I recently wrote a diary expressing my complete dissatisfaction with the current healthcare bill. I was shocked by some of the comments, and a kos policy i did not understand.
I am a lifelong union democrat. I am pro-choice. I believe the death penalty should be abolished. I do not understand why so many ohioans care what gay people do. You want to get married? Welcome to the party.
Yet when i point out the emperor has no clothes, i am called a troll.
A republican plant. Threatened with banishment. One person told me to go fuck myself with a chainsaw. (a mr rabidnation).Many people simply critiqued my use of syntax,capitals,or puncuation. The banishment issue surprised me. I was shocked and saddened to see that dissenting or differing opinions were not wanted or welcome. And that you can be banned by offering "republican opinions". So this is what democrats really stand for? Think like we think or be banished.Or fuck yourself with a chainsaw.
If you are going to blindly defend whatever pelosi and the democrats do,then you are the same as rush limbaugh. And you will be taken for granted. And you remove accountability. And you prove fox news right.And you become puppets to be used. Do you really only want to talk to people who agree with everything you say?
So in the end your no different than glenn beck,sean hannity or rush.
Intolerant,spiteful.willfully ignorant.
Here are some simple hard truths. We have been used. This bill is worse than nothing. Because it solves nothing. Yet if it passes, many will claim victory, and the conversation will be over. Yet nothing will have been done. Again. Pelosi will raise her hands in victory,and they will bang their little gavel. And life for the middle class will go on as before. Costs will rise. Coverages will decrease from 80/20 to 70/30. Deductables and co-pays will go up.
Taxing the rich to expand medicare hurts the goal of real reform. As these people get free healthcare they will become more resistant to change in the future.This is a big part of the problem now. People on medicare and medicaid go to teabag events and put on a show.And these people vote!One third of the population is on medicare or medicaid. There are over 47 million people on medicaid right now. How is doubling that number going help? Its not possible to give us all "free" healthcare. These people must be made to help us all pay. Through taxation. Then put us all in the same pool.
More free healthcare helps no one.
The public option is not public nor is it an option. Just calling it an option doesnt make it one.
The mandates are equally useless and a joke. Making insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions with out real mandates will only drive up costs. Which will be passed on to the middle class. again. So in the end the democrats have done exactly what the republicans have said they will do. They taxed the rich,they passed it out to the poor (what we call poor in america) and they screwed everyone in between.
So if you wanna ban me,ban me. Shall i fuck myself with a chainsaw now? Oh nevermind, the democrats just did it for me.