Story of the day...cranky seniors, fearmongerers and ambulance chasers....

It's been hard wrapping myself around a "story of the day" lately, since apparently everything is hunky dory in Iran and the collective American pulse has moved to the appalling prospect of making sure that citizens have health care. Everyday the media has been transfixed, because there's nothing like a good shouting/pushing match, isn't there?

What my take on this whole bullshit comes down to this...

The President/administration wants to put through a reform to healthcare. It's been pretty vague what specifically this reform would take, whether it be more regulation of the insurance industry, or a public option where people can choose to be in a group that can negotiate just like the major employers can. (There's also the boogeyman of a "single payer option", where all "insurance" would be a government handled affair.) How did this become the coming of Armegeddon? And especially to the ignorant Seizure Villagers that rot away while sucking on Medicare's teet? Would these fucktards feel the same if they were set free to pay for their own fire protection, which is used way less? I see videos of these ranting bitties at town halls, and think "my God, they're just happy somebody's listening to them and not just ignoring them in their nursing home!". Couple them with a few shills from the insurance agency (the biggest sham in this economic time), quite a few rascists that are happy to be able to be pissed as hell that a black man is our president, and passive lemmings, and you've got a recipe for Salem witch stew.

And jumping on that bandwagon are oppurtunistic snake-oil politicians, who utilize these pre-planned throngs of stupid to give them a little more air/funding time. Best amongst this is the uber-fucktard Sarah Palin. To paraphrase Keith O., Sarah Victim is dangling her mongoloid child like Michael Jackson at a hotel to further her Q rating, sensationally stating that she fears a 'death panel' would make her somehow euthanize her daughter. FUCK YOU. FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOU...sorry, everytime I think about that cunt, all I hear is a million 'fuck yous'... First off, who's paying for your healthcare now? Hmm? Second, you certainly can't be in dire straits due to medical bills, since you're jetting off to New York to be feted with lobster and champagne, huh? Read this account from someone really affected by this issue...

You have no idea what it’s like to be called into a sterile conference room with a hospital administrator you’ve never met before and be told that your mother’s insurance policy will only pay for 30 days in ICU. You can't imagine what it's like to be advised that you need to “make some decisions,” like whether your mother should be released “HTD” which is hospital parlance for “home to die,” or if you want to pay out of pocket to keep her in the ICU another week. And when you ask how much that would cost you are given a number so impossibly large that you realize there really are no decisions to make. The decision has been made for you. "Living will" or no, it doesn't matter. The bank account and the insurance policy have trumped any legal document.

If this isn’t a “death panel” I don’t know what is.

All i wish is for this woman to get 30 minutes in a room with Palin to kick the living shit out of that pussy. And then have no healthcare option. See how that goes.

Lastly, it ws only a matter of time where the "angry mob" produces a fame-hungry freak like Kid Kwame body double Kenneth Gladney, who proactively got into a pushing match at a town hall, and turned it into a whiplash scheme to make the rounds at Fox News, even stupidly pushing the "hate crime" card, even though the supposed "attacker" (read person he initially shoved) was also black. Kenneth (cause lord I know you only go by your full dork-ass name), go throw some boiling McDonalds coffee on your ass and get the fuck out.

And to all the other cranky fucks who are writing the Rush/Beck screeds to blather out loud to whoever would hear... Answer me this, as I've asked this before...

Those people without insurance that you despise, as freeloaders just as people on welfare (unless they're from your family), when they get sick, they go to the emergency room. Who the FUCK do you think pays for that? The hospital fairy? NO, he only gives out the jello, dickweed.

And by the way, I feel very lucky to be someone who is well-insured, does NOT fear losing it, knows the other side is lying, and am proud to be a union member, who fights for workers' rights like this.

And lastly, to that woman in the picture on top, I hope you fucking stroke out, and lay in an emergency room for hours with someone figuring out what the fuck to do with your sorry ass. It'd probably up your IQ 50 points as well.