tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241445666161004335.post7615706919746190514..comments2024-01-20T15:51:35.268-06:00Comments on And So it Goes in Shreveport: Repeal and ReplacePat Austin Beckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05767059128758168960noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241445666161004335.post-14475402942886197412011-01-08T00:03:04.491-06:002011-01-08T00:03:04.491-06:00How nice of you to determine who gets to keep what...How nice of you to determine who gets to keep what, landman!<br /><br />That in a nutshell embodies the mindset of 0bamacare proponents: <i>'They have something I don't, therefore, I'm entitled to it. Everything they say is a fraud or a lie. They are in the grasp of powerful (and sinister) interests, and everything they say is a lie influenced by them. They are either dupes or consciously evil in their opposition to me. The government will do a much better job than the private sector, as long as the people I support are in office and they have a little more power.'</i><br /><br />Do I have that right? I mean, that doesn't neccesarily have to apply to 0bamacare, either....that tends to be the uniform outlook on more or less any topic given the leanings of the typical 0bama supporter.Fenway_Nationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03429660763096017228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8241445666161004335.post-49991827363746235542011-01-05T13:26:56.435-06:002011-01-05T13:26:56.435-06:00Be honest with yourself. You want to keep what yo...Be honest with yourself. You want to keep what you have, even if it means self-employed folks like me cannot procure it or afford it ourselves. Being a teacher, you are likely 1) getting your health insurance subsidized by the government or 2) getting it paid by a private school because the public schools set the bar for your employer. The self-employed cannot usually muster such dithyrambic advocacy of the status quo.<br /><br />Despite private insurers’ well-documented excesses, inefficiencies, and chicanery, those with employer-provided insurance desperately defend them. The insured enjoy the two-tiered system wherein top shelf healthcare is rationed to them and away from others. They rail against “socialized medicine” and anything resembling parity. They create strawmen (e.g. “death panels” and other blood-sucking government bureaucrats), hyperbole/slippery slopes/non-sequiturs (“they gonna run the insurers out of business and send all the doctors into bankruptcy”), faulty parallelism (likening Obamacare to affordable housing (huh?)). <br /><br />The deception is necessary. Otherwise, conservatives are left with their naked message: “economic might makes right.” “We’re all in this together” is antithetical to their mores. The rest of us can simply eat cake.Landman of the Apocalypsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11398585841170348856noreply@blogger.com