My best friend is taking a class on “critical thinking”, and the topic du jour is “health care”. Read her classmate’s logic (and my responses, which are afterwards, in bold). Tell me if you think he is projecting his self-loathing onto others (which might be symptomatic of our nationwide sociopathy and is therefore scarier than being Dick Cheney’s buddy on a hunting trip).
He writes -
Um…, we are going to have to do some “tweaking” here. I feel the main issue with government health care reform is that it will increase taxes on the wealthy.
As well it should. When you live in a country that allows you the breathing room to do well, then you have the responsibility of giving back - yes, even to illegals, who help feed your family for cheap.
The majority of citizens believe that it is unfair to increase health care cost to those who have earned well paying jobs and pay for good medical coverage.
“Earning” a well-paying job has nothing to do with it. I know people who earn 44.00 an hour and the job doesn’t come with health care. I know people who get 10.00 an hour and it does come with health care. It has nothing to do with “earning” a well paying job and everything to do with getting a job at a place which offers health care.
I can understand where they are coming from because there are many citiznes of the United States who have basically under achieved in life.
What does under-achievement have to do with it? Most SELF-EMPLOYED people with homes, businesses, and the mental fortitude to strike out on their own are far from “under achievers” - yet do a count - most of these people are un-insurable.
Another issue, is that under government health care reform, illegal immigrants who defect to the U.S. are entitled to healthcare coverage. That doesn’t sit well with a lot of people.
It also doesn’t sit well with a lot of people that a hard-working, successful, small business person can lose his / her entire life’s savings due to illness - because some other people don’t want illegals getting health care (news flash - they already do, it’s called “Medicaid”).
Your statement about persons receiving free health care from the military opposing healthcare government healthcare reform isn’t exactly true. There are many Department of Defense, Government Specialists, and military personnel who side with the new healthcare reform, I being one of them. Mainly because we understand that not having reform actually drives healthcare costs up.
The costs go up in direct relation to how much privately-owned Medicare Advantage can wrangle out of the government. Refer back to the”donut hole” and the lost rights of Medicare to price-bargain with Big Pharma.
The costs of medicines, utensils, equipment and surgeries increase across the board each year. The main contributing factor to that is providing healthcare to patients without medical coverage. So providing healthcare to everyone (even the under achievers), assists with driving costs down (through time).
It’s like he’s making the point FOR health care, here. He lost me.
My issue is giving healthcare coverage to illegal immigrants.
The real issue is - which strategy will make the US a more competitive, co-operative force in the global economy. Feeling angry about illegals getting health care is not reason enough to deny it to tax-paying, hard-working citizens who have the “American Dream” guts enough to strike out on their own, work diligently, and achieve. They are currently being punished for the sake of illegals.
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This guy said he is “for health care, but only if illegals aren’t allowed to get it.”
Illegals ALREADY HAVE HEALTH CARE. It’s investment-holding citzens who are tax-paying and hard-working who lack the damned stuff and desperately need it.
Duh.
Saying, “I’m for health care, but only if illegals aren’t included”, is like saying, “I’m for gay rights, but only if the gays who want to adopt aren’t included.” Or, “I’m for women’s right to vote, but only if the women promise to vote the way their menfolk tell them to.” How about, “I’m for abolishing slavery, but only if any new cargo of captives that comes from the Congo aren’t included.” Let’s punish all gays because some want to adopt, let’s crush all women’s votes because some won’t do as they’re told, let’s smackdown all blacks because new ones are arriving to our shores daily…let’s deny health care to all Americans because illegals are hopping across the border.
And by all means, let’s ignore the fact that America is as much to blame for sad state of Mexico’s economy since we made an under-handed trade deal with their government three generations ago.
Bah. People are stupid. PEOPLE ARE STUPID.
I’m in a mood to be anti-stupid people today. None better cross my path or it’ll get bitchsmacked with kym’s ultra-snarky, mean and menacing, evil wicked clue-by-four. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Tags: anti-health care mentality, health care reform, People are stupid
You don’t like the way we do Federal government business now?
Long story longer, I decided to look for the pamphlet to see for myself. And when I found it, I discovered, it’s a 20 page booklet about people who live with HIV, and it’s a great educational tool. It’s a little graphic but it’s nothing that young women or young men shouldn’t know or read. It discusses safe sex, HIV laws in various countries, and the fact that even with HIV, a person is still a sexual being. It’s not subversive or disgusting, it’s liberating and honest. 
