap what ye've sown."
4) Anti Wal-Mart stance and Orwellian paranoia aside, I heard a man from Belgium on NPR saying that he felt sorry for US auto-workers because while he too was an auto-worker losing his job, it wouldn't mean poverty for him. Get that? People in Belgium feel sorry for us. US! The greatest nation in the world! Because we're too ding dang selfish to take care of each other! We totally need to figure out this health care thing. Totally.
5) I accidentally listend to that nudge Ed Norris on the radio today for about one and a half-minutes. He was talking about unfair it was that rich people pay more in taxes. His argument is that they did things that allowed them to be rich while poor people did things that made them remain poor. He didn't mention anything about the money he lifted from Baltimore City, but I strongly suspect he feels he shouldn't pay any special taxes on that either... I'm off topic, aren't I?
6) What do you think smart people?
1) No one should be afraid to go to the doctor because they can't afford it. I have great insurance and love knowing that I can walk into any care facility and get whatever treatment I need. Over the past year, I've had regular check-ups, x-rays for my birthday dancing foot injury, and a visit to the Emergency Room. My total out-of-pocket costs were exactly no dollars and no cents. Not even a $10 co-pay. It's amazing and I love it, and I wish that everyone could get exactly the same thing. We have to figure out a way to do that.
2) I heard a commercial in favor of some sort of all-encompassing Health Care plan from Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart supports something, it's probably not because it helps people, it's because it helps Wal-Mart. The problem with government sponsored medical plans is that it gives corporations the opportunity to outsource yet another expense.
3) Remember when we had that other president and he cut federal funding to all sorts of programs that provided birth control? And how he definitely wouldn't let any money get within twenty feet of any organization that could spell a-b-o-r-t-i-o-n? Remember that other thing about not funding stem cell research? If we do manage to get some kind of public health care plan going, how afraid should we be that, if we get another anti-choice, anti-science president, he will make sure that program does not provide any services related to those fields? What if it got worse than that and denied treatment for people with STD's? Instead of a perscription, they'd be handed a pamphlet that reads, "And so ye shall reap what ye've sown."
4) Anti Wal-Mart stance and Orwellian paranoia aside, I heard a man from Belgium on NPR saying that he felt sorry for US auto-workers because while he too was an auto-worker losing his job, it wouldn't mean poverty for him. Get that? People in Belgium feel sorry for us. US! The greatest nation in the world! Because we're too ding dang selfish to take care of each other! We totally need to figure out this health care thing. Totally.
5) I accidentally listend to that nudge Ed Norris on the radio today for about one and a half-minutes. He was talking about unfair it was that rich people pay more in taxes. His argument is that they did things that allowed them to be rich while poor people did things that made them remain poor. He didn't mention anything about the money he lifted from Baltimore City, but I strongly suspect he feels he shouldn't pay any special taxes on that either... I'm off topic, aren't I?
6) What do you think smart people?