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Now whether or not you consider heart valve replacement surgery routine for a women of 83 years of age is one thing, but what can not be disputed is the joy and relief expressed by the former president. How many other Americans will have this privilege? How many of us now know that when the time comes, our own loved ones will be similarly cared for? These are particularly relevant questions when douche nozzles like Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) has the gall to state that "Health care is a privilege...It's not necessarily a right."
Fuck you. Seriously.
Fix health care now for the rest of us.
Labels: Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, health care
Nicely put. I think Obama needs to see this as a wake up call and take the health care = privliage and not necessarly a right and turn that right around.
And another thing, fair enough former first lady gets great treatment but why does she get such highlight. Ok, ok I do know why she gets such highlight, but I want to live to see the day where the average joe gets to go on TV and say, "Hey, I used to not have healthcare but now under Obamas' administration, I have healthcare and was able to have my much needed surgery to fix a life-threatening illness. Thank you, Obama
No No No. You don't have the right to comprehensive health care. Seriously.
Before you know it, folks will argue that it's their right to own their own McMansions, and dagnamit, the government ought to pay their mortgages. Oh, wait....
I love how you resort to swearing instead of providing substance to your discussion. Typical liberal. You think you are entitled to something, you can't present facts so you resort to swearing, and you pretty much hate your life so you try to destroy ours by pushing your socialist agenda!!
An anonymous coward conservative who completely misses the point of a blog post, then resorts to name calling as the basis for their argument. Talk about typical.
But seriously, thanks for the comment. I agree that the use of profanity in most posts is gratuitous, ham-fisted and utterly lacking in style or grace. However, in this case, I was actually moved to such explicitness by sympathy for the former President's situation in juxtapositon with the calousness of the Rep. Wamp's remark.
For the record, I do not hate my life. On the contrary I'm doing just fine thanks. In fact, I wouldn't mind at all if I was asked to do the responsible thing and help my neighbors and fellow Americans achieve the same sense of gratitude and freedom from worry enjoyed by the Bush family when facing such a health crisis. If that means putting in a couple of extra hours a week at the office, or cutting back on frivolous spending in my own life to help with the expense, so be it.
Whether you like it or not, you already support such a "socialist" health care system that provides for Barbara Bush, the members of the House and Senate, and countless others. Why should our tax dollars pay for their health care but not for our own or that of our friends and families?
Oh yeah, you wanted facts. Here's a link to some useful data based on this report (6MB, pdf).
Read up, and figure it out. Our overall tax rate in the US is no less than that of citizens in the rest of the industrialized world, and yet America ranks 30th (as of 2005) in terms of life expectancy.
Health care is not a privilege. It is a human right.