Oh, man, look at this lame stuff from Joe Wilson:
Joe heads home to continue his focus on the families of South Carolina’s 2nd Congressional district and over 100 supporters turn out to walk with him in the Lexington DooDah parade. In this short video, Joe thanks his supporters for standing with him in his fight against government run health care.
Joe’s fight has really angered the big government liberals who are working to push their health care plan through Congress. They are storming the district and targeting Joe in next year’s election.
But Joe won’t back down.
No, Joe, it’s not your “fight” that’s got them ticked off. It’s your childish outburst, and your subsequent decision to cash in on it. At least, that’s what has the rest of us disgusted; I can’t speak for these “big government liberals” that are your straw men.
Oh, by the way, Joe doesn’t thank people for supporting him on health care in the short video — at least, not specifically. What he does is celebrate the common decency and patriotism of the folks in the heart of his district. And maybe it’s a good thing for Joe to get in touch with those qualities instead of having his head turned, the way he has for the past week or so, by the kinds of spiteful extremists who want to lionize him for doing something that he was initially, and appropriately, ashamed of.
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Run, Brad. Get rid of this jaboney!
Was he initially even ashamed of it? Hard to tell any more.
For convenience sake run as a republican. That’s the party you most nearly match, and that’s the party most desperately in need of a sane candidate.
Now that Obama has been caught on tape telling Latino groups that he DOES want to cover illegal aliens with free medical care, and does want to grant instant citizenship to them, in order to create a permanent Democrat majority of tax eaters…
….what is the appropriate time and place to call him out for lying to Congress and America?
You know something I’m REALLY tired of? People whose standard of whether a national health plan is good or bad is whether some poor economic refugee gets free health care — which, of course, they get now, and which we all pay for in the least efficient, most expensive manner, through the ER.
Apparently to these folks — and they range from Joe “You Lie” Wilson to Lee “Obama’s an Alien” Muller — a national health plan could be perfect, could meet all of their exacting conditions, could cover everyone without “growing gummint” or whatever, but if it covers anyone who failed to do the proper paperwork before making a long, hard trip to come here and work in a chicken processing plant, then it’s a bad plan, and we need to deny it to the 300-million-plus people who are here legally as well.
Is that the case? Have I got it right? I mean, it’s something I could not care less about, but since they insist that we spend time thinking about this one off-point detail, I want to make sure I’m understanding what it is that they want…
B-b-but they took er jobs! Them illegals is no good for nothin’.
> but if it covers anyone who failed
> to do the proper paperwork
Is that really how you view illegal immigration? As a paperwork issue?
How about crossing the border without even attempting to follow the proper procedure?
How about identity theft?
How about driving without insurance?
How about failing to pay income taxes?
You can’t seriously think that millions of people crossing the border illegally and working for below minimum wage is just a paperwork issue.
If you want illegals to get healthcare, get the Catholic church or United Way to pay for it. It’s charity.
Illegals GET HEALTH CARE NOW! Emergency rooms treat ALL HUMAN BEINGS. Illegals are human beings. It’s awfully expensive to treat folks in the emergency rooms, but we do it, and we all pay for it.
Joe Wilson and his family are all on TRICARE and think it’s great, so they obviously love government-run healthcare.
Illegal aliens get free medical care now because traitors legalized it for them. That can be undone just as easily.
One piece of intellectual dishonesty I really despise is when those who created a social problem try to use that problem as an excuse for their next proposal to mess things up worse. “We gave free medical care to illegal aliens, so now we have to socialize medicine for everyone.” Like Hell we do.
Whatever happened to the oath lawyers and politicians take to uphold and protect the Constitution?
TRICARE is private insurance. There are three TRICARE regions. Blue-Cross of SC used to have the contract to run all of them. Now, the three regions are served by serveral other insurance companies.
So actually, TRICARE is a model of how private insurance could be permitted to offer policies across state lines.
Likewise, Medicare Supplemental Insurance is offered across state lines by more than five national insurance companies. Another model for market solutions that the socialists do not want to discuss.
“Illegal aliens get free medical care now because traitors legalized it for them.”
Lee, quess ole Addison G Wilson is a traitor since he voted for the 2003 Medicare Act that provides hospitals $250 million a year for care of illegal aliens.
And I refuse to give money to Joe Wilson until he starts voting to reduce the size of Medicare.
Joe Wilson and other Republicans had a boom economy in 2003, could have balanced the budget, but they tried to outdo the Democrats on welfare spending, thinking it would “take away the issues”.
Now the Democrats are running deficits 4 TIMES as large as the worst ones under GOP control.
Lee,
Tricare is not private insurance. Tricare is run by U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System. BlueCross BlueShield SC is just a subcontractor to the contractors that administer two of the regions. All BlueCross SC does is run claims data through their mainframe. All rules and regulations regarding benefits, etc. come straight from the DOD. Last I checked that’s still the government.
BlueCross also does the same sort of contract work for Medicare. If any of the current plans in congress go through it’ll just be more contracts they can bid on.
I was a consultant to Blue Cross, under contract to the Pentagon, to improve quality and speed of payment to doctors and patients under Tricare. My counterpart was a US Marine Corps officer. Blue Cross and others companies BID on the contracts, just like Lockheed and Boeing compete for contracts to build airplanes.
What is your experience with Tricare or any other insurance?
And you avoided my second example of Supplemental Insurance for Medicare.
All the Democrat plans will bankrupt private insurance, because the
A. mandate coverage for all sorts of current high-risk lifestyles and genetic histories.
B. mandate coverage of pre-existing conditions
C. prohibit re-evaluation and dropping policyholders for changes in condition outside the contract.
D. cap premium increases, so the companies cannot be conpensated for A, B, and C.
If the insurance companies do stay in business, it will mean that insurance will COST MORE for everyone.