Healthcare rhetoric
I think every person sees their field of study in current events; for my part, I see rhetoric. I see Sarah Palin drawing rifle scopes over lawmakers’ districts; I see John Boehner calling the healthcare bill passage “Armageddon” and people calling Obama the “anti-christ”. I see spitting and name-hurling and an utter misunderstanding of basic philosophical tenets; utter lies distorted beyond logic; there are people advocating harm and destruction, asking others to pick up guns and fight; people calling for anarchy and equating Barack Obama with Richard Reid.
In the end, these distortions, lies, and visual and verbal rhetoric are all inciting violence and revolution — all in the name of what? Giving healthcare to people who need it? Is this really the hill Republicans picked to die on?
That’s what I don’t get either – healthcare! abolishing pre-existing conditions clauses! getting rid of benefit limits! posting calorie content on menus! why are these things traitorous to America? I understand there is a gray area with requiring everyone to have it, but I see the reasoning behind that. Other than that, I’m confused as to what people are so upset about.
This actually seems like a pretty “republican-friendly” compromise to me. No abortion coverage, no single-payer option… And, as dooce pointed out to me, this actually is going to promote buying from the private sector. People who were previously dependent on their state’s expensive high-risk insurance programs because of being denied for pre-existing conditions (hay fever was one of them – ridiculous!) they can now buy private insurance.
Anyway – obviously I agree with you.
Side note: as for seeing our own field of study in current events, that is true. Sarah Palin’s design is a poorly executed imitation of Obama’s.
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