If you don’t read anything else today, read this. Educate yourself. Insurance is not a right. Insurance is a contract. If an individual decides to forego health insurance until he/she is deathly ill why should the rest of us be required to pay for it? It would be really nice if those in power espoused personal responsibility. But they don’t. That’s why I’m here.
If you care to continue reading, head on over to Yid with Lid to read about how the Russians will be drilling off the US coast. Yeah, and we aren’t allowed to. How ironic is that?
You’re still here? Great! Now you can find out how they’re indoctrinating our kids on Sesame Street. Just know this – the person who wrote that post was most likely schooled by a liberal.
Finally, don’t believe it when they tell you that fixing health care won’t add to the deficit. That’s a big fat lie!
And just who was it who decided our health care system was broken, anyway?
Feel free to report me to Dear Leader.
This was too much for one post. I need these stories spread out through the day. I can hardly handle this much foolishness at once.
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Wow, that Tracinski article is a heart-stopper!
WRT the Sesame Street thing, here’s what I just sent that website:
I’m trying to understand the motivation for this cockamamie idea. What data is there to support that children are having financial security issues that need to be addressed via a TV show? Why don’t you teach Sesame Street viewers about fiscal responsibility? How about an episode teaching kids that in the real world, unlike at taxpayer-funded PBS, money doesn’t fall out of the sky? How about an episode teaching children that stealing other kids’ possessions is wrong and unjust, using President Obama’s entire wealth distribution scheme as your prime example. Assuming there are more left-leaning Obama-voters there at PBS than not, here’s how they really should address financial insecurity: By admitting to their young viewers that the president most of them voted for just made them, their children, and their grandchildren broke. Broke, broke, broke. Call me a killjoy, but this is a ridiculous idea.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
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P.S. I’m a conservative from a blue state too. Just blogrolled you, if you’d like to do the same …
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How do you keep up with it all, LC? Thanks for all the info.It’s enough to make my head explode.
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If things are SOOOOO bad, how is it that these kids are able to watch Sesame Street anyway? Because I’m betting Mom & Dad didn’t buy a converter, they’re still paying the cable bill….hmmmm….maybe time to teach children how to “do what you have to do” and maintain a lifestyle that also includes values and standards.
Tracinski’s article was so perfect, I’ve email blasted it. 20 years ago, when I was a youngster, I worked in homeowners insurance. And came to understand what it was and what its purpose was. And understood that, gee, if you can AFFORD to repair your home, get a flu shot, etc., with cash that’s really what you’re supposed to do. Insurance—of ALL types—is meant to be used when the cost is catastrophic; when it is too big to handle with cash or payment plans. And at some point people decided it was funds sitting there to be used (how about all of the people we work with who run to the doctor for every sniffle, because if they ‘don’t use it, it’s just wasted this year’??). Insurance was never meant to finance those routine bumps in the road. And health insurance provided by employers was never a right! It’s an INCENTIVE to work there.
That whole “reap what you sow” thing is going to be so painful, and I resent being dragged along for the ride. But it comforts me to see all of you in here, as upset as I am.
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I love Tracinski, glad you linked to his work. By the way, just heard that Goldman’s Abbey Joseph Cohen says she sees improvements in the labor market and believes a new bull market has begun. (sheesh, don’t tell the unemployed, please) Sad, so sad, that people can have no conscience. Of course, this isn’t the first time she has blatantly lied to the investing public.
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Our health care is not broken: it is a stretch limo which people want to get the MPG of a moped.
Health insurance, well… not horrible, but some strange stuff in the fine print. Maternity, for example, is part of most employer-subsidised policies but if you buy an individual policy and you or your wife has a baby two years into coverage it is a “pre-existing condition” and not covered? Weird!
Government coverage – another example from the UK:
*Back Pain? So What?*
“The Government’s drug rationing watchdog says “therapeutic” injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known.”
But you may be able to see – an acupuncturist.
Cut “users” from 60000 to 3000 – great cost savings!
And the bit about unknown cause – expand that a bit. The cause of most cancers is not known – no more meds? Migraines? Diabetes? We do not know the cause of most problems, and now they are starting to drop treatment if the cause is not known?
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