The
Sieve of hypocrisies and hyperbole
When
did America become such a callous place to live? So uncaring,
calculating and manipulative? These House Republicans, many of whom
claim very Christian-based roots, just eradicated any charitable act
they've ever done by voting yes on a bill that will put 24,000,000
off health care. Hand to their god, they will go straight to hell.
They wrote The Book, they wrote the bill (and did not read it), and
will celebrate both. Thankfully, as Schoolhouse Rock taught
the generation Xers, Bill is a few steps from becoming law.
This
scrap of success in an administration grasping at held lung-fulls of
air for one of the many wins it was to have makes it so clear. Their
well-rehearsed, lobbied, money-driven, pro-life balk is a giant load
of crap. Is each child, as a barely consolable POTUS said after
seeing sarin gas killing babies, deserving of a life or not? Pick
one, it can't be both ways. Balk is balk and talk is talk, and you
can't have either without the walk. How much legislative energy and
taxpayer money has been spent over the decades as the right for an
unborn baby to live is contested. Its worth may be weighed, its
impact on society, society's impact on it, the ability of the mother
and (hopefully) the father to raise it into a healthy child are all
considered. Let's say that child is diagnosed with a genetic heart
malady by the time they are two. A pre-existing condition. What if
the child is not fortunate enough to be born to someone like Jimmy
Kimmel who has insurance? Someone who could afford out-of-pocket
fees? I hazard that their argument might be that God, in his
infinite wisdom, has babies with per-existing conditions, or preemies
needing care only to wealthy parents. What is wrong with this idea,
even if it is conceived? A struggling family to begin with might not
be well fed, so much so that the mother bares a malnourished baby
that requires weeks of costly pre-natal care. How does it make sense
to fight for the right to life but then when that life begins out of
the womb suddenly it is devalued. What is this bullshitted
double-speak? Are we talking about humans or cars?
I
have never seen such hypocrisy. The US government now is a circuitous
route. It is the T-4 they take. It runs from Wall Street past slums,
projects, public hospitals, Planed Parenthood, NRA, middle-class
America, straight into the pockets of the DeVosses, Trumps, et al. Al
should really be ashamed. This diabolical fast-track to enriching the
stitching of Armani suits is not the America anyone knew. I highly
doubt it's the America those white middle-class back roads
baby-makers saw. Some of them voted , negating crooked Hillary (who I
can't imagine even thinking of taking merits of the ACA away) for a
fraud who swore up and down that he'd make health care accessible
to EVERYONE. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot—that parcel,
those poor shlubs who felt “economically left behind” somehow see
their station in life getting better with this guy? Not voting for
Trump and voting for Clinton is the wisest thing I've ever done. It's
the thing of which I can be the most proud. I can rest in
peace. And, if I want to be a vindictive asshole, when I see a dying
man who voted for Trump and had health care taken away, I'll say “I
did not vote for the guy.” I'd rub it in if I were so inclined.
Back in the 15 minutes of Sarah Palin, when everyone right of Wall
Street feared SOCIALISM, the term death panels was thrown around with
a hyperbolic truthfulness. To me the scenario of a team of doctors
conversing in the hall, determining your fate, was created. They were
more sterile than sterile is, goosestepping like washed-up wanna-be
Nazi eugenic medical personnel. It was medicine by the numbers.
However yesterday those death panels were wide open, no bars held, no
need to pull a plug. These thugs would not even allow a cancer to
make it to the plug-pulling, decision of any anal stage.
Actually,
in those death panel hyperbole days, I was buying insurance through
an HMO. There was no goose dropping lining the walk but I did get the
sense it was more of business than anything resembling a helpful,
caring, efficient doctor visit. A decade later things have changed,
and I am (or was) benefiting from the ACA. My experience has been
much better. Smoother, more efficient, less waiting. Doctors do not
work under a fat-cat CEO's gun. I know from working in medical
records that a doctor is (was) supposed to spend a finite amount of
time on each patient. Usually that was between 8 and 15 minuets.
Working for the “man.” Clinics like the ACA. Hospitals like the
ACA. Every association for any disease likes it. They still have at
least an ounce of compassion. They believe the future of the first of
the declaration of independence's inalienable right is not hyperbole.
No comments:
Post a Comment