Cartoon for December 24, 2009
Obamacare manages to turn a disastrous healthcare system into something even worse.
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16 Comments:
Noooo! Could it be? Looks like him. John McCain in the slammer! John probably had 100% permanent, lifetime disability related to military service, plus POW status, and then he has the Senators' special medical coverage, plus he's rich, too! Couldn't be John McCain. Must be his twin brother.
By the way, Ted, Death Panels! Death Panels! Death Panels!
Is that urine around the base of the toilet or an old 'Support the Troops' ribbon?
"If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists!" -- notoriously, George W. Bush.
I'm still waiting for the rogue unofficial son-in-law/sperm donor to tell all he has on his (Sure! Right! Gimme a break!) rogue mother-in-law Sarah Palin.
Once Health Care is require to be bought by all and they start hitting people with their imposed $750 for not having coverage. I'm assuming that any real Tea Baggers out their won't be paying this fine (most of them have Medicare so it doesn't matter to them) but what about all of youngsters who simply are scrapping the bottom of the barrel to get by now? At some point people are going to get sent to jail for not paying this. Well at least once in "The System" immates have access to free (to them) healthcare.
I got a great idea for Obama to fix the economy. Make it illegal to be "Poor". Think at how many jobs will be created to build all the new jails! We got to pay someone to round up all these freeloaders too. By rounding them all up and locking them up it will make less people fighting over the few shitty jobs out there. It will instantly drop the unemployment rate (which will look good for Obama's approval rating), clean up the streets, states will save on unemployement & food stamps because all those people will be locked up.
When employers are looking for someone to hire why comb thru resumes when you simply can go to your local jail and get the pick out one you like (kind like a pet store).
That's change you can believe in!
That cartoon nails it...sort of like we are being nailed by the HMOs and health insurers.
It doesn't matter, in the long run. This bill is so ludicrous, nobody will actually enforce it even if it becomes law. We can't even afford to keep the people we have in jail right now.
I have seen no mention of jail time for this supposed fine, which is $750/year or 2% of household income. Anyone who can't afford that is going to be on medicaid, which is being expanded.
Ted, stop playing into the tea-bagger strategy of moronic exaggeration!
Think about it, Aggie. The fine will be on taxes. If you don't pay your taxes, you go to jail.
Yeah, Ted, that's going to happen, do you hang out with Rush Limbaugh on a regular basis? he "thinks" about "it" too....
Seems like Ebenezer Scrooge would have a good quote for this one...
I'm impressed with the intellectual prowess from Lansing. Astounding arguments!
So let's see if I have this correct Aggie. If I don't purchase health insurance, I will be put on Medicaid? then why would anyone purchase health insurance?
"So let's see if I have this correct Aggie. If I don't purchase health insurance, I will be put on Medicaid? then why would anyone purchase health insurance?"
Wow, you really suck at logic. If you can't afford $750 a year, you probably qualify for government subsidy of your health insurance. You're thinking dyslexically Anon.
And what if I can afford it, but refuse to purchase it Aggie?
Anon....then you're an idiot, and you pay your $750 stupidity tax for being a fucktard. I see no problem with that whatsoever.
Aggie,
I notice the more you are asked to defend your so called ideas, the angrier you get.
It took you awhile, but I'm glad to see you now agree with Ted.
AD, let me give you a little lesson on the law of unintended consequences (something you government types never take into account). If the fine is cheaper then the premium to pay for health insurance, and there are no limits to preexisting conditions, nobody in their right mind would purchase insurance until they had "a condition".
Anon....right dude...whatever, we'll see how that prediction works out for you...
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