Next up in front of the firing squad is political ignorance. People like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Lou Dobbs prey on those who don't compare sides before deciding who's not so full of shit. Let's look at the healthcare reform bill as one example.
Anyone who truly believes illegal immigrants can get free healthcare through Medicaid or any public option has obviously never read the laws/bill. If a person is here illegally, they only end up with benefits if they buy someone else's social security number... usually from an American who stole the ID's of other Americans.
OMG... remember THIS doozy? "Keep your government hands off my Medicare." Yeah, shouted at a town hall meeting last Summer in South Carolina. He even refused to listen when the rare Republican Rep who actually wasn't full of caca tried to explain that Medicare is already run by the government... and always has been. That ignorant fool at the meeting was hilariously WRONG... but the hilarity faded as I- and many others- realized a large portion of the country honestly thinks that way. Ugh.
Also, I challenge those who believe the government would "ration" healthcare to reallllly read the texts. Does it say anything about "rationing," or does it talk of "medical necessity?" Hmm... because INSURANCE COMPANIES have used "medical necessity" as a way to determine whether they'll pay a claim for YEARS now. If you go in for an MRI of your shoulder, your PRIVATE insurance will not pay if your radiologist's billing office asks for payment with the diagnosis code of knee pain. So, if you don't have a diagnosed problem with that shoulder, or if that billing office just codes it with a wrong number on your insurance claim (which happens OFTEN), then insurance won't pay. That's exactly what Medicare and Medicaid have also done for years, and that's what this "rationing" is really referring to.
See, I'm not debating necessarily the pros and cons of the bills floating about Congress. Nope, this is purely about making decisions based on what some fool on TV gets paid by insurance companies to say. So... READ before you believe some crazy caca on Fox News or elsewhere, or risk screwing up this country's progress more due to collective ignorance.
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