Chuck Norris Drop Kicks Obama Health Insurance Reform
Well I read Chuck Norris’s take on what he’d say to Congress and the American Public Schools if he were making the speaches that Obama will be making this week. (see WorldNet Daily) http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109051
He sums up the conservative philosophy on the issue of health care reform very nicely in this following excerpt:
“I would then proceed to tell them something that the president never would: that the majority of Americans (including all of them) can improve their health-care coverage, quality of life and longevity by simply taking better care of their own health. I’d tell them that the answer is not in big government solutions and that it’s time for government to quit enabling the majority of Americans and equip them to fight for themselves and one another.’
I’d tell them the truth is the No. 1 enemy of our health is not government, insurance companies or health-care practitioners, but ourselves. “
This form of condescending preaching is offense, degrading, and provoking to people who are employees and therefore at the mercy of static wages, and the dwindling contributions toward health insurance made by their employers. It sounds like Chuck is telling us the preferred way to deal with the health insurance crisis is for those of us who missed out on an acting career should avoid getting sick. No doubt we can do this by using that portable exercise device he carries around with him. Chuck, there is no money left for that kind of luxury because health insurance premiums have sucked dry our disposable income.
This doctrine of the far right is nonsensical and a well held tenet of pre-World World One America. A lot has changed since then and this old west theology is so ancient that it should need a Rosetta Stone to resuscitate.
First thing is that the issue isn’t the physical condition of the American people or the quality of health care in this country: it is excessive profiteering by big pharma and health insurance companies. How do I know this? I know this because my monthly insurance premium is $1,400 and this isn’t for medical costs I’ve incurred, it’s in case I end up needing medical care. I could go for years not needing a doctor while paying this insane amount for protection. It sounds like I have the Don Corleone medical plan, but actually this was the best deal on the market when I signed up. I can also see with my own eyes a half empty shopping center on one side of the street, while a super CVS or other pharmacy chain is being constructed on the other side.
Conservatives like to talk about the cost of health care when the real atrocity is the cost of insurance and prescription drugs. Get on topic Chuck and stop trying to change the subject. The problem with blaming people for their own health maladies is that a lot of pain and suffering is caused by someone else. If a piano falls on your head while you’re walking down the street, no amount of morning pushups could have prevented that. If some passerby sneezes the swine flu into your face, you can’t blame it on too many dollar menu meals at McDonalds.
Moreover, government is not enabling us mooching whining unsuckled crybabies; we are as self sufficient as our paychecks allow us to be. There is only so much money Daddy Warbucks is willing to share with us, and he’s been awful tight since George the II took office (that was the day business was given the go-ahead to extract their revenge on us profit sucking maggots). It’s not like we can go out a shoot down an extra buffalo or jack rabbit. You see Chuck; back here on the upper east coast the animal population was exterminated some 400 years ago. Not only did the Pilgrims kill all the animals, they killed all the Indians along with them. (Trigger happy bastards wouldn’t you say).
You seem to be suggesting that instead of looking to Uncle Sam to stop this predatory attack on his citizens by non-citizen paper entities, that we help each other. I gotta tell ya Chuck, I’m not well liked in this neighborhood. Asking for a handout here would be like asking you for a handout. Not only that, this place is teeming with conservatives. Like you, they believe that god helps them that help themselves.
Americans are on the same page as you are Chuck. They believe in hard work and being self sufficient, but the current circumstances make that impossible. We don’t need government to get off our backs; we need the health insurance industry to get out of our wallets. The only way we can defend ourselves is to pressure Washington to intervene.
We are not looking for help to buy a plasma TV, it just that of the cost nitroglycerine pills these days is enough to give a person a heart attack.
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Health reform will hurt our system.