Whose Running the congress? The elected representatives or the Catholic Church and the Insurance Companies?
Analysis by Kent Manthie
Harry Reid as well as the president are two individuals who are responsible for the train wreck that this “health care reform” bill has degenerated to. Why those two? Because they are so hell-bent on passing a health-care bill before Christmas that they are bending over backwards (especially Reid, in the Senate) to appease the selfish and dogma-controlled Democrats in the Senate, namely: Joe Lieberman (I-CT) who is beholden to the giant insurance companies based in Hartford, CT – he was dead-set against any kind of public option. Then, when the Democratic leadership proposed a compromise wherein the Medicare eligibility age would be reduced from 65 to 55, Joe first said that he’d be willing to go along with that. But I guess in the interim, the CEOs of Hartford-based insurance companies like Aetna, Cigna, The Hartford and the like must have reminded him of all the money with which they’ve essentially bribed him – what the hell else are campaign contributions in reality but quid pro quos? So now Joe has done a “180” and is not supporting the so-called “Medicare buy-in option”. He was on Meet the Press last Sunday where he, in that interminable whiny nasal voice and phony smile that is his trademark, defending the bill as it would be without these things – a public option or a Medicare buy-in, saying there are still plenty of “subsidies for people in the 55-64 age range” and that it’s full of cost containments aimed at insurance companies (but probably not the ones based in Connecticut) and some other BS.
Then there’s the jerk from Nebraska – Ben Nelson, who is more right-wing than his former NE Senate-mate, Chuck Hagel who was a moderate Republican. Nelson and Orrin Hatch had brewed up this horrible, 16th century type of amendment to the bill that would restrict abortion by disallowing any public monies that go to health care providers to perform abortions. What? Wait a damn minute – abortion is LEGAL, get it, Ben? It is a legal health care procedure and he seems to be taking his cues (along with another Democratic, anti-abortion, anti-choice senator, Bob Casey (D-PA) from the National Council of Bishops – which by now should be known as the Catholic arm of NAMBLA.
We have a separation of church and state for a reason and this is one of them. So – if this group of pederasts are whispering in these senators ears, telling them to put restrictive abortion language in the bill, that is politicking, plain and simple and so the Catholic church ought to be taxed just like any other lobbying group or political influence hacks. Luckily Nelson and Hatch’s amendment failed miserably (go figure!) but the issue continues to be an albatross around the necks of reasonable Democrats that want a fair bill, not a rushed through bill just to have it done before the end of the year, that is just plain STUPID.
What needs to happen is a massive email, letter and phone call campaign from grass roots American citizens to these oddballs telling them they don’t want restrictions on a woman’s right to choose and that suffering Americans that face termination of their insurance everyday right in the middle of expensive but life-or-death consequential treatment – chemotherapy, radiation treatments, MRIs to detect problems in time to save lives as well as diabetes treatments, asthma medicines and the list goes on.
Remember – 2010 is an election year and this time there will be more Democratic seats up for grabs – now, of course, if the Republicans sneaked back into the majority you can pretty much count this country out as far as any kind of “superpower” – we’ll be too broke to do anything and too sick as well.
The cavemen Republicans will do nothing at all to offer any kind of alternatives or changes; all they want to do is to kill the bill, plain and simple – that is what minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told Rush Limbaugh – another hypocrite of vast proportion – he’s nothing but a doctor-shopping, pill-popping junkie, addicted to oxycontin and that makes him no better than any heroin addict, the only difference is that he has the money to keep his habit going so he’s not going to be hitting bottom anytime soon – not while he has plenty of money to stay well every day.
This whole health care bill as it looks today is nothing but a sham for the “American People” – an idiom that is really trite but for lack of a better term… I say, screw the Christmas deadline, slow down and get this right – plus give the voters plenty of time to email en masse messages to awful, no good senators like Ben Nelson of NE, Bob Casey of PA and Joe Lieberman of CT – they all stand in the way of the real change that voters voted for in 2008. And speaking of the election of 2008, how come Obama is just sitting on his ass, not doing anything to slap some sense into these ideologues (and in Joe’s case just a selfish money-grubbing, indentured servant to the insurance industry, based in his home state. Now, you won’t hear him talking about those things, instead he’ll just gush and say how wonderful the bill will be without any public option or Medicare buy-in, that there is still plenty of “subsidies” available for the very people he is trying to screw. I don’t know what subsidies he’s talking about, maybe there’s a 1% drop in premiums or a way to get one free pill for every prescription you have to forego your heating bill to pay for.
So now it’s up to you, America, is this what you want? The last time I heard, the majority of this country was staunchly pro-choice and in favor of the public option. So, obviously, these papists and bribe takers are just demagogues, trying to jam they’re will into the legislation. So, if this kind of nonsense is not taken care of, call your Senators and Congressmen and tell them to vote NO on the bill as it is looking right now. We don’t need this kind of change, we need real reform – NOW! - KM