Posts Tagged Health Care
What Romney’s “I enjoy firing people” Gaffe Really Reveals About Him
Posted by Glenden Brown in This Blog on January 13, 2012
Courtesy of Paul Krugman from Digby’s Hullabaloo:
. . . Romney’s sense of privilege, and a relationship to the world around him that is alien to most Americans and reinforces everything that is wrong with the 1% in America.
The key part of what’s off-putting about the gaffe isn’t the first part about liking to fire people, so much as the second part about “who provide services to me.” Liking to fire people is bad enough, but this is the real kicker.
When it comes to basic services like healthcare, almost no one in America sees the relationship that way. Most of us wouldn’t speak of “firing” our health insurance company. No matter how much we might detest our insurance company, we probably wouldn’t describe the experience of removing ourselves from their rolls an enjoyable one.
Mitt Romney isn’t at fault for having been privileged, he’s at fault for having no sense that other people aren’t:
Romney talks about paying for health insurance as if it were the same as getting a pedicure, hiring an escort or getting the fancy wax at a car wash. It’s a luxury service being provided to him, and he doesn’t like it, he can take his business elsewhere. Romney’s is the language of a man who has never wanted for anything, never worried about where his next paycheck would come from, never worried about going bankrupt if he got sick.
It is the language of an entitled empowerment utterly alien to the experience of most Americans, who feel victimized and bled dry without recourse by these rentier corporations. Romney sees himself as in charge of the relationship between himself and these entities. Most Americans don’t. That’s why the statement rankles and feels so off-putting to us. The mention of enjoying the act of “firing” them is just icing on the cake.
The divide between Romney’s experience and the experiences of most Americans is vast. Most of us can’t imagine firing our insurance company because – as sucktacular as they are – we can’t risk being without their half-assed, unreasonably priced sevices.
Mike Lee Full of Non-Answers: Live-blogging the Granato Lee KUED Debate
Posted by Cliff Lyon in 2012 Elections, Elections, Health Care, Mike Lee, Sam Granato, Tea Bag Party, Tribalism & Blind Obedience to Authority, utah, Utah Politics on September 20, 2010
Mike Lee wants to leave health care reform up to the states. Really? How exactly would THAT work? I assume he would leave it to the free market. In other words, he would do nothing.
When Mike Lee was asked about heath care, all simply repeated the States Rights meme. I’m sure Carl Wimmer was cheering. Whats a freaking useless answer.
Would Mike Lee have each state do their own thing? What would that mean if I had an emergency in Tennessee? What if I moved to Arizona to help patrol the border? Would my Utah plan provide reciprocity? Sounds like REALLY BIG government to me. A bunch of REALLY BIG little ones.
Hell, whats the point of a union if you have to think about it every time you cross into another state?
At least Granato answered the question clearly.
Mike Lee is the slimiest kind of politicians and thousands of Utahns will vote for him simply because he repeats the Tea party memes. Mike Lee is NOT for Utah, Mike Lee is for Mike Lee.
John Boehner Is A Pathetic Liar For Posting Edited Video
Posted by Cliff Lyon in Health Care, Liars (politics), National Politics, Republicans on March 21, 2010
Minority Leader John Boehner has posted an 8 second clip of Rep. Alcee Hastings saying “All these rules around here, we make ‘em up as we go along.”
It is flying around the wingnuttisphere.
The reason the clip is only 8 seconds is because in the preceding 10 seconds, Mr. Hastings attributes the comment to Thomas Edison.
Here is what the Boehner’s office is posting.
Here is what Hasting ACTUALLY said.
Somfing rong wit tiz movi pictur box
Posted by bloggernacleburner in This Blog on September 9, 2009
Rite wing nutz participatin in tax protestz? Balderdish
Johnathan is a particular favorite of mine.
Should We Restrict Public Services for Suspected Republicans?
Posted by Cliff Lyon in American People, Health Care, Liars (politics), Lying, Republicans on August 28, 2009
I think so. I herewith submit my name, candidacy and personage for the position on the Health Care Rationing Committee (HCRC). My deep knowledge of and intimate experience with Republicans makes me exceptionally qualified to further the the committee’s mission.
WASHINGTON
— The Republican National Party (RNC) has mailed a fundraising appeal suggesting Democrats might…deny medical treatment to Republicans.
A questionnaire accompanying the appeal says the government could check voting registration records, “prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system.”
It asks, “Does this possibility concern you?”
Katie Wright, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said the question was “inartfully worded.” –> full article
What say we actually start doing things the Republicans are lying about.
The saddest part about all this, is the Republican strategist know their constituency is stupid enough to be cajoled by lies into fear. If they were smart enough to figure that out, I think they would be offended.
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A Primer on Government Role
Posted by Cliff Lyon in Health Care on August 27, 2009
This recent discussion (if you can call it that) about government run health insurance (the liars call it “government run health care”) has involved a process of deep denial on the part of the Party of ‘No.’
I asked Brewski yesterday, which government run services he would like to live without. Nobody seems to want to answer that question. The hypocrisy is unyielding.
Single-Payer Health Care – It’s Working in Australia
Posted by Becky Stauffer in Health Care, This Blog on August 24, 2009
Political acceptance is very high. The conservatives have (totally) made their peace with the system as proposing to remove it is electoral suicide. The support of the populace is almost total.
There is so much misinformation floating around about the satisfaction with health care in U.K., Canada, France, Australia, etc. When I talk to people I know who live in those places or are from there, I hear a much different story than what we hear in our own media.
I don’t know a lot of Australians, just a handful. But those I know say they are definitely happy with both the health care they receive and the cost to them. One of them posted a link to this TPM article that provides a pretty good explanation of how the system works. What I wonder is why are we trying to re-invent the wheel? Read the rest of this entry »
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