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Here is WALNUTS! performing his most comical act: pretending he knows anything about domestic policy! (Foreign policy, too, but that's a different kind of Sad). In this ad about health care, he repeats a very important but widely ignored aspect of the issue: health care is very expensive. Yowza! And then the innovative approach: we must make it affordable. And, of course, the perfect solution: $5,000 tax credits to fix health care entirely. But he fails to mention the simplest way to reduce health care costs: stop spending $6.7 billion to wake up John McCain's failing carcass every day. Also, doesn't he sound congested in this thing? It could be pneumonia, which is almost always lethal when you're McCain's age. [YouTube]
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Wow, thanks Walnuts: $5K check from gummint = problem solved. See how easy that was? Hillary and Barack, please go away with your "mandated health insurance" plans.
What's that? You've got a kid on dialysis? Gee, Walnuts feels terrible about that.
Step 1: Give everyone a $500 tax credit to buy health care
Step 2: most employers drop their health plan.
Step 3: Insurance companies up their prices "a bit" since people now have $5000 more to spend on health insurance, plus they have none of the bargaining power they had under employer provided group plans.
Step 4: Pharmaceutical companies raise prices on drugs "just a bit" now that people have $5000 more to spend on them.
Step 5: Out of control deficit forces the government to gradually phase out $5000 health care tax credit.
Step 6: We're all uninsured and basically fucked.
@V572625694:
If your child was born with a serious medical condition, it's obviously God punishing you for being a bad Christian. Not only is it your fault that your child is ill, but furthermore the government has no business interfering with God's divine justice.
@Serolf Divad: Exactamundo. Thanks for clearing that up. Now how can we explain Dubya's terminal stupidity?
Fuck you all. I'm moving to Cuba.
@Serolf Divad: Monthly cost of health insurance for one average age employee = $400
Monthly cost of health insurance for employee's family = $800
Total monthly premium of $1200 x 12 months/year = $14,400
So WTF, Walnuts? This doesn't even come close to helping.
...way to go for stating the obvious WALNUTS!
PS: Where's your flag pin, Walnuts?
@V572625694:
I had an argument once with a Libertarian who was touting the joyous benefits of health insurance plans with high deductibles. These plans, at first seem moderately affordable. They carry premiums of, say $500.00 a month for a family. But they also carry $5000 deductibles. And when you do the math you find that a family is spending something like $10,000 a year out of pocket before they see one penny of reimbursement. And furthermore, these are the cheaper plans... plans in states that allow insurers a good deal of leeway in deciding who and what they'll cover and when, for what reasons and how fast they'll drop you or jack up your rates. So in the end, these plans are not only expensive as hell, but they also only apply to relatively healthy families.
...am I the only one that is utterly dumbfounded at the fact that there is such thing as a Republican "base"? There only plan/solution for every issue under the sun is TAX CUTS. If the economy is good then cut taxes; if the economy is bad tax cuts! George Bush has been cutting taxes for the last 7 years and you still CANNOT afford insurance, if anything it is even harder to get now than a decade ago. Socialized medicine is not perfect but it is sure as hell better than the ass backward system we have now.
@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Methinks we're all slated for Gitmo, anyway. :p
I was unaware that the dictionary definition of 'straight,' as used in the phrase 'straight talk,' had been changed to 'meandering, confused, and disingenuous.'
@Serolf Divad: ...call me a communist, but I'm of the belief that there are certain indusries that morally should not exist. I think "medical insurance" is one the most evil and morally corrupt industries ever created! The sole purpose of insurance companies is DENYING coverage to its "customers". They literally make decision about who should receive life saving procedures based upon a business model. Essentially the "Black Market for Human Organs" and "Insurance Companies" are one and the same; if you need it and cant afford it then you are fukked!!! Health care should be provide by an entity who's only vested interest is in the health of its customers NOT its stock holders portfolios.
@AngryBlakGuy:
I won't call you a communist. I bet you own every Dead Prez album, though. (wink, wink)
Fuck the sick and the poor. If they hadn't chosen to be sick and poor, they wouldn't be, well, sick and poor. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
The poor sick are being punished for something wrong they did. The fabulously wealthy have been blessed for being responsible and hard working. Do the math people.
What about a sick child?
Walnuts : "fuck em"
Straight talk indeed.
Thanx you wacky geriatric. Sending out the equivalent of big boxes of band aids. I have a pre-existing health "condition". Outside of a employee mandate plan 3K a month, yes I said 3K. I dont think I pay enough taxes to handle that.
McCain should go for the ancient Sparta plan. Every sickling and useless geezer gets tossed into the sea. If they can swim the 200 miles to Italy they're spared.
@Botswana Meat Commission FC: SHHHHHHHH...
@AngryBlakGuy:
So, what will McCain's gas tax holiday get you? You want to save $100 on gas? You have to drive almost 12,000 miles.
The federal gas tax is 18.4 cents a gallon, whether you pay $1.00 a gallon or $3.50 a gallon. If you get an 18.4 cent break that gives you $100 after you purchase 543.48 gallons. If your vehicle gets only 22 MPG, you have to drive 11,956.52 miles to get that $100 saving.
That is almost 4 and a quarter trips between NYC and LA on I-70 and you will have spent $1,802.75 for the gas.
But you voted for the Republican guy who was going to cut your taxes.
How does he know. He's had government healthcare his whole life. His dad was an Admiral, so you know Crazy Johnny had the best doctors in the Navy. He has Vietnamese health care when he was in Hanoi. He has had government health care every since he became a Senator.
Remember the Keating Five!!!
@JamesMichaelCurley:
But you voted for the Republican guy who was going to cut your taxes.
Plus, don't forget: those Republicans who cut taxes... they like the government raising needed revenue through "user fees" instead... you know.. like the toll booth on the highway that charges you in your 10 year old Civic the same $2.00 it just charged the guy in the 2008 Bentley Arnage.
@Serolf Divad: Very accurate prophecy, I'm afraid to say.
@Churchill: Which is why when he denounced "government health care", I had a great big laugh. What an ass.
Shh Wonkette didn't you get the latest media-wide memo? No negative coverage of McCain until the dems finish self-destructing (Octoberish), plus you forget to use the word "Maverick" at least four times per McCain mention as required by law.
@Serolf Divad: My wife and I will get $1,200 from when the Eagle sh*ts. My boss/company, who was planning to upgrade the network core anyway, gets almost $10,000 with the 50% depreciation provision. I slected the equipment months ago. Its all made in China.
So goes the "China Economic Stimulous Act."
This is so stupid af i'm losignh sdb bleargh!@
@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Can you save me an innertube for the float from Key Largo, por favor?
Blah... We need community health centers, we need walk-in [closets], "We understand that emergency room care is the most expensive in America".. Doesn't he mean the world? I get it in context, but shit..
Also, apparently quality isn't an issue; that's why I see a 25 year old PA everytime I go to a 'Doctor'.
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