Limbaugh: Government-run "Statist Farm" is "where you will be put out to pasture once you're 70 years old and in bad health"
August 03, 2009 1:55 pm ET
From the August 3 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Rush is just mad since he's getting old.
It's because they're allowing crap like this to float around uncorrected. I also blame the Democrats for failing to counter this bullsh*t barrage. You'd think that after 20 years of being hammered by Porky's lies, they'd have figured it out by now.
The BS on health care, and the related attempts to frighten old people, brings to mind another recent propaganda campaign.
There was a proposal (since canned, I believe) to install thermostats in new homes that would be limited at peak usage times by the utility companies (or "the government" according to the wingnuts). The idea was to avoid the surges that tended to knock the power grid out. It was, at it's core, a safety measure, aimed at preventing the blackouts during heat waves that sometimes resulted in the death of the sick or elderly.
Of course, the rightys were able to frame it as prohibiting the use of air conditioning, with no concern for the sick or elderly who might die if the law went into effect.
Apparently under Rush's nightmare scenario, I will actually reach 70, even in bad health. That ain't such a bad deal, considering how badly I'll get screwed if I get sick before then under our current system. 70 years of guarenteed health care? Sign me up!!!
(You people blocking health care reform are sofa king stupid!)
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html
Nice try, comrade garcut.
But it's completely irrelevent. We all already know that our health care resources are among the bet in the world. That is exactly why our current system is so assinine! We have all these resources, and yet we still can't bring ourselves to think of top notch health care as an RIGHT - and one we should ALL be happy to pay our share for, and insure that EVERYONE - not 80%, not 90% not 99.9% buy EVERYONE has access to this care.
If they're lacking resource in Germany that's irrelevant. I'm not trying to fix health care problems in Germany. Who knows? Maybe a patch-work quilt of private plans and gov't band-aids would HELP Germany. I doubt it, but I wouldn't know: I haven't studied the German health care system. What I DO know is all about the uncosionable things that we let happen - by design, not exception - to 10's of 1000's of people every day in THIS COUNTRY. And there's just no reason for it. Because as your article points out: WE HAVE NO SHORTAGE OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES!!! We just administer them in a way that tunrs people away uneccessarily, manages costs in the leats efficient manner possible, profits by denying care and coverage to anyone they can, and bankrupts 10's of 1000's of families who actually HAVE COVERAGE.
The system sux, and nothing in that article changes that fact.