But I forget, 54% of Americans don't know that Medicare (and presumably Medicaid) are government programs... gah! The stupid! It burns, it burns!
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Unclear on the concept
So Rep. Trent Franks (R-Moron) holds a press conference, dutifully covered by the Christian Taliban's official press organ (CNS), where he claims that government-provided health care would be bad for the disabled and would result in the killing of disabled children and adults. Problem: The majority of the disabled are already on Medicare or Medicaid, and no such killing has happened.
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It would seem to me that if the rethuglican congresscritters are so opposed to gummint-funded healthcare, they should renounce their Congressional healthcare plan -- which after all is a gummint program -- and purchase equivalent coverage on the open market. Given the coverage they have, it probably wouldn't cost more than, oh, maybe ten thousand bucks a month.
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ReplyDeleteOf course, if they did so, any existing conditions would be "pre-existing" under the new insurance, and hence, not covered. But since they don't mind excluding pre-existing for us, they shouldn't mind it for themselves, right?
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