Health Care
“What the left wants to do is to have a single-payer national health care plan,” Mr. Boehner said. “While the government option isn’t exactly that today, all the infrastructure that is being built into the government under this bill is intended to get ready for that.”
Would that it were, Mr. Minority Leader. Would that it were. The current public option gets 2% of the country out of the disastrous private health care system, but makes up for it by sending roughly $600 billion their way in the form of subsidies to offset a mandate to purchase health insurance. Seriously, if the Democratic party were willing to take on 10% of the policy programs the Republicans try to accuse them of, this country would be in far, far better shape. I’m reminded of an old Jewish joke, explained here by Christopher Hitchens:
A sour old joke from prewar Germany has two elderly Jews sitting in a Berlin park, with one of them reading a Yiddish paper and the other one scanning the pages of Der Stürmer. The latter Jew is laughing. This proves too much for the former Jew, who says: “It’s not enough you read that Nazi rag, but you find it funny?” “Look,” replies the other. “If I read your paper, what do I see? Jews deported, Jews assaulted, Jews insulted, Jewish property confiscated. But I read Der Stürmer, and there’s finally some good news. It seems that we Jews own and control the whole world!”
I’m only watching Glen Beck from now on: apparently, we’re socializing health care, redistributing money, attacking white dominance in the United States, and yes, we control Hollywood and Wall Street. I’m pretty sure Beck insinuates both "Jews" and "Liberals" on that last one.
