Showing posts with label health care bill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health care bill. Show all posts
Jan 14, 2010
Dec 21, 2009
Other Than That, It's Great
WSJ takes on the health care bill and the process by which it is being passed:
My favorite quote, from the President- the most thoughtful, articulate President (since George W. Bush):
A century long struggle to reform health care? Was there a copay for leeches in 1909? Aspirin wasn't even available without a prescription until 1915.
The first modern group health insurance plan did not form until 1929.
Why not say, "After six millenia, since the dawn of recorded history, we are on the cusp (precipice) of health care reform in the United States of America (on a strict party line vote that nationalizes 1/6th of the economy)?"
Never in our memory has so unpopular a bill been on the verge of passing Congress, never has social and economic legislation of this magnitude been forced through on a purely partisan vote, and never has a party exhibited more sheer political willfulness that is reckless even for Washington or had more warning about the consequences of its actions.
My favorite quote, from the President- the most thoughtful, articulate President (since George W. Bush):
"After a nearly century-long struggle we are on the cusp of making health-care reform a reality in the United States of America," Mr. Obama said on Saturday
A century long struggle to reform health care? Was there a copay for leeches in 1909? Aspirin wasn't even available without a prescription until 1915.
The first modern group health insurance plan did not form until 1929.
Why not say, "After six millenia, since the dawn of recorded history, we are on the cusp (precipice) of health care reform in the United States of America (on a strict party line vote that nationalizes 1/6th of the economy)?"
Aug 11, 2009
Civility My Ass
"Get in their faces." "Punch back twice as hard."
- President Obama, the Great Divider
This monstrosity of a health care bill isn't deserving of civility. I am in favor of a scorched earth policy. (And I would not be if most of Americans actually favored a single payer system. I would accept it with sadness and resignation. But it's not even being honestly debated about what the bill actually is.) Those on the right are always held to a higher standard of conduct and what does it get us? Bupkis. The Left is so accustomed to those on the Right standing by in docile fashion while they scream and rage and effect their policies. They don't know what to do when their own disruptive tactics are used against them.
The townhalls were propaganda/photo ops that were not designed for give and take. They gave the best seating to supporters, tried to shut out opposition, then called in the goons when sentiment started shifting. And let us not forget that this intended overhaul of 1/6 of our economy (and our entire society; see Steyn's article below) was not intended to be debated. It was supposed to have been passed in a legislative blitzkrieg couched in terms of dealing with the perpetual economic crisis. That sort of contempt for the citizenry, who will be stuck with this nonsense while the elites have their pick of what is left of the top tier health care system, is reprehensible. That the town halls and opposition to the health care bills are being publicized at all by the media are a direct result of the open hostility. And all of the actual violence that I have seen has been by Obama supporters.
This isn't just a health care bill- it's an attempt to redefine our society.
But if they think the hostility will die down once a bill is passed. Think again.
Rant over.
Update: What this guy says.
- President Obama, the Great Divider
This monstrosity of a health care bill isn't deserving of civility. I am in favor of a scorched earth policy. (And I would not be if most of Americans actually favored a single payer system. I would accept it with sadness and resignation. But it's not even being honestly debated about what the bill actually is.) Those on the right are always held to a higher standard of conduct and what does it get us? Bupkis. The Left is so accustomed to those on the Right standing by in docile fashion while they scream and rage and effect their policies. They don't know what to do when their own disruptive tactics are used against them.
The townhalls were propaganda/photo ops that were not designed for give and take. They gave the best seating to supporters, tried to shut out opposition, then called in the goons when sentiment started shifting. And let us not forget that this intended overhaul of 1/6 of our economy (and our entire society; see Steyn's article below) was not intended to be debated. It was supposed to have been passed in a legislative blitzkrieg couched in terms of dealing with the perpetual economic crisis. That sort of contempt for the citizenry, who will be stuck with this nonsense while the elites have their pick of what is left of the top tier health care system, is reprehensible. That the town halls and opposition to the health care bills are being publicized at all by the media are a direct result of the open hostility. And all of the actual violence that I have seen has been by Obama supporters.
This isn't just a health care bill- it's an attempt to redefine our society.
But if they think the hostility will die down once a bill is passed. Think again.
Rant over.
Update: What this guy says.
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