Apparently, this video is getting the comic some death threats from violent Tea Baggers. You know the type; the same ones that post comments on Faux News articles about getting their gun and shooting Liberal Fascist Socialist Communist Homosexual Minority Environmentalist Pinko Scum. Yes, I’m talking about America’s own homegrown terrorists, usually Christards.
While many of America’s uneducated masses are screaming and crying against a healthcare reform act that would insure America’s well-being in the future, the insurance companies are lapping up the profits and disregarding the flagrant misuse of money spent on healthcare. The common cry from the ignorant masses, along with the unsupported and maniacal fears of euthanizing elderly and children with special needs, is that it’s impossible for the public option, not to mention a single-payer system which is even better, to be paid for by government without a monstrous increase in taxes.
What isn’t understood is that the cost of healthcare would substantially decrease once a public option was included, and more so with a single-payer healthcare system. Why? Because while we work together to negotiate costs with the healthcare providers, they lose the ability to gouge prices and abuse the system. Working together, through the public option and more so with the single-payer system, will improve Americans’ Constitutional right to “pursue life” which cannot be attained when healthcare isn’t available. Conservatives commonly ignore that small but important detail in the Constitution, preferring instead to rail against any type of gun laws because of an outdated 2nd Amendment.
So, what are all of these costs that would drop expodentially once a public option was in place?
That’s a lot of waste. While some of these would continue perhaps, there are those expenses that would not be involved any longer: overtesting, costing $210 billion/year, is mainly done to increase profits for hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare professionals, or to provide coverage against a malpractice suit; processing claims, costing upto $210 billion/year, is a symptom of corrupt insurance practices which intentionally make it difficult for doctors to process claims with insurance companies because then they can hold out from paying said costs and said costs may be unintentionally disregarded by the doctor, or the more difficult the insurance company makes their claims process, the more claims are going to be lost or filed incorrectly thus saving the insurance company the expense of actually covering their customers; and unnecessary ER visits is another large expense with $14 billion/year spent on illnesses that could have easily been taken care of for a small fraction of the costs with regular doctor visits.
It’s time to wake-up sleepy conservatives… your doe eyed love of all things anti-government is illegitimate and unfounded. While you disregard public healthcare, none of you have yet to disregard your police protection, your fire department, your roads, etc., etc. It was because of liberal politics and social progression that those things were provided when they were.
Here’s something, Denmark’s approval of healthcare is 90%. 90%!!!!! It’s unbelievable, and yet their healthcare professionals are government employees. That’s socialized medicine baby! Lou Dobbs makes only one thing clear, that we need to be looking at socialized medicine. The public option and the single-payer system are only going to partly fix the problem.
OK, funnyordie.com usually has some pretty good stuff so this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.
We’ve all heard the war rhetoric, the secession threatening, and the calls to “take back our nation,” which I always thought was funny because that’s what took place on Jan. 20. For anyone that is actually thinking in that line of thought and supports the Republicans this video is directly aimed at your stupid antics.
Now, if you’re one of those Alex Jones fans that swears that there’s a huge conspiracy by a group of people that are taking over the world, oh my, well, this video doesn’t address you. I guess the whole world is your war ground, not just this country.
The Second Civil War, with General Hannity and General Limbaugh. Two sad bastards that have absolutely no military experience yet swear they are more patriotic then lots of veterans.
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I couldn’t resist.
Going to one of the Tea Bag protests that took place yesterday seemed like a waste of time, but I wanted to see what was really going on. What kind of people were going to these and supporting them? Well, your lovable, huggable blogger, a Godless American, went to the Glendale, CA protest to see what he could find out.
First, business had to be taken care of, so we went to the protest in Glendale, CA to find out what kind of Right Wing Wackos we could find. I was a little disappointed, but then we are in California, just outside of Los Angeles so your average Right Winger here is going to differ drastically from what you may find in the Midwest.
Once, that was over it was time to relax and discuss the day’s events and what we’d do if we had a ton of money. Then it was off to 1881 to chat it up with some local Red Necks. I had a blast, and I don’t think I pissed off a single person there.
I didn’t get the chance to do this at the Tea Bag Protest, but I sure wish I could have. Another lesson for Right Wingers, don’t give the mic over to a Lefty because they’ll just bring up facts and figures that take away from all the hullabaloo Right Wingers seem to favor instead of reality.
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