Beck compares health insurance regulation to football helmets, which he claims cause reckless behavior and concussions

This guy is actively making himself impossible to mock.

He's wrong. There goes Beck again. We need more government protecting us from cradle to the grave regardless of our behavior.

Okay... let's follow Glenda's "logic" here.

Safety equipment, (translation: regulations) cause recklessness.
Therefore, we would be better off without safety equipment (regulations).

If that principle holds true, would we not be a more "moral" society without religion?

Makes sense to me.

Oh, one more thing. Did they have fewer concussions in football before they started wearing helmets?

hahahahaha you are so funny

Where's the chalkboard?? I need one to figure out how he came up with insurance regulation as bad and football helmets are bad?? Both protect the consumer from bad things happening but hey, if Glenn gets a concussion and it's because he's not wearing a helmet that's just dumb. It's also dumb to think that if we had no insurance regulation that the industry would "police" themselves. Didn't we try that already with the financial industry and we ended up going into a depression (I know most don't like the D word but that's what it truly was)? The insurance industry NEEDS regulation. I know, I work in the industry and I would say that rates would be 10 times higher if they could get away with it!

Apples to oranges.

1. Rugby is not played in the same manner that American football is played.
2. Just because one plays rugby, that does not mean that the injuries are not there. There are still concussions in rugby.
3. Asked before, but...if you removed all of the pads and played American football without protection, how many injuries do you think there would be?

Is Beck indicating that we not have any health care at all?

Just when I think this moron couldn't be any more stupid, he outdoes himself again.

Becky is comparing two very different sports with different tactics and styles of play. Rugby players don't experience fewer head injuries because they "play smarter," it's because their game is different.

Concussions typically happen to quarterbacks when they are standing relatively still and are suddenly and brutally hit by a defensive back making a tackle. THIS DOES NOT OCCUR IN RUGBY. Helmet or not, when the human head goes from 0 to 60 in a fraction of a second by blunt force, a concussion is likely because not even a helmet can keep the brain from bouncing around inside the skull.

And it may be news to Becky, but rugby players can and do wear helmets to, among other things, keep their skulls from getting pierced by shoe cleats.

Beck compares health insurance regulation to football helmets, which he claims cause reckless behavior and concussions

I think football players that had brain injuries would not appreciate your assumption Becky.

Australian Rule Football is indeed a rugged game, no helments or pads a Mans Game. In A.R.Football it is not the goal to hurt the other team members. In the Game of American Football to often the Goal is to cause Harm on the way to Scoring 6 points. Thoose the need for protection that are not enough.
Go Beck,rah rah rah for again knowing Facts!

Glenda: I heard you blabber about this on the radio, and just like on the radio, you make yourself sound like a fool when you make these silly arguments. It's hard to believe that anyone with an 8th grade education could take you seriously. If you"re any indication of how America thinks, we"re in bigger trouble than I thought.

Maybe Beck played too much football without a helmet.

I guess we'd better scrap all our health care, all our police and fire departments, since they're really doing more harm than good. IF only we were free of those burdens, we could happily stay in our homes, never venturing out into the world, never sharing our germs, and certainly not lighting any matches. Oh what a blissful, peace that would be.

Damn those public safety programs for making us so reckless!

Glenn Beck is absolutely right! When I owned my first car, a 1964 Volksgwagen Beetle, it had no seat belts, and I drove very, very carefully.

My second car was a 1974 Super Beetle. It had seat belts, and I started driving much faster, especially in the rain.

Now I drive a car with a modern restraint system AND air bags- so I drive 90 MPH through blizzards, and never use my headlights no matter how dark it is. I drove MUCH more safely when my car didn't have seat belts.

I hope to own a Hummer soon, so I can start driving blindfolded with impunity.

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this fool's logic is becoming harder and harder to understand. sometimes you just laugh at what he says or notice that he doesnt know what hes talking about, but in this case, the connection just makes no damn sense.

he thinks if we all get healthcare, we will be more reckless. using the logic he has left... if our lives are insured, we are more likely to drive off of a cliff just to see what happens? wouldnt it be better to have insurance so just incase we do get reckless, we have something that insures us? i guess hes expecting us to not have insurance, period. just drive around in our cars and go through life without something to insure our lives. yeah, great idea, glenn. whats next? playing hockey without a stick?

Heck of a plan Gwenn.Oh,once again,what was your plan?That's right,rush headlong with insurance giants toward the goal of unlimited control of corporate giants.You are right soze,this guy needs spit cups at both lower ends of his mouth.Then he will become level headed.

Please excuse me for making this a race issue. The statement he is trying to make he is poor people of color or just poor people in general are better off being very careful and not having to be insured. If they have a safety net when it comes to health they might get reckless and start thinking they have a chance to have an ambitious life. Mean while rich insured people can go around endangering poor people and everyone else because they have earned the right through their money.

It just makes no sense at all. What are you supossed t do if you have a condition from birth hat will affect you in later life. I guess someone with lupus or the potential of having lupus should just be careful their whole life. Imagine the burden of a potential disease and the potential cost.

Be cautious = be afraid when it come to Beck.

Does he understand that the reason why we were in the mess that we were in is because the government stayed out of the financial sector until it screwed up so badly that it had to be saved?

I am an Australian. A few points:
As others have pointed out Aust Rules Football is not rugby... it's nothing like rugby!
In both Aust Rules Football and Rugby there are multiple concussions per week and in Rugby specifically neck injuries are very common.
But there are rules about head high contact (Glenn might recognise these Gov't style regulations!) and injuries are declining both at professional and amateur levels. Albeit head injuries still occur at least as often as they would in the NFL.
So protective gear or rules?... take your pick, you're still a chance of getting hurt.
On a separate point. Australia has a mixed public/private health system. We have Gov't funded/subsidised primary care along with incentives to take out private insurance for allied health care and to fast track access to elective procedures. The system works well! It is not bankrupting our country, all Aust have access to necessary primary care at a relatively low cost and we have a vibrant private sector.
Glenn's scare campaign is ill-informed and childish.

I'm confused. I thought America was supposed to be all about taking risks.

So, is Beck going to get quit his health insurance plan so he can trim down a bit?

I cannot believe this guy.
How can people believe anything that this idiot is saying?

False analogy. Football is an ASSUMPTION of risk. Nobody is forcing you to play football. But EVERYONE will need healthcare at sometime in our lives.

So take your worthless sports analogy and stuff it straight up your girl friend's wild cat. That's a type of new offensive alignment in the NFL. Glenn knows all about the NFL, but nothing about healthcare, as we can all plainly see.

Randy

Beck is echoing von Mises.
http://radamisto.blogspot.com/2009/10/twisted-conservative-mind-circa-1932.html

We need to get rid of safety belts and airbags too. They just encourage reckless driving.

Why do I have a mental image of Glenn sitting around his office, thinking, "Okay, how far can I go and keep these lemmings nodding vacantly and agreeing with me? Hmmmm ... football helmets are bad. If I can get these morons to agree with THAT, I need to seriously think about running for office, 'cause there is NOTHING these morons won't buy."

To let insurance companies do what they want is reckless behavior.

So, football players shouldn't wear helmets?