A funny thing happens when I attempt to reply to post comments on
The Attack Machine.....I can't. Guess I've been
banned from there too. Bummer. It's a good thing I have my own blog so I can reply to Brian's
concerns about the implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act.
Psst Brian! You are welcome to continue the discussion here at RedEye's front page! All points of view are welcome here. Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism!
Brian :"It’s not that we have problem with people having health care, but it is the quality of health care that they receive."
RedEye: Yeah, right.
B: "Problem is that through this system, the people that are getting what you call access to health care aren’t paying for it, the government is and through the government, the taxpayers are paying for it. And those that aren’t paying will receive a level of care that they paid for."
R: Problem is the people that are getting what I call access to health care CAN'T pay for it. We the people (the government) CAN pay for it, and we should, because that's the American Way. Health Care shouldn't be available only to those who can pay for it.
B: " If Medicare/Medicaid were equal to private insurance, there would be no need for supplemental plans."
R: Bull Poop. If we had Medicare/Medicaid for all there would be no need for supplemental plans. :)
B: " Granted, your employer might cover you or they might not. They might look at the costs and decide that paying the fine is cheaper then providing health insurance."
R: Keys word MIGHT NOT. If they decide paying the fine is cheaper than providing health insurance that's on them. We (the government) will use the fine money to provide health insurance for their employees.
B: I am not against affordable health care, but regulations and bureaucracies are not going to provide it."
R: Says who? The same people who want regulations and bureaucracies to provide and administer a government issued Voter ID card? :)
B: "Telling insurance companies that they must spend 80% of premiums on health care might just encourage them to start paying more to doctors if they want a raise."
R: Huh? I don't hear Doctors complaining about needing a raise.
B: "'One more thing that just occurred to me. The Affordable Health Care Act says that insurance companies cannot deny someone coverage for preexisting conditions, but doesn’t keep insurance companies from jacking up their rates if somebody does have a preexisting condition(s)."
R: On this we can agree, insurance probably will jack up their premiums, which makes it a win, win for them and for the people who don't have access to health insurance.
B: "BTW, who do you think is going to pay for the subsidies and those added to Medicare/Medicaid?"
R: The same people who pay for all war all the time.
The same people who pay for NASA.
We the people are going to pay for the subsidies added to Medicare/Medicaid.
God Bless America!
July 4th Must Reads
What, to Black Americans, is the 4th of July
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
Remember Thomas Jefferson's Betrayal
So, the ideal of equality Jefferson proclaimed, he also betrayed. He got it right when he wrote about "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" as the core of our human aspirations. But he lived it wrong, denying to others the rights he claimed for himself. And that's how Jefferson came to embody the oldest and longest war of all - the war between the self and the truth, between what we know and how we live.
Obama's not the first black President, he is the first President who is black.
Here’s the reality that must be clearly understood. President Obama is not the first Black President; he’s the first President who is Black. A Black President would have come into office with a “Black Agenda.” If he were the first Black President he would be using his bully pulpit to champion legislation targeting unemployment in urban areas, poverty, income disparity, and other issues. This in no way should be interpreted to challenge his “Blackness.” It’s about the agenda not the man.
What's that you say?
Obama has a white voter problem. I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Not.
The 4th of July Indoctrination, Oppression, and Hypocrisy
Message to
jobsanger, getting a warning that malware is attached to your blog and that you may have been hacked when I attempt to click on your blog.
