As we know, Conservatives have been on the wrong side of everything since forever, since before the Haldron Collider. It is hilarious to watch them all puffed up like, well, puffer fish in their latest near-blockage of health care. The big concern? IT’LL COST TOO MUCH!
Well, it already costs too much. Health is a dying industry. Everyone dies and along the way, you try to prevent it but you can’t. This gets real expensive. But we do eventually give up and die. Imagine trying to hold a large beach ball under water. That takes energy. And if you are trying to hold down millions of these beach balls, it would get very expensive. It’s a losing business. Losing businesses bleed money. That’s just how it is.
Given that healthcare is ultimately a cash-loss game for the bodies—but actually, one notes, very helpful for productivity while the bodies still work—this healthcare thing is something we have to do. We have no choice. It simply must be done. It’s not even a moral thing. It’s fucking practical.
So, back to the Conservatives. What will they say in a hundred years after this is all over? “Wasn’t it great back when health care cost private citizens billions of dollars and bankrupted all kinds of folks and then there were the people who died because they couldn’t get access to health care from anyone? I LOVED THAT! And then, there were all those middle men who made wild decisions, based on their profit motive, to get as wealthy as possible off the carcasses of dead people? THAT WAS THE WAY! IF ONLY WE COULD HAVE THOSE DAYS AGAIN!”
I always think of Progressives as those who are simply going back to the future. It’s like, there is this great state we can all live in (Some call it Sweden)—and it is taking us all this effort to fight against those who would have us not return to the natural, better state.
Sad little people.
“IT’S TOO EXPENSIVE!”
Yeah, it is. Just means a few less luxury items for the CEO of Blue Cross.
“HOW DARE YOU TRY TO TAKE AWAY ANOTHER PATH TO BUSINESS WEALTH!”
Oh honey, just shut up and go find another path.
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3 comments:
I'm not a Conservative.. I'm not a Republican.. and recently I have abandoned my status as a Liberal Democrat. Each side is too extreme and too unwilling to step outside their own self (because they each think they must, yes, of course, represent the only REAL good for the people). I like to think I'm a moderate (with a liberal lean).. because I agree with various things from each side if you will and I like to represent American common sense. "It's too expensive" is yes, a faulty excuse and the US, yes, spends the most already on health care only to have some pretty crappy results. For example, for spending the most on health care we should have one of the lowest infant mortality rates.. but we don't. My point is that people tend to miss the most important things that really NEED to be argued. There is NO way I would ever agree to government run anything. ESPECIALLY health care. Why? Well, like the American I am, I've read the Constitution and I know that the role of our government is to be limited. It's most important job is simply to represent the people; not run everything for the people (control how much they oay, etc). And it's already gotten out of hand with the programs it currently runs. Welfare. If that isn't a mess, then I don't know what is. If we start letting the government run more and more programs (especially one as big as health care) then we are giving up some of our own basic governing freedoms (ex. my right to choose whether or not I want insurance and which doctor I want to go to and what insurance plan I want and what tests I need, etc). We will be trampling upon our basic founding principles if we allow the government to run our health care! James Madison said: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined." (Federalist Papers #45) The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people (Amendment X). The federal government has no Constitutional provision to regulate or restrict the freedom of the people to have access to medical care, supplies or treatments.
I am not denying that our current health system needs reform. It clearly does. Majorly. But let's not try to solve one big problem with another one. People ask why we are so unwilling to adhere to "socialist" methods of government run when all the other industrialized countries are doing it. Hello. We are America. Not France or Sweden. Yes, we like to decide how much we want to spend on things that directly affect us. Let's find our own American way of fixing things.
I and many others don't want a "quick fix" that will inevitably cause more trouble and financial losses. There is no quick fix anyway.
Chelsea, it sounds to me like
1) You are older than 17.
2) You are definitely conservative.
3) You may not be who you say you are.
4) And if none of the above are true, than I just have never met anyone like you and I wish you well.
LASTLY--The United States set up the Constitions of Japan and Germany--and they are much more liberal Consitutions than ours. Things evolve. We don't take the Bible literally, nor should we. Orginalists (like that scary Scalia) are simply afraid of modernity.
Chelsea,
Or whoever you are. You are just so wrong. And you are a conservative. Which amounts to the same thing. But good luck with your health insurance choices. When you have a family, it will cost you $1000 per month more or less to insure them all.
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