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Here Is The Future Without Health Reform

The debate rages…there are setbacks and some forward movement….but if the special interests have their way and no health reform is coming, what can we look forward to in the near future?

We have heard all the arguments pro and con of the health care debate, but there are a few things that will be certain without reform……costs will keep going up, people will DIE and the uninsured will be a drag on the economy.

Rep. Boner, my bad Boehner, has been a staunch critic of reform but this is what happens even in HIS district:

A 22-year-old woman from Oxford, Ohio, died from swine flu on Wednesday. Kimberly Young graduated from Miami University in December and continued to live in Oxford, Ohio, within Minority Leader John Boehner’s congressional distrct. Reports now indicate that after initially getting sick, Young put off treatment because she was uninsured:  (thanx to thinkprogress.com)

There are always horror stories when the health care debate is raging here is another one:

One of the worst abuses of private insurance companies is the practice of using spurious reasons to deny claims. In April, Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez awoke and found her shirt soaked in blood. Realizing that her “her left breast [was] bleeding from the nipple,” she rushed to the emergency room.

Today, CBS-5 reports that this San Francisco Department of Public Health employee has had her claim denied because her insurance company, Blue Shield of California, didn’t consider her situation to be an “emergency.” Even though her doctor told her it was likely a tumor, Blue Shield said that Miran-Ramirez should have known it wasn’t:

But Miran-Ramirez said the real shock came when her insurance company, Blue Shield of California HMO, which had initially approved the claim for the emergency room visit, reversed course and sent her a new bill three months later requiring her to pay the total charges for that visit: $2,791.00.

Once again thanx to thinkprogress.com for the content.

And within the debate are those people that are using the Constitution as an argument to proposed health reform, the tenthers as they are called because they say the 10th amendment says that it should not reform health care.  The worst indication of just how far these dipsticks will go, Sen. Ensign is saying:

A popular right-wing objection to federal health care legislation is that it’s unconstitutional. These “tenthers” argue that since the U.S. Constitution never explicitly gives the federal government the right to regulate health care, the 10th amendment leaves that power to the states. Texas tenthers have held pro-secession rallies, and officials in various states have raised the possibility of legislation to exempt their residents from federal health care.

ENSIGN: We’ve allowed exceptions for religious and various other reasons. But some people hold the Constitution pretty high in their lives, and if they believe that this thing is unconstitutional, and they then say, “I choose not to have health insurance, I’m not going to buy it,” we could be subjecting those very people who conscientiously — because they believe in the U.S. Constitution — we could be subjecting them to fines or the interpretation of a judge, potentially, all the way up to imprisonment. That seems to me to be a problem.

These types just amaze me….they quote and hold-up the Constitution to make their point but yet want to violate the same document to further their agenda…like inserting themselves into people’s private lives….WHAT A PILE OF CRAP!

Everyone needs to decide what it will be in conjunction with the Constitution…either we go by strict adherence to it or it is up for interpretation.  But to fluctuate between the two is just plain IGNORANT!  And I mean that in EVERY sense of the word.


More From The Radical Right

We have heard all their, the radical right, BS…….Pres is a Kenyan, Death Panels, Obama is a socialist, Obama is a nazi, yada yada….and most thinking Americans have written them off as right wingnuts and someone who should be ignored.

But people, not all the BS comes from the right wingnuts…there are some respected, and I use the word very loosely, on the Right that are ass deep in the BS being spread.  No I am not talking about dipsticks like Rush or Coulter or Beck; I am sure there is someone somewhere that respects these BS factories, but rather I am talking about Senators and House members.

Just yesterday, Iowa’s Senator Grassley said to a group of 300:

“You have every right to fear. You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life, you should have done that 20 years before. Should not have a government run plan to decide when to pull the plug on grandma.”

He, Grassley, knows very well that there is no such provision in the bill as it is now.  Let me remind him that his colleague in the Senate, Isakson a fellow Repub from the state of Georgia who co-sponsored 2007’s Medicare end-of-life Planning Act.  Is Grassley accusing his fellow GOP member of wanting to “pull the plug on Grandma”?  BTW, Isakson said in a recent interview:

How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts. You’re putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don’t know how that got so mixed up. […]

It empowers you to be able to make decisions at a difficult time rather than having the government making them for you.

Grassley is not alone in the crazy world of Repub BS.  It seems that Repub. Congressman from Georgia said recently to a group of his people:

He also spoke of a “socialistic elite” – Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – who might use a pandemic disease or natural disaster as an excuse to declare martial law.

“They’re trying to develop an environment where they can take over,” he said. “We’ve seen that historically.”

You see the radical right is not the problem.  They are a fringe group that will be marginalized, but when the members of the Senate and the House start repeating the BS then the GOP has a major problem.

Cash 4 Clunkers!

I swear I look for stuff on the GOP, Repubs and conservatives that is positive….I really want to write about something positive coming from the party….but for the life of me I cannot seem to find much that is positive.  It is like the GOP cannot help itself…it just has to be a party of idiots or at least their leadership is idiots.

If you are a reader that has been keeping track of the economy you will remember back a month or so ago when the auto industry was talking about closing some of the dealerships.  At that time the Repubs were all over the decision saying that it would be an attack on America’s small business  and that the Dems were condemning small businesses by signing on to the decision.

Obama and his auto task force gave the order to close these dealerships, the actual revenue generators for the auto companies.  And then the rhetoric turned into accusation.

As was noted by Senators in the hearing and by House members in special orders floor speeches yesterday, the overwhelming majority of the dealership closures are in rural areas and are owned by Republican donors or politicians. A great deal of them are very profitable.

Now we have another twist in the rhetoric…..it seems that Repub. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina has come up with a new approach…I am pretty sure that he will not be the only one spouting the lunacy.

It appears that now ther Cash for clunkers program is an assault on other small businesses, that are not getting the support from Washington.  Also the Repub has used the program to illustrate the ineffectiveness of a government program.

“I just think this is a great example of the stupidity that’s coming out of Washington right now,” DeMint said today on “Fox News Sunday.”

“Our children and grandchildren can’t afford to make these car dealers well right now,” said DeMint, a South Carolina Republican.

But the most absurd quote from Sen DeMint is:

“The federal government went broke in one week in the used car business,” he said, “and now they want to run our health-care system.”

The program he is mentioning is a program that is creating something sadly missing in today’s economy…..DEMAND.  But then he is saying that since the program has been successful that it is the reason why we should not let the government run health care…..is that not the most absurd thing you have ever heard?  Yep, but the Repubs have not let rationality get in the way of there opposition.

2009 Anal-Ocity

I know that there are those that still do not believe that we are harming the environment, that it is just some cycle that we are going through. But for a person that supposedly has our best interests at heart,, I find it disheartening that they would even say something like this.

This piece of anal mumblings came from the mouth of Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe:

If their argument there is “Well, we don’t want to use oil and gas because we think it pollutes” — which it doesn’t — but if that’s their argument, then why are we willing to import it from Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East?

HA HA HA…I am sorry but that is a ridiculous statement and coming from a well respected lawmaker.

Thanx to Think Progress for pointing this absurdity out.