Obama's Enemies List: A Growing List of Obama's Enemies

From the Wall Street Journal article “Confessions of an ObamaCare Backer” a reader makes a comment in response to a statement made by another reader reading government run health care.

First reader (THOMAS ELMO):
Every other developed country in the world has a form of universal health care. We are the freaks on this issue.

This is not some new fangled idea nor is it a power grab. Civilized people in the world feel that health care is a service that their governments should provide for people without regard to how much money they make or what kind of company they work for.

It is simply the right thing to do – just like ensuring that everyone can get a basic education. Enough with this Neanderthal posturing.

Second reader (jeanne babin aka Tea Bag Right Wing Anti-Government Extremist):
First, every man, woman and child in this country gets health “care” already. So spare us your high horse.

Second, while all those other countries were building up their socialized health care schemes, they were relying on U.S. citizens to provide and pay for their national security. They all abandoned their militaries and left the heavy lifting to us (and then promptly called us warmongers).

Third, if it’s not a power grab, why are they imposing ever-higher costs on those of us who DO have health insurance? Why not a plan to deal with those who don’t have it? On this point, let me ask you something: I am far from wealth, make less than $40k per year. But I pay for my own health insurance. Pretty good policy, too. I’ve been paying my own way for about 9 years. Now, in the goodness of your heart, you think everyone should get the same thing. What if they didn’t make the sacrifices I made? Or made bad choices in life. Why do you feel so smug in insisting that person “deserves” the same thing I sacrifice to provide for myself?

Fourth: There are many right things to do, just as there are many ways to do them. In this case, they plan to spend trillions of dollars and that doesn’t even include the amount taxpayers and policy holders will pay. Given all the new requirements on my insurer, I would be worried about rate increases….except they made it so I will NOT be able to keep my policy. I will be forced into a “qualified” or government plan because my policy will no longer be offered.

Fifth: Do you worry at all about the cost? Or do you think we should just do the “right thing” every time and let later generations worry about the cost. Anyone with a brain knows Congress isn’t going to cut Medicare by hundreds of billions.

Here’s the sure path this will follow: Add tens of millions to the roles, then watch lines back up at medical facilities and doc’s offices. Saddle insurers with onerous requirements, then call them villains when they raise premiums to cover the new risks. Eventually, you will have made private insurance so expensive that the gov’t will have “no choice” but to take the whole thing over.

You preen and strut, so high minded and ready to do the “right thing”. You’re “civilized”, which I presume means anyone who disagrees with you is “Uncivilized”. But your use of terms like “freaks” and “Neanderthal” give you away. You’re nothing more than a bitter partisan, happy to see your party lie in order to achieve their agenda.

I, too, am a right wing, tea bag, anti-government extremist, like ‘jeanne babin’.

Thank you, jeanne.