“Be the Kidney You Want to Have in Your Lower Back”-or Create Your Own Public Option Instead!

Are you sick and tired of just sitting back as the Democrats intentionally sabotage any possibility that you might be able to afford health care one day?

I’m not just talking about the “blue dog” democrats. I’m referring to the whole putrid lot of them, including that wild-eyed crazy “radical” Nancy Pelosi, who promised a fellow Democrat that she would allow the House to vote on his amendment for a single-payer system… and then weaseled out of it at the last minute. I’m talking about the Dali Obama, who ordered George Miller, chairperson of the House Committee on Education and Labor, to oppose an amendment by Kucinich that would have allowed individual states to easily create state-level single-payer health care systems should they chose to do so. Mr. Miller was a good dog and obeyed our War Criminal-in-Chief’s orders, and the amendment went down in flames. I’m talking about Obama, who likely ordered Pelosi to keep the same amendment from ever getting back into the bill.

Or maybe you are just sick. I mean literally sick. “Sick” as in you need to go to the nephrologist right fucking now for that expensive dialysis treatment you’ve been putting off to pay for luxuries like canned peas and rent. Have you been unable to afford dialysis for so long that people have started calling you Frosty the Yellow Snowman because of that 4 inch layer of Uremic Frost covering your whole body?

I can only imagine how pissed (no pun intended) you must be! After all, you did exactly what you thought was right.  On November 4, 2008 you stumbled half dead into that voting booth, cast your vote for Hope and Change, and promptly collapsed into a yellow heap right there on the floor of your local precinct.

As the paramedics carried you away–ignoring your desperate pleas for them to “get the fuck away from me you motherfucking bastards I can’t afford a goddamn ambulance ride and another ER bill because I’m almost out of canned peas you little bitches, your father sucks cocks in hell“–you slowly started to lose consciousness with visions of affordable dialysis dancing in your head.  “Everything is going to be fine now because Change is coming,” you thought right before you fell into a coma that lasted three months.

After waking up in an alley somewhere in Cleveland to the odd sensation of a rat gnawing on your earlobe–the hospital dumped you there after 2 days once they discovered you had no insurance–you were feeling mighty low. You pulled what you hoped was a hospital needle out of your right hand and began aimlessly wandering the streets, trying to figure out what city they had dumped you in this time, and that’s when you saw it!

A page from a discarded newspaper was doing pirouettes in the wind, inviting you to join it in its eternal dance of agonizing joy–or at least stare at it for a few hours with a deranged look of awe and wonder on your face while overwhelmed by the raw cascading  emotions and the inchoate beauty of Am…

“I hated that fucking movie,” you quipped as you snatched the piece of enchanted trash out of the air while it was in the midst of an aerial plie 2 feet in front of your face.

“Holy shit! Obama won! Obama is the President of the United Fucking States!!” You started reading through the article–something about a Troubled Assets Relief Program, whatever that was.

“Obama started some sort of public relief program already? FDR, eat your fucking heart out!” You continued skimming through the article:

“…aww, those poor kids haven’t gotten their puppy yet….mmm hmmm….yep…ok…..Rick Warren, really?….mmm hmmm…yup….ok…..’Hope’….mmm hmmmm…yep…’Be the change you want to see…'”

The power of that phrase almost knocked you over. Had wiser words ever fell from the lips of a mortal man? At that moment, you decided to make a change.

“I’m start-ing with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to chaaaange his ways…” you sang as you skipped down the abandoned streets in search of the nearest Greyhound station, clasping what remained of the tattered hospital gown  (which they generously allowed you to keep) to prevent the wind from exposing your yellow ass to the residents of the city you didn’t know was Cleveland. 

Fast forward to today…

You’re dead.  It turns out that Hoping™ for dialysis doesn’t work as well as actually getting dialysis.  I suppose you could have tried being the kidney you wanted to have, but I suspect that would have been about as effective as Hope™therapy.

The only thing Obama ever did that actually affected you while you were alive was when he stole what little money you had in your 401K and gave it to Goldman Sachs.  Even now as your corpse decays, Obama and his fellow DemocRats are hardly even pretending to fight  for some joke of a “public option”.  According to an earlier report by Certainly Not News,

The Democratic leadership “pushed as hard as they could” for the robust option but couldn’t win majority support for it, said liberal New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler.There is no point crying over spilt milk….”

The House bill differs from legislation now being considered by the Senate in a number of critical ways. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, also favors a public option but would allow individual states to opt out of the plan. Reid would allow for the creation of nonprofit health care cooperatives; the House bill does not include such a measure….

 

Individuals under the $829 billion Senate Finance Committee plan would be required to purchase health insurance coverage or face a fine of up to $750. The House bill imposes a more stringent fine of up to 2.5 percent of an individual’s income. Both versions include a hardship exemption for poorer Americans.

Did everyone get that?  Liberal NY Representative Nadler’s concern about people suffering and dying from a lack of health care is on par with his concern over “spilt milk”.  Remember, this is coming from a liberal member of the “party of the people”.

Now, I am sure many people are shaking with rage over my blasphemous accusation that  “Pelosi, Reid and Obama” are not fighting for affordable health care for all.  Well, it’s true.  If they fought too hard, they’d fight themselves out of a job.  Don’t believe me? Go to the Center for Responsive Politics’ site and look up how much money each of them received from the health care industry via campaign contributions and PACS.

It is time to wake up and smell the stench of death already. Not only will there be no viable public option, but these assholes are going to fine you if you don’t purchase health care. Lest you are tempted to point out the “exemption for poorer Americans”, you should know that the poverty line today is at the same absolute level as it was in 1963 [see article by Blank, 2008 in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 27(2)].

If you are alive and have fresh water, you basically live above the federal poverty line. The federal poverty line is one of the most frequently used eligibility criteria for the few remaining means-tested programs in Amerikkka, so I suggest that you start saving money now for health insurance premiums or bail.

Which leads me to my final thought.  The Republicrats recently robbed and raped us in the largest transfer of wealth in recorded human history (i.e., the bailouts aka TARP). The health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and many physicians have been robbing us blind our entire lives.  Derrick Jensen once wrote that violence is acceptable in our culture as long as it proceeds from the top to the bottom.  When it travels in the other direction, well, that’s when they install dictators like Pinochet, allow Coke to hire death squads to slaughter union members at a facility in Colombia, execute Aileen Wuornos, murder students at Kent State, torture a teenager at the RNC protest….

When it comes to health care, I say it’s about fucking time the shit starts flowing uphill for once.  Ever seen the movie Drugstore Cowboy?  Are we desperate enough yet to break into those pharmacy chain stores that horde life-saving medications and refuse to give them to dying people who can’t afford them?

“You got no money for your insulin?  Fuck you, then.  You’re dead.  Next!”

Maybe someone needs to start liberating all those medications from pharmacies across the nation.

Or perhaps people could go right to the source and simply take over a pharmaceutical company like Pfizer or another such death profiteer.  I seem to remember reading something once about the working class owning the means of production….. or something like that…I bet it applies to the means of producing antibiotics, insulin, hydrocodone and blood-thinners too.

As for the greedy physicians, of course I would never encourage or advocate violence, but I suspect that if 5 people entered an operating room while appearing to be exercising their 2nd Amendment rights, they would be able to find a surgeon who would be willing to perform an emergency appendectomy on their sick friend for free.

The way I see it, the motherfuckers on Wall Street are in debt to us to the tune of a trillion dollars. Since the government aided and abetted them in their crimes, then I think it should be patently obvious by now to even the staunchest Democrat that the government’s claims of authority are so illegitimate as to be laughable (I have thought that for quite some time, but I’m just part of the lunatic fringe so never mind what I think). Their laws protecting the private property of the medical industrial complex are thus null and void.

So, who needs an asthma inhaler?

I don’t know about you, but if someone in my family was dying due to a lack of health care,  I think I would be more inclined to create my own public option than to just sit back and watch them die, with nothing to salve their pain but the cyanide capsule of Hope™.

Sadly, a huge chunk of Americans opposes being provided with healthcare, and another huge chunk is drunk with a teenage crush on the guy who no doubt told Pelosi to strip out the [state-level single payer] amendment.