This is the sort of thing I think of every time I hear one of the anti-reform nuts say, "Do you want bureaucrats making decisions about your health care?"
YES.
Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.
'Shindig'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 20, 2009 10:01:40 am PDT #4737 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
quester - Aug 20, 2009 10:02:29 am PDT #4738 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Oy, msbelle, I wish I could do something to help.
You should send the story of this whole episode to all your state and national representatives so they KNOW what private health insurance is really doing!
IOmeN, I think my interview went well yesterday. Everyone was nice and I hope impressed. Too hard to read. Iowa peeps are so nice to me. Keeping fingers crossed.
Gudanov - Aug 20, 2009 10:03:30 am PDT #4739 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I sure hope things go as well as they can msbelle. I'm sorry you are having so much stress on top of stress.
Dana - Aug 20, 2009 10:10:42 am PDT #4740 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I just got a letter from my House Rep that I wrote to about health care. He can't support a system that would "put federal bureaucrats between you and your doctor".
At least this way, I can have the pleasure of tearing up the letter.
Tom Scola - Aug 20, 2009 10:17:50 am PDT #4741 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
He can't support a system that would "put federal bureaucrats between you and your doctor".
What a fucking hypocrite. Where exactly does he get his health insurance from?
-t - Aug 20, 2009 10:18:36 am PDT #4742 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Guess he doesn't need your vote.
Dana - Aug 20, 2009 10:19:23 am PDT #4743 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am tempted to e-mail him again, yell at him for spouting canned talking points at me, and tell him the story of this person I know who's having trouble getting insurance to cover a visit to the ER for her child.
Gudanov - Aug 20, 2009 10:19:43 am PDT #4744 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
He can't support a system that would "put federal bureaucrats between you and your doctor".
It's the disingenuous arguments that really bother me. I doubt your house rep is really so clueless as to think that corporate bureaucrats aren't already involved in health care decisions.
Dana - Aug 20, 2009 10:23:02 am PDT #4745 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
There was also something in the letter about how we should give people the opportunity to get health care through their job if they're not already covered. I suppose if you don't work, for whatever reason, you don't deserve health care.
erikaj - Aug 20, 2009 10:24:08 am PDT #4746 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Mine said "We have the best healthcare in the world." How fifties.