When asked for their comments on Rush Limbaugh's calling Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute, both Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann demanded that they receive apologies from everyone on the left because they have been "insulted" numerous times. Well, perhaps, but although calling politicians such as Palin and Bachmann stupid may not be the height of savoir-faire, it does not translate into insulting all women. In fact, it increasingly appears that this is not an insult so much as an appellation.
On the other hand,to say that a woman who expects to receive contraception as part of her health care package is a slut or prostitute is in essence insulting almost all women, since about 98 percent of women in this country use contraception at one time or another. And, in fact, most women who are even somewhat well off usually receive contraception as part of their health care package. In truth, the women who do not are those who are most in need of it because they can least afford a child, usually having little means of supporting one.
The religious issue is a serious one mainly for those who believe that their religion is the only true religion and that there should be no separation of Church and State. No one is ever forced to use birth control. Catholic or evangelical employers do not go against conscience because an employee uses contraception. They should look to their own families, and not everyone else's. They in fact know that is so, but they are looking for ways to skimp on medical insurance. Conscience is always a good line. Even if almost every Catholic woman in this country uses contraception. Santorum and Romney are unlike most people in this country, not only for their large families, but because they can afford them.
Those who talk of not wanting “their money” to go toward supplying a woman with contraception, well I have news for you. Your money does not pay for it. The money comes from those who paid for the individual insurance plans (usually the employer or employee) or as now promised, the pharmaceutical companies themselves when necessary. In addition, your money, my money, everyone’s money always goes toward something we don’t like. That’s called democracy.
One final comment I must make, and that is about Rush Limbaugh’s most egregious comment about the “what are you going to give us for our money?” gambit and demanding that “we should be supplied with film showing what we’re getting for our money.” In other words, the notion of producing sex tapes and receiving them from a woman who receives birth control. Truly, that must the most disgusting thing he said, and I am surprised at everyone shying away from it. Why is this pig still on the air? Don’t forget that he only apologized for using “those two words.”
Showing posts with label health care. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Be Sure You Know What You Stand For
I’ve been watching town hall meetings on television for days, and was particularly dismayed by a meeting in Pennsylvania that was crammed with overwrought constituents venting highly charged rhetoric. One young woman begged the senator to return the nation to the Constitution because she didn’t want this country to become another Russia, and a middle-aged gentleman shrieked about socialism and having a dictator. The crowd seemed to accept that we had already become a socialist nation with Obama as our dictator! Unbelievable! Where do they get this stuff from?
What have these people been drinking? Or better, what radio programs have they been listening to? Which TV ads have they been fed to brainwash them into thinking healthcare reform is the devil?
Suddenly we have town hall meetings all over the country full of patriotic people who are terrified because we have overnight become “socialist” and no longer adhere to the Constitution. Yes, these people populating town halls appear quite prepared to accept the notion that Barack Obama, who has returned the Constitution to us and descried torture and abuse, is our dictator.
Where were all these patriots when George W. Bush threw away our Constitution, and his administration took us into an era of torture of prisoners and eavesdropping on American citizens? And don’t forget firing federal attorneys who were not politically acceptable, or outing a CIA operative to punish her husband who disagreed with policy. Or better yet dragging us into a preemptive war with lies. Not a peep out of these people.
Have any of these people stopped to think? Even for a moment? Hey, people, who do you think is paying for these ads? And what do they have to gain by filling you with such vitriol? If we do not have healthcare reform, we all go down. Except for health insurance companies. It’s as simple as that.
Obama will not go down. Our country will go down, because our economy cannot sustain the American way of healthcare with our greedy insurance companies. We are that desperate for restructuring. Blocking health care reform will plague us. Since the cost of healthcare takes up too large a part of our economy, our expenditure for it will continue to hold down the growth and resurgence of the economy. It does not allow us to compete with the rest of the civilized world who have discovered that they need not pay as much as we do for healthcare and yet enjoy better health than we! There is certainly something wrong here! We must develop a wellness model of medical care, as most of our major health issues are culturally driven, and can thus be reversed with education.
Meanwhile these people shriek about losing their choices. Isn’t it rather ironic that many fear government standing between them and their doctors when in fact the insurance company is already there? And for a lot more money every year too. And that price continues to escalate at wild rates, and yet I heard many people voicing the idea that a public government option would take away their right to choose their own doctor, deny them treatment and even have death panels and other horrible things which, by the way, if you stop to think about it, the insurance companies have themselves been promulgating for years!
It is the public option that would stand in the way of these companies perpetuating these practices of denying insurance to people with catastrophic illness, preexisting conditions and well -- you get the picture. I hope.
As for the price tag, healthcare reform will in the long run not only rally the economy, but also bring down the deficit. Yes, it can.
What have these people been drinking? Or better, what radio programs have they been listening to? Which TV ads have they been fed to brainwash them into thinking healthcare reform is the devil?
Suddenly we have town hall meetings all over the country full of patriotic people who are terrified because we have overnight become “socialist” and no longer adhere to the Constitution. Yes, these people populating town halls appear quite prepared to accept the notion that Barack Obama, who has returned the Constitution to us and descried torture and abuse, is our dictator.
Where were all these patriots when George W. Bush threw away our Constitution, and his administration took us into an era of torture of prisoners and eavesdropping on American citizens? And don’t forget firing federal attorneys who were not politically acceptable, or outing a CIA operative to punish her husband who disagreed with policy. Or better yet dragging us into a preemptive war with lies. Not a peep out of these people.
Have any of these people stopped to think? Even for a moment? Hey, people, who do you think is paying for these ads? And what do they have to gain by filling you with such vitriol? If we do not have healthcare reform, we all go down. Except for health insurance companies. It’s as simple as that.
Obama will not go down. Our country will go down, because our economy cannot sustain the American way of healthcare with our greedy insurance companies. We are that desperate for restructuring. Blocking health care reform will plague us. Since the cost of healthcare takes up too large a part of our economy, our expenditure for it will continue to hold down the growth and resurgence of the economy. It does not allow us to compete with the rest of the civilized world who have discovered that they need not pay as much as we do for healthcare and yet enjoy better health than we! There is certainly something wrong here! We must develop a wellness model of medical care, as most of our major health issues are culturally driven, and can thus be reversed with education.
Meanwhile these people shriek about losing their choices. Isn’t it rather ironic that many fear government standing between them and their doctors when in fact the insurance company is already there? And for a lot more money every year too. And that price continues to escalate at wild rates, and yet I heard many people voicing the idea that a public government option would take away their right to choose their own doctor, deny them treatment and even have death panels and other horrible things which, by the way, if you stop to think about it, the insurance companies have themselves been promulgating for years!
It is the public option that would stand in the way of these companies perpetuating these practices of denying insurance to people with catastrophic illness, preexisting conditions and well -- you get the picture. I hope.
As for the price tag, healthcare reform will in the long run not only rally the economy, but also bring down the deficit. Yes, it can.
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