There is no way you can stop Fox from making a mockery of truth and honest journalism but you sure as heck can mock them. Here’s how a bunch of dummies do it.
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The irony is that the dialogue writes itself. As outrageous as it all is, the clowns actually say this stuff…which is fairly easy for them to do since dealing with scruples is never a concern.
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Republicans hoping to campaign on repealing the health care bill might have to rethink their strategy.
Polls showed that a majority of Americans always supported various elements of the health care bill, if not the bill itself. But a new poll by The Associated Press and the GfK marketing group shows that support for the plan as a whole has risen to its highest level since the survey started last fall. Some 45 percent of respondents favor now the law, while 42 percent oppose it. Only a month ago, opponents were ahead of supporters, 46 percent to 39. People are apparently beginning to understand that the law is an expansion of access to affordable private insurance, not a government takeover or a socialist plot.
As the reforms take effect and that realization spreads, New Hampshire’s Republican senatorial candidates may have to find a different ideological hobby horse to ride into the fall elections. Promising to take away people’s access to health care might not prove as popular as they thought.
Calling for repeal will certainly please teabaggers and the rest of the base but who still believe that the health care bill was a socialist takeover by government. It’ll be another matter trying to convince independents that scrapping the bill and handing full control back to the h/c industry is a good plan of action. Few people but hardcore righties wish to return to square one.
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Granted, this is an extreme example but it does highlight the fact that the greatest health care system in the world might not in fact be the greatest health care system in the world.
An unemployed Michigan woman who was unable to afford medical treatment for a searing pain in her shoulder took matters into her own hands last week, shooting herself in the shoulder in a last-ditch effort to get into the ER.
Kathy Myers, 41, said she was pushed to the brink of desperation Thursday night because she was “crazy in pain,” and the local hospital emergency room would give her no more than a handful of anti-inflammatory pills.
“Pain will make you do silly, crazy things,” the 41-year-old Niles, Mich., woman said in a YouTube.com interview with News 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “I knew they wasn’t going to do anything, again. They said if it wasn’t life-threatening, no health insurance, you can’t get no help.”
In the video, she reenacts how she covered her right shoulder and head with two pillows before pointing her .25-caliber handgun at her own body.
“I took the gun and went ‘Boom!’” she said.
Needless to say, an unemployed woman in Canada, France or Great Britain suffering from severe shoulder pain would never have to consider taking a gun to herself in a desperate attempt at receiving medical treatment. Nor would people in those countries ever have the humiliating experience of receiving medical treatment while lying on a cot in a stall intended for livestock.
If you can afford it, I have no doubt the U.S. health care system is the greatest health care system in the world. For everyone else…well, Boom!
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It appears that Dems are prepared to take the initiative on Republican’s claims that they’ll campaign to repeal the health care bill. The first salvo:
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There’s nothing like taking the first swing when provoked. That said, I don’t believe Republicans would dare run on repealing health care reform despite their shouting to do so. How does one make the argument that going back to having insurance companies in control of health care is a good thing?
But then again, we’re talking about Republicans, a political party devoid of any real policy ideas so anything is possible.
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