Why I hate conservatives.
Published by Mike Stark April 24th, 2007 in UncategorizedI don’t often get pissed off. I think the reason I’ve had the success I’ve had confronting wingnuts is that I simply don’t get ruffled by their dishonest idiocy. But this time was different.
This loathsome woman, Gracie-Marie Turner, was on the Bohannon Show spinning “free-market” solutions to the national health care crisis. When I tuned in she was telling Bohannon about the horrible health care plans in states that provide insurance to their citizens. Massachusetts, for example, mandates that hair restoration be covered! Bohannon called the idea ridiculous, and I could almost hear the steam coming out of his national audience’s ears…
It was billowing out of mine too, but for a different reason.
You see, Massachusetts mandates hair replacement regimes for kids and women that survive cancer. This woman was making her political bones at the expense of bald little kids… innocent and sick… suffering…
This loathsome, hateful, despicable woman implied that fat old bald men were merrily going to the hospital for free hair plugs…
This has got to be one of the most disgusting people I’ve ever spoken to.
And listen to her response: when I callher out for her dishonesty (and my mic is muted) she pivots to say that these health care policies simply cover too much; that states shouldn’t mandate this coverage because it drives up costs for everybody.
Well…
Not everyone breaks their leg… Not everyone has their appendix burst or gets osteoporosis… Maybe we shouldn’t mandate coverage of any of that stuff either… Instead, we’ll have these little menus where we can click on or off options we do or don’t want. I’m young, so I’m not worried about heart disease - I won’t check that box. I think it’s safe to assume that the majority of people similarly situated would make the same choice. So, in the end, what we’d end up with is only people likely to suffer heart disease selecting coverage… And their premiums would reflect their risk - men over 40 would pay through the teeth for coverage.
There was just nothing honest about this woman.
She’s testifying tomorrow before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. This is their membership. If you have any way of getting this info to anyone on the Committee, it’d be great to hear one of our Congressman make this woman answer the question Bohannon protected her from: Should little kids that survive cancer be left to their own devices when it comes to hair restoration? Why is it such a bad thing for Mass. to mandate insurance cover this?
Henry A. Waxman, CA
Edolphus Towns, NY
Bart Gordon, TN
Anna Eshoo, CA
Gene Green, TX, Vice Chair
Diana DeGette, CO
Lois Capps, CA
Tom Allen, ME
Tammy Baldwin, WI
Eliot L. Engel, NY
Jan Schakowsky, IL
Hilda L. Solis, CA
Mike Ross, AR
Darlene Hooley, OR
Anthony D. Weiner, NY
Jim Matheson, UT
Nathan Deal, GA, Ranking Member
Ralph M. Hall, TX
Barbara Cubin, WY
Heather Wilson, NM
John B. Shadegg, AZ
Steve Buyer, IN
Joseph R. Pitts, PA
Mike Ferguson, NJ
Mike Rogers, MI
Sue Myrick, NC
John Sullivan, OK
Tim Murphy, PA
Michael C. Burgess, TX
Marsha Blackburn, TN
Joe Barton, TX (Ex Officio)
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So a grant for low income workers who don’t have health insurance is okay? I wonder how she feels about single payer/universal state-sponsored health insurance? I don’t know how you can listen to this stuff. It makes me sick. Glad you can call in and inject some reality into this bizarro world.
Mike,
I think you have a really good point about the checkbox system. I just finished my first year tort law class and we learned about different systems to compensate for say car accidents. The point of an insurance should be to spread risk around. I might not need hair transplant but I might need some kind of eye surgery. I can’t believe we still don’t have universal health care. There might be some procedures where the costs far outweight the benefits, but this idea of making health care a trip to the cafeteria makes absolutely no sense.
It reminds me of people putting 100% of their 401k in their company stock. Insurance schemes and security nets should be mandated and well designed because in the long run, even free markets types should recognize that a member of society that becomes unproductive is a burden to the rest of us. If they can’t get around to help others for humanitarian reasons, they should at least do it for selfish reasons.
Keep up the good work.
The other point to make is how we all know how well insurance companies work already. I mean, just take a look at all those Katrina claims being denied….water damage vs hurricane damage.
Thanks for calling her Mike.
Did she mention moral hazard? Probably. Adverse Selection and Death Spiral? Unlikely.
Isn’t it nice how she sounds so sweetly mendacious? I noticed that Bohannon didn’t call her on it when she admitted she knew of no cases of this insurance covering male pattern baldness. I haven’t listened to him in many, many years. I don’t think I’ve heard him since he used to fill in for Larry King on his radio show. Back then, he was actually good.