Donna Brazille tweets: Why did my health care premiums go up?

Donna Brazille tweets: Why did my health care premiums go up? Like you said, Tweety, #healthcareworks… but what they forgot to mention was #nofreelunch.

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  • Please no facts I can't deal with them. My teachers and mentors wouldn't have lied to me.

    Just like Mao, Hitler, Castro and others wouldn't have lied to all of their minions and useful idiots.

    Face the fact you've been fed a line and have swallowed it hook line and sinker. The gray matter between your ears is for more than trying to kill off the weak ones. Use them.

  • Welcome to the wonderful world of Socialized Medicine. Please take a number and one of our representatives will be in contact with you in about 6 months.
    For those of you with expensive medical conditions, might we strongly recommend the Plue Pill option.

    • Pretty close, or as one of my Canadian customers told me this week,

      "If you need an MRI, expect to wait 6 months, unless you are a politician or sports star, then it's next day service."

    • In a free market, costs come down because businesses figure out how to provide the best service for the least amount of money to get more clients. When the government mandates, regulates, prices and controls an industry, costs go higher, because there is no incentive to increase the value to the consumer.

      It's not rocket surgery.

    • If you had said a corrupt gov't that wants to control EVERY PART OF YOUR LIFE, you would have correct. Instead, you proved why we need death panels.

  • Dear Abby,

    My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit card bills and at the end of the month,
    if I try to pay them off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the minimum and let our kids
    worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up with the interest. Also, he has been so arrogant and abusive
    toward our neighbors that most of them no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch, to whom he has
    been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more. Also, he has gotten religious. One week he hangs
    out with Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ, and the next he 's with Muslims.

    Finally, the last straw. He 's demanding that before anyone can be in the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty
    oath. It 's just so horribly creepy! Can you help?

    Signed, Lost

    Dear Lost,

    Suck it up and stop whining, Michelle. You 're getting to live in the White House for free, travel the world, and have
    others pay for everything for you. You can divorce the jerk any time you want. The rest of us are stuck with the idiot
    for 4 more years.

    Signed, Abby

  • "No good answer!" Does that mean she didn't get an answer...or that she just didn't like the one she did get. Or maybe it's an existential comment on the Obamacare leviathan as a whole...