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We want to like Joe Scarborough. But we have trouble cozying up to MSNBC’s morning host because, let’s face it, he strays off the reservation too often. We’re not even sure he knows which reservation he’s supposed to be on.
Then he does an interview like this, where he somehow gets liberal Democrat congressman Anthony “The Guy With the Most Appropriate Last Name In Congress” Weiner to admit that “reform” is just a fancy word that means “eliminating private health insurance.”
Scarborough: It sounds like you’re saying you think there is no need for us to have private insurance in health care.
Weiner: I’ve asked you three times. What is their value? What are they bringing to the deal?
Scarborough: Again…I’m astounded by your question. It sounds like you’re suggesting that there’s no need to have a country that’s run on free market principles.
Weiner: Time out. Let’s focus on one thing at a time. This isn’t a commodity, Joe. Health care isn’t a commodity.
Scarborough: You’re saying that health care is different than everything else.
Weiner: Health care is not a commodity.
Scarborough: But you are making the conservatives’ point. You are making the point of the people at the town hall meetings who say this is Barack Obama’s opportunity to get rid of private health care and turn it completely over to the government. I’m sitting here stunned saying, “Oh, my God.” You’re making the point of the health care protesters.
Weiner: If Barack Obama doesn’t want to do it, I want to do it.
Think about the old saying that even a blind sow finds an truffle now and then. Substitute “Scarborough” for “blind sow.” Then substitute “truth” for “truffle.”
Source: BluegrassPundit.com
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Why does Rep. Weimer continue to promote Medicare as “Government’s Shining Star”? UnAmericans are focused on Government’s inability to manage & oversee any entitlement program. “Medicare Fraud” alone is $39,000,000,000 that’s billion, Oh please, Mr. Whiner, confidence is not even there for your “LemonAid Cash4Clunkers”. My advice: Go for the Cash4Jets, at least we can understand your focus w/o all your camouflaged smooth talk.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ ?
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What does government bring to the table?
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This is hilarious. He talks about the forty percent of people that enjoy the government single-payer system, like seniors, veterans at the VA, etc. They like their system.
Yeah, being a veteran, I like my VA insurance so much I decided to buy my own for me and my wife. Why? I have had to wait as much as six months to see a primary care provider. Why refer to them as “A” primary care provider instead of “MY” PCP? Because they change about once or twice a year. There is no continuity in my health care at the VA. I had a CT scan of my sinuses, which have been jacked up since I worked in the military, and didn’t hear from the ENT doctor for more than three months. And when it happened, an appointment was set for me that was impossible for me to attend. My options? Show up or wait up to six more months for another appointment.
Also, I was very sick about a year and a half ago, and had to be hospitalized. My wife took me to the VA hospital emergency room, since the VA hospital is very close to where I live. I was taken through the emergency triage after waiting a few hours, where the nurse commented on every vital reading with “Oh my God!”, and “My goodness gracious!” So, I’m thinking that I’m dying. (I wasn’t far off, with a sustained heart rate of 155, BP of 80/40, and a fever of 102.8, I was in bad shape). While in the hospital, they never discovered what was actually wrong with me. They also put a needle into my right wrist in such a manner that they damaged something (possibly a nerve or muscle) and my right thumb and index finger tingled and stayed virtually numb for more than two months afterward. Evidently, and I was pretty much out of it for most of the time, but my friend was visiting at the time, and he and my wife told me that, when he saw the technician shove the needle into my wrist, he was on the verge of forcing her to leave the room and bring in a head nurse to continue the process. Evidently, I was calling out in pain for help as the nurse dug around in my wrist looking for a vein.
My current doctor, who is a primary care provider and family physician, knows my name, my wife’s name (she is seen in the same place), and my kid’s name. I am able to make appointments to be seen on Saturday if I wish, since “MY” doctor makes himself available to patients on days when they don’t have to be at work, unlike the VA, who is closed (besides the ER) on weekends and weekdays after 1630.
So why is Anthony Weiner saying we are happy with our government funded health care? I would say it is because he has never has to use the VA, or even stepped into a VA hospital to see exactly what goes on.
I think I’ll just keep my private insurance, since it is unconstitutional to mandate that I buy anything at the government’s behest. Thank you, Founding Fathers.
Peace, and God bless our troops and veterans, who consequently are not terrorists either.
OK. I’m off my soapbox.
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Amen, Tony! Our local VA doesn’t even HAVE an ER! Calling to get an ‘initial interview’ is beyond belief, and if you’re in the middle of a kidney-stone attack, well, they can see you in 6 months, but they don’t have the equipment to do lithotripsy (break up a stone with ultrasound) anyway, so big deal. We have ONE doctor who accepts Tri-Care (his two partners don’t) within 30 miles, who no longer accepts new tri-care patients. Yeah, the government takes SUCH good care of our military, both past and present, short and long-term service.