Open Thread * If the GOP Wishes to Heal Itself, It Could Start By Showing SOME People the Door
By Bronwyn's Harbor on November 17, 2008 at 5:55 PM in Health Care, Open Thread
Show the door to people like these:
As you all know, we are led by a very wise man, Larry Johnson. Larry, being the Federalist he is, is troubled by that Prop 8 passed in California.
And, just today, in an e-mail to our little private writers’ list, Larry wrote (and I trust he doesn’t mind if I quote him):
I just wish folks would mind their own business. If homosexuals want to marry, they should be allowed. The notion of putting Government in charge of telling people who they should love and who they should sleep with always strikes me like a nightmare of sharia law unleashed here.
“… a nightmare of sharia law unleashed here …
Take that, Human Events, and stuff it up your righteous asses.
How DARE you preach about the dangers of Muslims taking over Europe and the utter necessity of breaking down people’s bedroom doors, when you’re unwilling to give health care to the tens of millions of hard-working people and their children in this country?
What f–king kind of morality is that, Human Events?
Leave people be but, my god, we have a totally broken health care system in this country. Even me! I’m on disability, which is a pittance. Subsistence. But right off the top, every month, I pay $350 to various supplemental policies and for drugs not covered by my insurance — even though I qualify for special help with prescriptions.
Thank god I did sign up for all of those supplemental policies because, when I did, I had no clue that I would have to have both of my hips replaced — with two weeks of hospitalization that involved intensive rehabilitation — followed by home health care visits from nurses, occupational and physical therapists.
And i had no clue that I’d have a ruptured appendix for FOUR months before it was finally diagnosed (I never had a fever and my white blood cell count was normal, and all I kept saying to my doctor was that I didn’t feel good and my arms ached like I had the flu), which meant many hours of surgery to clean out the huge mess inside me — peritonitis and a six-inch infected mass and leakage from ugh-guess-where (that surgeon was utterly exhausted when he finally got me cleaned out). Then I spent a full week in the hospital, and then a Wound-Vac for six weeks with nearly daily home health nurse visits to change the dressings that they stuffed into my huge open wound. My poor doctor is consumed with guilt. But I told him I have one of those healthy farm-family genetically-strong bodies, and I do not give off the normal symptoms that most people do. My stomach area only hurt the last week before my surgery even though, the surgeon is certain, the appendix had clearly ruptured at least four months before. My primary care doc — who’s the sweetest man — now knows to check my Sed Rate on my blood tests. It’s the only signal my body gives off, but it’s a weak signal. So …
If I had not signed up for those supplementals, I’d have had to shell out $1,000 just to get in the front door of a hospital each time. And would have had no home health care or coverage for the WoundVac or any of that. It would have cost tens of thousands of dollars that, obviously, I don’t have nor does anyone have to give to me.
Then, since i’m me I (but me sounds better there), I feel guilty as hell for costing those supplemental health insurance plans so much money this past year.
Enough of that.
But John McCain’s health care plan was idiotic. I like a lot of things about John McCain, but that sure wasn’t one of them.
Republicans, get the hell out of homosexuals’ lives and concentrate on doing GOOD WORKS for American citizens who desperately need your help.
By the way, Barack Obama needs to stop thinking he can have it both ways as well. He said he was against Prop. 8 while also stating he believes marriage is only between a man and a woman, so while I’m telling the Republicans to get off it, the Democrats in the “New World Order” don’t get to get away with being hypocrites, either.
P.S. All this notwithstanding, I am rooting for Barack Obama to do well because our country needs him to succeed. It would be TWISTED to wish for him to fail. It’s tempting, of course, but we must listen to our better angels as we all teeter on a precipice.
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