History Of Health Care Reform Efforts

This essay really knocked me out for a loop when I read it. Alot of the data presented I’ve known about but had no idea it was this extensive and more.

It’s fine to have an opposing viewpoint to a subject, but to methodically engage in a long term sinister opposition based on greed, spite, and hate is just too much. It’s a damned shame that the conservatives in the U.S. have had such a downright evil history of oppression of their fellow human beings as opposed to their counterparts elsewhere in the world. Conservatives are supposed to be God-fearing folks who look out for what’s right. However in the U.S. there’s this ongoing group of pseudo-conservatives that for over a century have ruined the conservative movement with their lies, schemes, greed, and hate.

Here’s one test of a conservative: Are they in church alot?

If not, they’re full of more shit than a constipated elephant.

Criminals are found in all political parties and institutions because it’s easy to latch on to groups of people and dispense subterfuge as these folks are eager to win. Just spit out that rhetoric they want to hear and you’re in good with them. Then slowly work your way to control of the group and you’ve done some real nifty manipulations.

So when you hear shit throwing monkeys like Rush Limbaugh and the ever growing group of right-wing talk show hosts that monkey-see monkey-do him, just remember where it’s coming from.

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The debate is on regarding this legislation on health care reform. The bone of contention is that it’s being rushed through so fast someone might miss something.

At first I was concerned with this speed but then I had to stop and realize something and that is you have people screaming and yelling about how fast implementing health care is but no one is screaming and yelling about how long it’s taken to get here.

Universal coverage has been suggested for the past 100 years in the U.S. and every attempt to get it in as a birthright to the tens of millions of Americans who’ve sacrificed their lives and resources has gone unheeded, stonewalled, and downright criminally interfered with. If as many people who are lambasting President Obama and the speed of which this legislation is moving had bitched and moaned about how long we haven’t had coverage and the untold millions who have died over the past 100 years, we’d not only have coverage but Star Trek like cures and treatments by now.

There are doctors and scientists and even common folk who have been pushing for known cures and treatments but can’t get a foothold because of big pharmaceutical lobbyists and organized criminal fronts who make big money off our being ill. Look at the stem cell issue. There are embryonic stem cells which no one should use because not only of the moral implications but because they’re proven to be dangerous and there are adult stem cells, stem cells that already exist in our bodies that can easily be treated and used now and the mounting success stories are overwhelming. Cheap, clean, highly effective treatments that have allowed the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk. Yet it took years to get funding for it.

The death knell for the sadistic and psychotic medicine mongers is nigh. Sure the legislation is sloppy and sure the taxpayer is going to fit the bill, but that bill will drop if we implement the necessary safeguards of prevention from illnesses and injuries as well as applying the new technologies that are cheaper and more effective. Less sick people means less strain, plain and simple.

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Did you ever stop to think that we’re actually discussing the fact that we need to bailout financial institutions to the tune of over $700 billion?

The mere idea that in this day and age that we as a species could have fucked up this much and have landed ourselves in so much shit that we have to bail out the people and institutions who walk away with tens of millions if not billions of dollars in severance packages for screwing up this bad?

How in the world did we get this deep in it? Very simply, we got greedy, stupid, and it’s now a reality that at least half the population of the United States is out of their damned minds.

That half doesn’t think, they react to hearsay, innuendo, and downright idiotic gossip. We followed a madman and his oil cronies into a war that was probably inevitable to the point our largest financial bonus in U.S. history got eaten up blowing up a country that didn’t have an army.

Why? Because the same family, the Bush family, that has been a plague to the United States since the mid to late 1800’s is still running around fucking things up.

See, it’s Bush’s fault!

Not, but they sure are there smack dab in the middle of it all.

Bottom line is the financial fate of the world is in the balance and although John McCain may mean well, he’s got to prove to us beyond any shadow of a doubt that he’s no flunky of the oil magnates.

Obama on the other hand has to show he won’t turn into some liberal zombie tossing around what little we do have trying to save the world.

Let it be known we’re in the mess we’re in because leadership in this country has been allowed to be measured by how much money you can muster, not how much courage you have.

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Gov. Palin’s daughter’s “Baby Daddy”

This shit is too funny to believe. Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin’s daughter hits the news because she’s underage and pregnant. News hit the wires faster than a Britney Spears sighting.

This election has now entered the “Jerry Springer” stage and I expect during the first debate between Palin and Joe Biden a fist fight will break out on stage and someone will start throwing chairs.

In the story he is semi quoted as referring to himself as a “redneck”. The mere thought of “rednecks” making it as far north as Alaska and breeding is more frightening than the spread of West Nile Virus.

Doesn anyone else think that things have gotten so out of hand that they can’t write situation comedy characters more funny and screwed up than our own lives? It’s said “truth is stranger than fiction” but no mention about it being “funnier than comedy”.

I guess Shakespeare would disagree.

Anyhow, in all fairness just because one of your family members is governor of the largest land mass state in the union doesn’t mean everyone is going to be Brady Bunch perfect. People make mistakes and when we’re thrust into the limelight all our dirty laundry hits the air. This matter will be handled by the Governor and her family and friends and hopefully these two young people will have a healthy baby and live a happy life together.

Maybe Palin and McCain will nominate Jerry Springer for Secretary of the Interior.

I couldn’t resist it. I’m soooo bad!

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