This will be a rant in one part and a commentary in another. I thank Isara for posting the diary, and the transcript. I don't like Shatner all that much but at least he questions what limbaugh is saying. I'm sure many of you feel this too, but rage has been building in me for days now, because of the sheer amount of TOTAL FUCKING BULLSHIT coming from the media, pundits, and the heartless scum that call themselves conservatives. limbaugh (and he doesen't deserve a capital L,) is at the forefront. I'm not against dissent or anything, but I lost it when I read the following line:
ISARA'S fantastic diary: http://www.dailykos.com/...
This line is said a little bit down the transcript, after limbaugh compares healthcare to owning a beach house vs. a bungalow. What limbaugh is saying is that if you have money, get healthy, if not "die quickly". Thank you Alan Grayson.)
"No! no! You're assuming there's some morally superior aspect to health care than there is for a house."
This PISSED me off. No please bear with me as I calm myself. Hey "rush": THE WHOLE FUCKING PREMISE FOR HEALTHCARE REFORM IS THAT IT IS COMPLETELY FUCKING DIFFERENT FROM OTHER SHIT LIKE BUYING A HOUSE, YOU IGNORANT PRICK.
There. Much better. What I meant by the above statement is that healthcare, being healthy, and having access to a doctor for yourself and your loved ones should NOT, EVER, depend on how much money you make. That they turned healthcare into a business putting profit infront of LIFE (I thought that conservatives opposing HCR were Pro-life??) instead of a constitutionally guaranteed human right is a fucking travesty.
Just want to remind you all that the natural state of a sentient living organism is not disieased. It is healthy free of affliction, sickness or pain. Whether you can get better, in the 21st century, should not be dtermined by the amount of money you make.
Why would an organism be kept dieseased, dying and suffering just because it can't hand over a few paper slips with numbers and faces printed on them? Makes no sense to me. Just because some asshole sitting on his yacht decides that 100 million is not enough and that he wants 100 and ONE million, shouldnt mean that an elderly woman should have to die a slow painful death as cancer takes over her body, or be denied treatment because she had a case of fucking ACNE for God's sake. Not to mention people getting dropped when they need coverage the most....
Buying a beach house or living in a one bedroom apartment in the suburbs
is dependent on whether you can make monthly payments.
The above is about WHERE you live. Healthcare is about IF you live at ALL, and it is of COURSE much more important morally that housing.
That is all my friends.
and these people call themselves Pro-LIFE? pathetic.