Comments on: MONA CHAREN GETS THE FJM TREATMENT AND A BADLY NEEDED BOTTLE OF MOISTURIZER

By: displaced capitalist

displaced capitalist — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:04:38 +0000

@J. Dryden: Reminds me of the movie Patton where he flips out on the shell-shocked troops and calls them names. Nothing can get in the way of his dream of conquest and glory. The same goes for most Americans today. Interesting how Eisenhower had to shut him down after the war.

On a side note: Is J. Dryden a reference to the Judge of the Inquisition of Brittania?

By: SeaTea

SeaTea — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:50:05 +0000

It goes along with the whole "why should I buy insurance if I'm healthy?" meme that's been thrown around a lot by people I know. Arrogance combined with pure ignorance.

By: MarilynJean

MarilynJean — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:29:54 +0000

@J. Dryden: That is a really good point. I don't know why, but that just made a whole heap of sense to me.

I don't get the lack of compassion this healthcare opponents have. I just don't fucking get it.

By: J. Dryden

J. Dryden — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:03:25 +0000

For many people–especially social conservatives, I've noticed–illness is a sign of moral weakness. I wish I were being sarcastic. Doesn't matter if you have the flu; you go into work all the same, or you're lazy. Doesn't matter if you're severely depressed; you put on a happy face or you're burdening other people with your problems. Doesn't matter if you have cancer; you muscle through it with stoicism or, preferably, good cheer. So the notion of 'preventive medicine'–what, you're getting treatment when you're not even *sick*?!–touches a nerve with such people…

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:34:55 +0000

"the one that actually cost $700,000,000. That’s seven hundred billion dollars"

You're three zeroes short: 700,000,000,000

By: beau

beau — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:40:39 +0000

Check ups? Why go to the doc even once you're sick? If you just wait a while you'll die, thus saving the system EVEN MORE MONEY!

By: Mark S.

Mark S. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:30:09 +0000

They will spend less, they say, but also cover more people — the 47 million or 30 million uninsured (Obama has used both numbers).

That's crazy! That's almost as crazy as all of those countries that cover all of their citizens and spend about half as much as we do! We could never do that!

There is also no such thing as the National Cancer Society (it's the American Cancer Society).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:01:25 +0000

Why do people get physicals once a year? Shouldn't they wait till they are really ill to go to the doctor? What a waste of resources! Oh wait, that's fucking dumb.

By: Ecks

Ecks — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:55:48 +0000

And now that I think about it, isn't the whole point of the holiday inn commercials that the lay person ends up being really smart and right about things? This seems like an odd thing for the Republicans to be accusing the Dems of. But, on balance, we'll take it.