Since school let out for the semester I’ve had way too much time on my hands to worry about this damned health insurance reform “debate”. You know, the one where supposed Progressives are tearing other supposed Progressives to shreds? Yeah, that one.
Now, I’ve learned that because I’m for the bill, I :
have never been poor.
They can’t have been.
Either that or they’ve simply forgotten that money only stretches so far.
They make six-figure salaries doing god-knows-what, and they can’t even begin to relate to those of us who are in that $20K to $40K range. They just can’t.
They are like the Congressional Democrats. THEY aren’t hurting, so why in the world should YOU be?
Well, isn’t that spayshul. I’m for this bill because I’m living high off the hog in my castle, my life right as rain. Everything is honky flippin’ dory in my little world.
Except wouldn’t that go the other way? If I were so well-off and able to make these kinds of decisions with a flip of my ever-flowing (and impeccable) hair, then wouldn’t I stand on principle and demand to kill this fucking thing because it’s not exactly, to the smallest detail, what I’ve been told I want?
Kind of like the person who made the above comment. I mean, obviously, Brooke in wherethefuckever, is so well off that she (or he) can throw it all to the wind and ride this fucking train wreck to the end. This person can obviously stand firm in her belief that “It’s either perfect or KILL IT!” Apparently, the above commenter, so sad that her idol and the most bomb-diggity (paid) activist1 on all of the GOS2 and Twitter, isn’t worshipped by all, can’t fathom that the good parts of this motherfucking bill are worth fighting for– even by people who are making less than $250k a year (Good fucking grief, I wish!)– because some of us need this shit.
I’ve also run across an analysis that says, surprise!, that the penalty for refusing to pay for the mandated insurance is without teeth. There is no penalty. And this was provided by someone who, surprise!, is reading the bill. Not some goddamned twit who’s getting her talking points from a paid lackey of a woman who just wants to see her fucking face on the teevee.
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I don’t have a clue what to think about this bill. On the one hand I can’t fathom how it’s going help the Frogette and I, who just spent the last 6 months ‘soaring without a net’ for the first time in our lives. On the other hand, anything would be better than the money-sapping situation we’re in now.
I do know this: If the US doesn’t fix the health care situation soon, I can…and I will…take my skills, my education, my company (and with it, tax payments), and I WILL LEAVE!. The US is not the whole f*cking world, and I can certainly find another kleptocracy that will, at least, take care of me in my declining years.
There are some real positives here, I think. I know that some of it sucks, but I’m of the mind that we get a little bit of time in this country. God knows if the Repubs have their way we’d be at the complete and total mercy of unregulated insurance companies. I really hope this bill does some good. If not, well, I’d like to leave. Sadly, I’m stuck– just like millions of other people. And I’ll probably have to go on disability if this goes down.
P.S.
Sorry I didn’t reply sooner. Been having some real issues lately and, well, I suck right now.