Yeah, I was going as to ask the British or Canadian posters on here how many of their family members have died waiting for surgeries because they were simply lost in the NHS. According to these Republican attack ads, you guys shouldn't even be alive or have families at the moment.
This bill has passed the House. Woot. Now a separate bill will pass the Senate, after being gutted and retooled for months. Then, after both bills are finally passed, a separate committee will take over and try to meld the bills together. After that new bill is made, it either goes to the President for a signature, or it goes back to the House and Senate to be passed. I can't remember which, but either way it'll be a long time before the Health Care Bill actually reaches Obama's desk.
I find it increasingly more frustrating the more I see these "Christian" politicians fighting helping the sick or giving money to the poor. Welfare is horrible, Medicaid is shit because we need to give tax breaks to the wealthy and pump more money into programs we don't need. Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure God said something about healing the sick, giving to the poor, and not spending hundreds of billions of dollars on two wars that have slowly but surely lost their footing. I'll back the Afghanistan war, but I won't ever back the Iraq War. That thing was a clusterfuck since Day One. I'm just sorry that our troops had to die in that, and that hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens died in the bombings/subsequent civil war.
You know what though, don't listen to me. I'm just the kid who is going to not be able to find health insurance after he's kicked off of TriCARE because he's too old to be a military dependent in 3 years and can't get new insurance because I have asthma, sinus issues, and probably will be tagged with Depression/some sort of mental disease after my shrink visit Tuesday. Asthma and sinus problems that could make me go blind without medication are two pretty pre-existing conditions that I'm hoping will be let through by the insurance companies, but mental illness? I'm doubting it, especially if I have to take incredibly expensive medication. I'll be kicked to the curb. You know it's bad when I'm hoping I'll not make enough money to transcend the poverty line. Then I can get Medicare, and get the medication I need and still feed myself with the money I make from my job.
But! If they institute a national option for Healthcare we'll shortly become Socialists. It's weird how everyone seems to hate Socialism over here, but we fucking suck the dick of Britain and Canada for help in our wars. They're probably the prime examples of Socialism to our lonely eyes, and we demonize their political philosophies while wanting them to have our back in the wars we wage.
We're going to be good, God-fearing Americans that love our Constitution, god damn it. And to be good, God-fearing Americans we have to suck it up when we're dying of a disease and can't cure it, starve to death instead of taking some of those Government Food Stamps, and we have to vote Republican. Because we all know Reagan is the second-coming of Jesus Christ. He instituted Reaganomics, that wonderful policy that gave us decades of economic growth!
