That Republican conspiracy against healthcare
Obama told a talk show host this morning that he sees a Republican conspiracy against him and not necessarily against his health care plan (Washington Times link);
“I think early on, a decision was made by the Republican leadership that said, ‘Look, let’s not give him a victory, maybe we can have a replay of 1993, ’94, when Clinton came in, he failed on health care and then we won in the mid-term elections and we got the majority. And I think there are some folks who are taking a page out that playbook,” the president said.
So our opposition to his health care plan is because we don’t like him – everything is about him these days. Except that’s not necessarily true in my case – and I suspect, it’s not true in your case either.
Next month, I turn 54 years old, and I began planning for my retirement health care when I was 19 when I joined the Army. I kind of liked the idea that when I broke my hand in basic training, the Army provided me with medical attention. It wasn’t the best, but it worked. OK, so I have one crooked finger, now. I could still shoot straight.
A few years later, I got married and my son was born a year later. Health care for him was almost free. It was one of the things I considered when I reenlisted. I accepted my low pay because the Army took care of my family health-wise. So that became part of my old-age planning.
Now, as I near my final retirement, this Obama fellow tells me, after paying for my own health care with my youth, I owe for someone else’s health care. Someone who wouldn’t join the military, someone who is just sitting on their ass waiting for Obama to hand them some free health care – at my expense.
Am I worried Obama will succeed at changing my health care system? Not particularly – I have the VSOs sticking up for me which is I why I joined a few. What I’m most worried about is that while my income is reduced after I retire, I’m going to be saddled with paying for some derelict’s family health care.
Am I being selfish? Not as selfish as that lazy SOB who won’t insure his own family. And I don’t want to hear that he’s too poor to afford insurance for his family – if he’s poor, why is he dragging kids into his poverty?
Not everyone in America has military health care – yet 86% of people living in this country are covered by their own health insurance. We were all responsible and took care of our respective families, how does that make us responsible for some other schlub’s poor choices?
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Health Care debate, Veteran Health Care
Well it couldn’t be because we didn’t want universal health care then and don’t want it now…..could it? The other eery similarity is that the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is back again, coincidence? I think not.
…going to get my VRWC secret decoder ring out of storage now…..awaiting further orders….
A few months ago I was in the ladies room at my office building where I heard two women talking. One was telling the other that, that day was going to be her last because having a job cut too much into her welfare and she could make more money if she quit her job.
These people don’t care about what you’ve put in to earn what you have, they only care about what they feel like they are entitled to. The government has fostered this mentality for too long.
Caroline,
There’s a lady who used to live next door to me with a similar attitude. She has 4 kids, by three different guys. She planned them out at 2 years apart so as to not have to go to work. She can remain on welfare with children under 2YO.
I will never understand that mindset. Never.
I can’t figure out if Obama is genuinely that paranoid, or seeking additional victim status.
It’s always the fault of someone else with things go awry, after all.
Caroline, it’s all too common. I’ve heard it referred to around here as a ‘paycheck’?
Must be some sorta esoteric code word… Myself, when the VA check hits the bank I observe that The Eagle shat again.
Aside: Is ‘shat’ really a word? Merriam-Webster says it is, but it seems wrong somehow.
It pissed me off at the time but I can’t say I was super sad to see her go, there should seriously be a rule against talking on your cell phone and “grunting” while in the bathroom. That’s just wrong!
Jonn;
How dare you! There are people who just cannot afford health insurance. Have you considered how much it takes to raise 2 kids on welfare, plus add on another 2 stepkids. They need Playstation, the wife,(well, actually she is a live in girlfriend), needs her silicone airbags, and I have to be able to buy my Oxycontins. Just taking care of these necessities can cut deep into my welfare check, preventing me from getting those other things like good food, wasting gas to go job hunting, and such.
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“I’m going to be saddled with paying for some derelict’s family health care”. That’s the money quote, Jonn. In the 0’s mind, it matters not that we worked for our health care, it only matters that his voters deserve what we worked for. Be it cars, or health care, it just ain’t right that the “haves” have it and the ones who won’t work for it, don’t have it.
actually, people on welfare are automatically eligible for and very often automatically enrolled into medicaid, so they already have free healthcare and do not have to worry about getting themselves and their families insured… certain ‘working poor’ are eligible for medicaid, too.
Students can get insured through their colleges and it is sort of ‘catastrophic’ coverage – what they really need, being young and healthy.
Grad students can get insured through their schools, too, and it is also cheaper than a regular individual coverage. So, who are these ‘uninsured??’
Caroline, I could tell you stories….
UpNorth, don’t get me started on cars. Those of us who’ve always had cars that aren’t clunkers, as the government defines them, get nothing. I bought a new US car a few weeks ago which gets worse mileage than my previous car (from 37 mpg to 35), while the Obama Administration is subsidizing the purchase of Jap shitboxes.
Olga, the people who don’t want to pay for their health insurance. Remember last year when they wanted SCHIP to cover families making more than $60?
There’s no conspiracy, Obama is just incompetent. That and the Democrats overestimated their mandate.
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looks like everyone is going to pay, except those we already pay for. it looks like there will be a wider spectrum of options with a legal mandate to insure everyone. If i were an insurance company, i would be cool with this. We the people get better protection against denial for costly and catastrophic illness, multi-tiered choice and some good old piece of mind. My friends, we are a long long way from socialism.
Bullshit.
The one hope that we as a nation have is that this entire “universal health care” crap sandwich gets tossed by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.
Seriously: there is NO warping of the Constitution whereby anyone with more than a middle school education can conceive of the Congress having the authority to enact such legislation.
Again, for those who can’t seem to grasp the concept: Health care, like health insurance, is a commodity, no different from a car, a sandwich, a pair of shies or a plasma TV. there is NO right to health care. You get what you can pay for, and that’s that.
“We the People” need to take our country back. Those people up in washington have completly forgotten or have ignored who the “H” they are working for. If we do not want what they are trying to make us eat then its time for us to spit it out along with them. Come the next election they will join the ranks of those they put out of business or work. We need to enact a law stating that they can not and will not vote themselves anymore raises unless we (the Bosses) say they can. Their actions to date show total contempt towards the People of the United Sates. This must change and NOW!