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velvetpage) wrote2009-08-26 07:29 am
velvetpage) wrote2009-08-26 07:29 am
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So tired.
Naturally, I was too worked up to sleep well last night. Figures.
I'm so very tired of the "socialized medicine will force you to see doctors you don't want to see, have procedures you don't choose, and force you to die when the government says you should" rhetoric. (That's almost a direct quote from a friend of a friend, but I've seen it in a dozen other places.) It looks to me like people who are primed to dislike the plans for reform that are being floated are also primed to see options in the plan(s) as requirements. So, elderly people being given access to counselors to plan living wills = health care workers deciding when Granny will die, and circumcision being encouraged (which I haven't seen anywhere, actually - I'm wondering if it's a mishmash of two separate items recently in the news) = babies being taken away from their parents to be circ'ed without parental consent. Oh, the inability to renew plans that don't meet the new minimum standards is in there, too - "We'll all be forced onto the government plan because they won't let us renew the old plans!" It's all misinformation and scare tactics, combined with a healthy dose of, "I'm a conservative and NOTHING that is generally labeled Socialist is going to happen on my watch!"
Time to get this day underway if I'm going to be ready for the meeting by 9:30.
I'm so very tired of the "socialized medicine will force you to see doctors you don't want to see, have procedures you don't choose, and force you to die when the government says you should" rhetoric. (That's almost a direct quote from a friend of a friend, but I've seen it in a dozen other places.) It looks to me like people who are primed to dislike the plans for reform that are being floated are also primed to see options in the plan(s) as requirements. So, elderly people being given access to counselors to plan living wills = health care workers deciding when Granny will die, and circumcision being encouraged (which I haven't seen anywhere, actually - I'm wondering if it's a mishmash of two separate items recently in the news) = babies being taken away from their parents to be circ'ed without parental consent. Oh, the inability to renew plans that don't meet the new minimum standards is in there, too - "We'll all be forced onto the government plan because they won't let us renew the old plans!" It's all misinformation and scare tactics, combined with a healthy dose of, "I'm a conservative and NOTHING that is generally labeled Socialist is going to happen on my watch!"
Time to get this day underway if I'm going to be ready for the meeting by 9:30.
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Really, why does everyone outside the U.S. seem so interested in how the most influential, most heavily-armed, most prone to external intervention, and richest nation in the world conducts it's internal affairs?
It's not like anything decided in Wall Street or Washington D.C. ever meant anything outside of America. Sheesh. Buncha nosy parkers.
Not like their systems would work here, anyway. Haven't they heard of American exceptionalism?
By which I mean "negative exceptionalism." Those fancy Euro systems won't work here because our government sucks and everyone 'cept me is too greedy and will cheat the system. It's because we're all rugged individualists!
People are different over there. Not as individual! More like... ants... or somethin'.
NOSY ants.