HTF can you be against health-care for children?
…isn’t that the first rule politicians learn: nestle-up to vets & kiss the babies?
Why not say “fuck mom & I hate apple pie”?!!
…All those childhood years of hearing about Marie Antoinette, about how her basic obliviousness was part-&-parcel of the utter cluelessness of the French Ruling Class… how her words were totemic in galvanizing the French Revolution. And most of all, how she deserved whatever she (& the Aristocracy) got (ie, their heads separated from their necks).
But I ask you– when somebody has no health insurance; has no ability to get to a doctor; (barely) able to get to an Emergency Room; to then wait for literally dozens of hours to be seen by harried, overworked ER doctors who are trained to deal with major trauma victims first & foremost… And then finally to almost certainly default on payment for the (understandably) premium-price that is charged by ER’s… (they are for “emergencies”, not for ‘normal medical care’; it’s in their very name!)
…And yet Bush says: “I mean, people have access to health care in America,” he said. “After all, you just go to an emergency room.” link…
Or how about when he said last week, “they don’t need Government Health Care; they can just ask their doctor”.
I ask you– doesn’t that sound a bit familiar?
Someone else who has absolutely no clue about whom they were talking about? Someone born w/ a silver spoon so far down their throats they simply couldn’t conceive of lacking basic sustenance; the question was never “eat or go hungry”, but rather “eat lobster or go eat steak”:
“Why do they need bread? Let them eat cake”
…I wonder– As Euripides said, “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad”. Could this be, at the very last, a chance for the Dems to override a Presidential veto?????
If that happens, that will open the floodgates… if at first a trickle, before the roar:
We can only hope.