Deforming Health Care

Obamacare. Chrump Don’t.

The United States of McConnell
June 24, 2017

Get Ben’t

First a few words about mental health, or the staggering lack thereof. I know that this sun-drenched fish of an administration is rotting from the head down, but there are some heavy hitters vying for Bull Goose Looney. For example, Ben Carson. The ex-surgeon, famous for separating conjoined twins but clearly not fact from fiction must have watched the movie Trading Places one too many times. On a bet, the born-rich Dan Ackroyd is caused to switch places with pan-handler Eddie Murphy just to see how they both fare and hilarity ensues. Though not without a dose of social commentary. In a recent interview, Ben the brain-dead brain surgeon, known as much for attaching foot to mouth as separating conjoined twins, said, “I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind. You take somebody that has the right mindset, you can take everything from them and put them on the street, and I guarantee in a little while they’ll be right back up there.” And you take somebody with the wrong mindset, you can give them everything in the world, they’ll work their way back down to the bottom.” I say Mental Ben should remove his foot and put his money where his mouth is. Let’s drop Ben, armed only with a dollar bill and the over-priced suit on his back, on any Indian Reservation or poverty stricken urban neighborhood and see how long he lasts.

Republican’ts are plying their usual shtick. Their latest attempt to do as much damage as possible to women, the poor, minorities and the infirm, while handing the keys to the kingdom – and I do mean kingdom – to the wealthiest among us, is their so-called health care reform. Their plan is to take health (and wealth) away from those at the lower end (if 98% can be considered an end) of the economic scale, and pass it on to those at the other end. And you will never guess in which direction the goodies are flowing. You will never guess because you already know and have known for many a year. It is not that the wealthy shall inherit the Earth; it is being handed over to them in return for campaign funds. I seem to recall someone saying that the meek shall inherit the Earth. How can the meek inherit the Earth if the Republican’ts, so many of whom claim to be men of God, keep trying to kill them off? Jesus would be very proud.

You might remember that during the long, drawn-out, very public debate leading up to the passage of Obamacare, the Republican’ts led by mental defective Sarah Palin, were squealing about so-called Death Panels. They were concerned that elderly people would have access to counseling on end-of-life issues. The new “improved” Republican’t neither-repeal-nor-replace plan is the real death panel, and not just for the elderly. By most accounts, tens of millions will not be able to afford medical insurance. And tens of thousands of people will die precisely because of this draconian legislation. Republican’ts want to get rid of the entire segment of the population that is not white, wealthy and male. What is wrong with these people? Although, to be fair, this was the very segment of the population that our founding fathers favored.

Son of a Mitch

Dozens of peaceful protesters – many with physical handicaps – were arrested outside professional hypocrite, and Satan's little helper Mitch McConnell’s office, on the heels of the heel’s super-secret-super-shitty and Orwellian-named American Health Care Act. A number of those arrested were in wheel chairs, some of whom were bodily carried away and injured by Capitol Police. These protesters were only trying to stop the more aptly named Chrump/Ryan/McConnell Anti-Health-Care from destroying their lives by yanking the Medicaid (which Chrump repeatedly promised not to touch) rug out from under them. The AHCA will stomp the crap out of a huge swath of Chrump’s most ardent supporters, who will assuredly blame Obama once their world comes crashing down. Chrump originally said that the bill was “something that is very, very, incredibly well-crafted", later calling it “mean, mean, mean” and “a sonofabitch.” A very, terrifically decisive leader. This is one of the most hateful, despicable pieces of shit legislation to come down the pike since Dred Scott.

I. Mangrey reporting. My brain hurts.