Just got back from Haiti couple weeks back. Momma & Daddy said I need to get back down here and help since they’re practically neighbors to where I was raised. What a mess. And then I come home to hear all this whiny crap about health care and big government. Waah, waah, waah. Wanna know what small government and no health insurance looks like? Go down there to Haiti. It’s just a peach pie o’ paradise since they ain’t got no government intrusion, or regulatin’ to get in the way of citizens rights and all.
So Jus’ a few observations…
Careful ‘bout spreading stuff about a thing without lookin’ at it first hand. “Facts” that them turds at Fox, or Rush, or Beck, or Hannity or them saintly tea-baggers are spreadin’ aren’t really factual. You should take a look here:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/twenty-six-lies-about-hr-3200/
Government’s actually gotten smaller over time if you count up the number of federal employees against our ever-changing population of the country. No pattern to historical growth between different administrations. Fed, State, local – gotta take all three into account because as them things we count on get reduced, like road or highway maintenance (my favorites – ain’t nothing like a smooth ribbon of rock to ride my wheels on, and I like the idea that helped pay for it), them reductions gotta be made up for somehow in other ways. The need don’t go away. The burden just shifts.
Government all grew under George The 2nd, shrunk under Clinton, grew under George The 1st, shrunk slightly under Reagan, grew under Carter, stayed ‘bout the same under Nixon/Ford. Grew/Repub, Shrunk/Dem, Grew/Repub, Shrunk/Repub, Grew/Dem, No-change/Repub. Not a real consistent pattern there is it? If they was dogs, they’d all get their noses rubbed in it.
You’re already legally required to have auto insurance to ensure that someone else don’t have to pay for your accidents. Deciding to only get or pay for medical insurance only until you need it is a little like whipping out your cell phone to buy auto insurance after you’ve already gotten in that fender-bender. That’s why it’s called insurance.
So follow the logic for bit here:
- Them doctor creeds require health care to be rendered to everyone. Think of emergency rooms – car wrecks, serious illness, cancer, heart problems, other stuff. Not talkin’ ‘bout that little cold or infection that we all waive off.
- That care costs money. Salary, equipment, medicine, chemicals, lights, and building maintenance – my favorite.
- Because care has to be given, but the injured or infirm don’t have to pay, the cost of that non-paid-for care gets divided up against people and plans that can pay.
14th Amendment don’t apply, because this is a federal law, and not some cracker state law. Maybe you recall that the 14th was a result of the Civil War where a number of states didn’t like their slaves being called “equal” or whatever their excuse was. Makes more sense to cite the 14th to gripe about auto insurance, because auto insurance requirements make US citizens to get insurance at the risk of forfeiting their privilege to drive.
Voting… the deal and finagling thing probably ain’t much different than any other bill that has deals & finagling going on. Nothing really new there. And you did get to vote on it when you voted for your congressman and senator who represent you – that’s how representative governance works. You vote for them, they make the laws.
Paying for it… yup, that’s us. Less than $300/yr for every US man, woman, and child for the next 10 years if our population doesn’t grow; if it does, then it’s less per person. What’s the price of major medical “incident” that wipes out a family’s financial resources? I’m guessing it’d be more than $300 a year.
Oh yeah, English teeth… well, if they have “gorgeous” teeth, then there’s not a basis of comparison that’s valid. But nonetheless, Snopes.com has a good discussion about that particular myth:
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=42;t=000292;p=0
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