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Monday, August 31, 2009

Hey, Morons

You know who you are. You send me these endless e-mails about illegal immigrants, health care nightmares and such. If you believe this stuff, you are a moron. If you don’t, you are making me think you are. You are all entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Fact: Illegal immigrants do not vote, receive Social Security or Medicare and no one is proposing that they do.

Opinion: Many of you don’t know the difference in an illegal immigrant and a doorbell. Many of our citizens are immigrants.

Fact: Most of our hospitals are required to treat anyone that comes in as an emergency. If you have appendicitis, you don’t have to show your birth certificate or naturalization papers.

Opinion: Thank God.

Fact: The government has no plans to take over health care, except for the 40% of the payments it is already making. (Not counting tax breaks for private coverage.)

Opinion: Maybe it should. We don’t get to vote the insurance executives out of office.

Fact: The public option in the House bill is to catch those whom the insurance companies kick out because they get sick or won’t insure because they may be.

Opinion: This scares the hell out of the insurance industry, and may kill the bill.

Fact: Our country went from a balanced budget at the end of the Clinton administration to a 10 trillion deficit as of 2008.

Opinion: Don’t blame Obama.

Fact: I have been a registered Republican most of my life.

Opinion: misguided youth.

Fact: The World Health Organization pegs our health care system at number 32, just above Cuba ; France is number one.

Opinion: If you hate our country so much, move to France.

1 comment:

M Veal said...

Wish I'd thought of this. I get the same junk with instructions to send it to everybody I know. Thanks for making the bold statement. Just to touch on the WHO rating of US health care . . . It's a great system if you are (1) well employed and have good insurance, (2) are rich and don't need help to pay, (3) are on a government system now like Medicare or Tri-Care or you are in the Military. For folks not in these categories you get a mixed bag i.e. no insurance, dropped coverage if you change jobs, loss of coverage if you have pre-existing medical conditions, rates that go up 20% or more every year, bigger co-pays etc. No wonder so many go withour regular preventive care that would save billions in our later years.