This past week has been a gem for comedy.... not from comedians but from politicians and talking heads on the proposals for U.S. Health care reform.
I loved Lynn Cheney the other nite on Larry King when she said so matter of factly - the government (of Canada) tells Canadians what doctors they must use (factually wrong on 2 counts - health care is delivered by provinces not the Federal Government and of course we can chose whichever doctor we want)
But the absolute best comedian has to be Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX:
On socialized medicine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW_GDBokb8w&feature=player_embedded
On the Canadian system:
“I know enough about Canadian care, and I know this bureaucratic, socialized piece of crap they have up there…”
Other notables:
Rep Paul Broun (R-Ga) “Life is precious. Some would say, ‘Well, she’s 85 years of age; we should just let her die.’ And that’s exactly what’s going on in Canada and Great Britain today. They don’t have the appreciation of life as we do in our society, evidently.”
Arizona Republican Sen Jon Kyl “the average emergency room wait in Canada is 23 hours—if you are even considered sick enough to be admitted.”
Comedy Central please sign em up. On the downside, many Americans will believe this as fact (thanks to an on air quote by some forgotten politician, the majority of Americans believe that the 911 hijackers came thru Canada (wrong by 100%) and few know Canada took in tens of thousands of stranded air passengers (majority were Americans) when the US closed its airspace
2 comments:
If it was fiction it would be a comedy gem.
Since most of these are the real people who are actually voting on the future of the US health care system impacting the medical care 300+ million people are going to receive going forward, it is far more tragedy than comedy that people that stupid/ignorant/dishonest (any of the preceeding or a combination of all 3, take your pick) are in that position.
I don't disagree with you that it is indeed more tragedy than comedy.
What I dislike is the blatant falsehoods and lies to scare the people.
If you are going to make a rational decision, you need all the relevant facts before you.
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