So they'll let the government decide when to go to war and kill their husbands and sons.
But not let them decide when a change in healthcare is in their best interest or not.
( girlinthehole, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:04, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Exactly
What I see happening is that the right wing politicians are owned lock stock and barrel by big money and will do anything to keep sucking at the tits of their owners. They are extremely good at propaganda and use the media (that so many americans blindly follow) to scream lies about creeping socialism and government forcing people who are older to be killed etc.

Interestingly, when a lot of the people who have been drinking the right wing Kool-Aid are asked about specific portions of the health bill, they are all for them.

If you are not aware of it, once you’re past 65 in the us, you are enrolled into Medicare, which is basically a government run health care program. It was really funny to literally see people screaming that the health bill was going to put government in charge of their Medicare. They didn't even know how the system already works. TV is one great opiate.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:13, Reply)

I didn't know about Medicare for the aged.
I figure there must be something for the poor re healthcare but it can't be very easy to get.
( girlinthehole, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:19, Reply)

There is Medicade which "covers"
the poor but really only covers emergency care and not much of that.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:23, Reply)