The sad part of this is the states attorneys general pushing the frivolous lawsuits forward to prove the unconstitutionality of the legislation are using money many of those states do not have to spare on a campaign designed to do nothing but further impoverish them. Idaho is one state in particular and the gumner and ag both acknowledge the funding of their lawsuit will make already harsh economic situations tougher.
For what? To try to prove providing health care coverage for all is unconstitutional? If so, then so is Medicare. So is Social Security. So are all national attempts to help those in the most need. I suspect somewhere in that dimly lit closet of conservative woolies this might be the ultimate goal: testing the constitutionality of actually having a social conscience.
All but the dimmest of the rethugs (and in reality, most of them are beyond dim) will realize by the end of the summer that not only is the legislation fine when measured against the Constitution, it is also a very fine thing for the citizens of this country.
Mandating health care? The vast, vast majority have no dog in that fight because they are already covered. The 30 - 40 million who do not have coverage will be estatic to have whatever minimal help they might get from the new changes coming up. Maybe they will understand the comfort the nay-sayers have when they too will be able to afford to go to the doctor, not the emergency room. Maybe the nay-sayers will finally figure out the savings are not from just providing a somewhat minimalist approach at universal coverage but from fewer emergency room visits. Being able to go to a doctor is far cheaper than taking pot luck in an ER. Not just is immediate enormous cost but in long term health coverage benefits.
Might the big bad gummint demand folks buy health care insurance? Yes. The same way the demand folks buy car insurance and vehicle registration and pay taxes and all the other things this society has decided they will. If you want to not buy health care insurance, don’t buy it.
The loudmouth morons who are yelping about mandates and socialism and boogeymen and scary things in the trees at night and lemon flavored cough drops are the very ones who will step forward first with their hands out for that very vilified gummint health care system to help them out when they need the help.
I have seen hundreds of instances in my nearly sixty-four years where the so called rock-ribbed conservatives become all rubbery when they have need for assistance from their fellows. Maybe in this case, we should see just how rock-ribbed these vermin actually are. The next time one of these uninsured dolts needs a few stiches maybe they ought to be turned away from the gates of civilization.
When you consider how much easier it will be for the self employed to get coverage, that makes it very worthwhile. The pre-existing condition part also makes it very worthwhile. In this society health care should be an affordable right of every one.
^ apparently, he was lying. First, he praises the excellent healthcare in Hawaii, not knowing it has universal healthcare; then, he says he’ll move to Costa Rica, not knowing it has universal healthcare. Can we ship him to Yemen?
I highly doubt that the bureaucrats running this new healthcare program will part with their own BCBS Premera plans in favor of the hash they’re still kicking around in the Senate currently; I mean, Pelosi the Papist needs her botox, for one; or if you want to read a good example of how too many bureaucrats and too much money can be a bad thing, particularly for a passionate doctor, advocating reform, then read this…http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/01/fixing-va-health-care/
kennethcwarren64 about 14 years ago
Great cartoon – Love the comment from the little man, it is sooo true.
Not the best of all possible bills, maybe not even a really good bill, but now it is no longer a bill, but a law, and something to build on.
Medicare didn’t start strong, and the GOP came close to killing it a couple of times, but it (like health care reform) was needed, and grew.
believecommonsense about 14 years ago
Some significant gamesmanship going on in the Senate right now.
finefox Premium Member about 14 years ago
I didn’t know that King Pyrrus comanded at Waterloo.
charliekane about 14 years ago
On the bloody morning after… One tin Boehner rides away…
d_legendary1 about 14 years ago
John Bohnehead rallies his oops!
Ink-adink-adoo about 14 years ago
Okay, we’ll “Kill the Bill”… and make it a law, thank you.
zekedog55 about 14 years ago
Whoops, just thanked riko on the Sarah toon page.
He’s back! Why the hiatus?
Now the Dems would do well to govern strong and steady through the spring and summer.
hintzy about 14 years ago
@ zeke: Pat is allowed to take vacations too. :-p
T Gabriel Premium Member about 14 years ago
The sad part of this is the states attorneys general pushing the frivolous lawsuits forward to prove the unconstitutionality of the legislation are using money many of those states do not have to spare on a campaign designed to do nothing but further impoverish them. Idaho is one state in particular and the gumner and ag both acknowledge the funding of their lawsuit will make already harsh economic situations tougher.
For what? To try to prove providing health care coverage for all is unconstitutional? If so, then so is Medicare. So is Social Security. So are all national attempts to help those in the most need. I suspect somewhere in that dimly lit closet of conservative woolies this might be the ultimate goal: testing the constitutionality of actually having a social conscience.
All but the dimmest of the rethugs (and in reality, most of them are beyond dim) will realize by the end of the summer that not only is the legislation fine when measured against the Constitution, it is also a very fine thing for the citizens of this country.
Mandating health care? The vast, vast majority have no dog in that fight because they are already covered. The 30 - 40 million who do not have coverage will be estatic to have whatever minimal help they might get from the new changes coming up. Maybe they will understand the comfort the nay-sayers have when they too will be able to afford to go to the doctor, not the emergency room. Maybe the nay-sayers will finally figure out the savings are not from just providing a somewhat minimalist approach at universal coverage but from fewer emergency room visits. Being able to go to a doctor is far cheaper than taking pot luck in an ER. Not just is immediate enormous cost but in long term health coverage benefits.
Might the big bad gummint demand folks buy health care insurance? Yes. The same way the demand folks buy car insurance and vehicle registration and pay taxes and all the other things this society has decided they will. If you want to not buy health care insurance, don’t buy it.
The loudmouth morons who are yelping about mandates and socialism and boogeymen and scary things in the trees at night and lemon flavored cough drops are the very ones who will step forward first with their hands out for that very vilified gummint health care system to help them out when they need the help.
I have seen hundreds of instances in my nearly sixty-four years where the so called rock-ribbed conservatives become all rubbery when they have need for assistance from their fellows. Maybe in this case, we should see just how rock-ribbed these vermin actually are. The next time one of these uninsured dolts needs a few stiches maybe they ought to be turned away from the gates of civilization.
deadheadzan about 14 years ago
When you consider how much easier it will be for the self employed to get coverage, that makes it very worthwhile. The pre-existing condition part also makes it very worthwhile. In this society health care should be an affordable right of every one.
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
When the sour-grapes AG suit reaches the Supreme Court, how many AG’s from Blue states are going to file amicus briefs in support of the law?
jaxaction about 14 years ago
has mush limbough the junkie dope head left the US yet? or was he lying when he said he’d leave upon passing of health ‘reform”?
believecommonsense about 14 years ago
^ apparently, he was lying. First, he praises the excellent healthcare in Hawaii, not knowing it has universal healthcare; then, he says he’ll move to Costa Rica, not knowing it has universal healthcare. Can we ship him to Yemen?
Lt_Lanier about 14 years ago
I highly doubt that the bureaucrats running this new healthcare program will part with their own BCBS Premera plans in favor of the hash they’re still kicking around in the Senate currently; I mean, Pelosi the Papist needs her botox, for one; or if you want to read a good example of how too many bureaucrats and too much money can be a bad thing, particularly for a passionate doctor, advocating reform, then read this…http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/01/fixing-va-health-care/