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[ProSense]

Michael Moore

The Great Thing About the Health Care Law That Has Passed? It Will Save Republican Lives, Too

To My Fellow Citizens, the Republicans:

Thanks to last night's vote, that child of yours who has had asthma since birth will now be covered after suffering for her first nine years as an American child with a pre-existing condition.

Thanks to last night's vote, that 23-year-old of yours who will be hit one day by a drunk driver and spend six months recovering in the hospital will now not go bankrupt because you will be able to keep him on your insurance policy.

Thanks to last night's vote, after your cancer returns for the third time -- racking up another $200,000 in costs to keep you alive -- your insurance company will have to commit a criminal act if they even think of dropping you from their rolls.

Yes, my Republican friends, even though you have opposed this health care bill, we've made sure it is going to cover you, too, in your time of need. I know you're upset right now. I know you probably think that if you did get wiped out by an illness, or thrown out of your home because of a medical bankruptcy, that you would somehow pull yourself up by your bootstraps and survive. I know that's a comforting story to tell yourself, and if John Wayne were still alive I'm sure he could make that into a movie for you.

But the reality is that these health insurance companies have only one mission: To take as much money from you as they can -- and then work like demons to deny you whatever coverage and help they can should you get sick.

So, when you find yourself suddenly broadsided by a life-threatening illness someday, perhaps you'll thank those pinko-socialist, Canadian-loving Democrats and independents for what they did Sunday evening.

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[ProSense]

1. No comment? n/t

[jwirr]

2. LOL

[applegrove]

3. very well said. Too bad M M couldn't have run the democrats latest electoral race.

[ROFF]

4. I believe that the greatest thing about the Health Care Law

is that it is a start. I have lived in Saskatchewan ( home of socialized health care in North America ) for 65 years. We got free hospital in the late '40s and free doctor in 1962. Even now the Government is tweaking our Medicare. And our present Government is as right wing as they come. I do not fear this, for if they were perceived to harm MediCare, they would not be re-elected for two generations, the public likes our MediCare so much.

So do not fear, your Health Care Law will be improved over time. Once it becomes as popular in the US as it is in Canada, the Republicans would not dare to harm it.

In the last provincial budget, the Sask Party ( Republican wanna-bes ) actually cut spending but proudly boasted how they increased health care spending. They know on which side their bread is buttered.

Your job, if I may be so bold, is to elect governments who care about you, push them in the direction that you want and support them even if you do not get exactly everything that you want. It takes time.

A perfect plan today may not be a perfect plan tomorrow.

[GSLevel9]

5. hmmmm...

Your Quote: So do not fear, your Health Care Law will be improved over time. Once it becomes as popular in the US as it is in Canada, the Republicans would not dare to harm it.

it won't have time... the Tea Bag Congress rolls into town in a couple weeks and HCR is square in their sights. Right NOW the HCR doesn't enjoy majority public support. They will assail the Bill for 2 years, I believe they'd even cut any possible funding. Now if it were a real public option... but that's just a pipe dream.

[TheKentuckian]

6. It isn't a start but rather an adaptation of the existing toxic system.

An adaptation that is the continuation of industry cost shifting wrapped up in neoliberal ideology pushing the idiotic "wise consumers of healthcare" logic as the principle force of systemic cost containment.

Death Panels will be real but it will just be you and your denying yourself care because you can't afford it.