Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A Good "Thought For The Day"

Over at his own blog, Badtux the Snarky Penguin had an excellent and very true "thought for the day". It was so good that I wanted all my readers to hear it. Here is what that smart penguin had to say:

"Medicare single-payer 'socialist' healthcare for old people has been around for 40 years now. Funny, I haven't noticed that Medicare has made me any less free."

It's short, sweet and very incisive. Is anyone less free because Medicare came into existence forty years ago? Why would extending that single-payer Medicare system to everyone interfere with anyone's freedom (except the freedom of private insurers to rip off their consumers)?

Republicans and insurance lobbyists are very busy trying to scare the American people. Don't let them do it! A public health insurance option is not about freedom. It is about making decent health care available to everyone and saving lives. It's just that simple.

2 comments:

  1. Well by now you have read the entire Health care (ObamaCare)law. Do you still get goose bumps thinking what a piece of crap you were promoting back before your actually read the thing? Unfunded mandates, 1099 taxes, not covering all Americans, letting some unions and large corporations opt out of the law (if you supported Obama in the last election you don't have follow obamaCare package and extra tax. Well as they use to say their is a sucker born every day. Maybe next time you jump on a band wagon check to see if it has any wheels.

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  2. Where did you get the idea I supported "ObamaCare"? I have always said on this blog that I favored a public option or single-payer insurance.

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