Comments on: Reorganization

By: a daughter's mother

a daughter's mother — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:36:27 +0000

to Mike H:

You’re going to string up your representative if she doesn’t vote against public option health care? Just how stupid are you? First, you think you’ll have a reception for those ideas on a liberal blog? Second, that’s a threat against a public official, and the folks running this blog know who you really are. I hope they’ll pass along your threat to the FBI. You are not just an idiot, but a dangerous idiot. The real irony is that if you end up where you really belong, which is in prison, you’ll actually have – wait for it – health care!

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:48:26 +0000

Isn’t it just wonderful the way that they manipulated this? If this is what passes, then a better way to get insurance is to buy stock in the health insurance companies and cash in when you need to go to the doctor. Their profits are going to go through the roof while the anti-socialist “insured” go, basically uninsured.

By: Dan J

Dan J — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:32:21 +0000

And just in case you think the insurance companies don't want to see any reform at all, think again. They want to see reform all right, but only if it benefits their bottom line: Healthcare insurers get upper hand: Obama's overhaul fight is being won by the industry, experts say. The end result may be a financial 'bonanza.'.

By: Dan J

Dan J — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:38:06 +0000

I’m going to cross-post what I said over at Greg’s place, just for a bit of completeness, and for the edification of those of you who don’t frequent places where those of us who are “poor” tend to hang around.

I work for an idiot who can’t seem to run a company unless it’s “into the ground”. I have no health insurance. It went by the wayside when the owner decided he couldn’t afford it any more. I don’t think he’s paid the payroll taxes he’s been deducting for quite some time. Retirement benefits? Yeah, right. I’m lucky if I can afford to pay for my utilities and get new glasses this month. The glasses may have to wait a bit longer.

Health insurance simply isn’t an option for me right now. If I had a spare $500 a month lying around it would go to pay some other bills first. I’ve been to see a physician twice in the last ten years. One of those times was work-related, so I had no out of pocket costs.

I’m not the only one in this kind of situation. I have no fucking health care options. I make too much to get state assistance, yet not enough to actually afford health care on my own. What the fuck am I supposed to do? Oh, yeah, go ahead and die earlier so someone else can collect the money I’ve paid in to social security.

Fuck Corporate America.

Yes, Mike H, may your premiums continue to grow as your insurance company grows wealthier and your level of care plummets. I don’t wish it on you, but you seem to be doing a damn good job of wishing it on everyone else. Fuck the insurance companies. Do any of you out there actually think that the insurance companies give a shit about you or the care you receive? They care about their profit margin. End of story.

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:29:00 +0000

Mike H – I hope you never get sick and then later turned down for coverage by an insurance company for pre-existing conditions. I hope that when you are older your family knows what to do in case you are in an end-of-life situation but you never specified what you wanted through an advanced-care-directive (which most Republicans favored Medicare pay for until they saw the light of hysteria and backed away from like it was a rattlesnake.) I hope you never get severe burns that require extended hospitalization but are sent home because your insurance company says that would be too expensive.

I hope that none of that ever happens to you. But if it does, don’t complain to me about it.

May your premiums grow while your coverage shrinks.

By: a daughter's mother

a daughter's mother — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:28:00 +0000

You asked where the anti-abortion constitutional amendment was? The Republicans – the ones in power, anyway – don’t really want one. After all,if they got that, how would they rouse their base? They did a very scary job of getting pretty much everything else they wanted, whether legally or just claiming it was legal BECAUSE they went ahead and did it. They might have called it signing statements, or had a staffer add it to the end of a very long bill after it came out of conference committee when nobody was really looking, or holding a vote open for hours until they browbeat and blackmailed their members into voting the “right” way. Or they just scared everybody into thinking they wanted whatever it was in the name of patriotism and national security. They had all the power they needed and took the rest.

Now that “we’ are in power, we need to exercise it, but legally this time, and loudly, and without letting up. We can’t stop with our own representatives, but have to call the others and help drown out the noise machine. Winning an election should have consequences. Failing to act according to the wishes of the vast majority should have even deeper and broader consequences. WE have to keep reminding Washington of that.

Health care delayed is health care denied. How many of us need to go bankrupt after a single health event before Congress acts? How many of us need to DIE before Congress acts? Ask them. Then call and ask them again. Then call the White House and remind our President that standing behind Republicans, bending over and kissing their rosy behinds is NOT A LEADERSHIP POSITION!

By: Mike H

Mike H — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:24:58 +0000

My friends and I have taken days off to protest down by our local rep’s office. She is a newly elected democrat and if she votes for Obama care, we are going to string her up next elections.

Thankfully, she has come out and said she wouldn’t vote for anything with a public option. With that opening we are going to push her against the rest of Obamacare and Cap and Trade.

By: Blaine

Blaine — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:45:19 +0000

I’m right there with ya, D.C. I love the southwest, but the siren call of the northeast is becoming harder to block out. I have written everyone I can and talked to all of the people around me. Doesn’t seem to help much, but I am trying.

By: D. C. Sessions

D. C. Sessions — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:03:41 +0000

Meanwhile, I live in Arizona. “My” representatives are John McCain, John Kyl, and John Shadegg. No jokes about prostitution, please.

I’m voting with my feet and moving to New Mexico, where the Congressional staff have been gracious enough to welcome a potential political refugee.

By: Dan J

Dan J — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:18:08 +0000

I wrote and told my Representative in no uncertain terms that he is beholden to me, not to the health care industry. I also made it very clear that without health care reform, more people will lose health care that they already have, and more people will needlessly die. People like me will hold him and the rest of the Congress-critters personally responsible for those deaths. i made sure he knew that people like me will let the rest of the world know, via blogs and news sites, exactly what our representatives in Washington are doing to help or hurt health care reform. I get so f'ing sick and tired of all of our rep's in Washington. Every time I vote it's for the lesser of a group of evils. Every… single… time. I don't actually trust a single one of them. Isn't that pathetic?