What were we thinking? Don’t Repeal Health Care!
January 19, 2011 •
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by Hallafer T. Corspus, Executive Director
What were we thinking, folks?
For the last eighteen months, all us Tea-Partiers have been railing against so-called “Obamacare,” calling it a communistic, socialistic, Naziistic government takeover of healthcare.
But if you stop and think about it for a minute, what we were really doing is protesting against something that’s really good for us. Okay, now, before you get your barrels in an uproar, just hear me out. What we’ve been doing all this time has been — in effect — trying to defeat legislation that would benefit our families and our children, and that could some day save our lives.
What the hell were we thinking?
I have to admit, I was all gung-ho about repealing this job killing, Stalinistic legislation, but then my doctor told me my prostate is about the size of an over-ripe grapefruit and it will have to be removed.
And then I received a letter from a guy at Blue Cross informing me that their company will not be paying for the surgery needed to remove my grapefruit, and I will have to come up with $30,000 to $40,000 on my own — which I don’t have.
And then it hit me like the flash of a gun blast. I suddenly realized why the healthcare law is a good thing and why we should tell our congressmen to leave it alone: I don’t want to die.
All this time we were protesting against the government, threatening to go all Second Amendment on our representatives. That wouldn’t solve anything — the people we should be looking to snuff out are the insurance company executives.
You see, I’ve never missed a premium, yet these Nazi Capitalists decided on a whim not to provide coverage for me. There is no other way around it. If I don’t get this humungous gland taken out of my body, the doc says I only have a few months to live.
Then my neighbor, who’s an attorney, told me that — under “Obamacare” — my insurance company cannot refuse to cover my medical bills. He sent them a nasty letter on my behalf and the insurance company backed down and apologized for their “error.”
Fuck Sarah Palin and her “Death Panels.” Not only is that untrue, but it’s complete and utter nonsense. Does anyone really believe this legislation will give some Washington bureaucrat the decision over who will live and die? That was such a stupid, over-the-top fabrication, I am really incredulous at how we all fell for it — and really pissed that John Boehner and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh got us to believe it so much that we acted like idiots, putting teapots on our heads and carrying stupid signs.
The people who have been doing all the deciding as to who will live and who will die don’t work for the government; they work for the insurance companies!
But if the healthcare law is repealed, my insurance company can change its mind again and deny me coverage. Some guy in a cheap suit and skinny tie somewhere will decide that 46 years is long enough for a guy like me — with a rotting prostate — to live.
So for God sakes, if not for any other reason than to save my own life, I’m asking all the representatives to vote against the repeal of the healthcare law. We need to keep our precious healthcare reform. Forget the rallies I put together, the letters I wrote to the editors of all those blogs, the protest I attended in front of that burning effigy of Ariana Huffington. I now realize the error of my ways.
Thank god President Obama and the Dems didn’t give up so easily; I understand now what they were fighting for, and I hope the Republicans fail in their attempt to repeal the historic healthcare legislation passed by Obama and the Democrats in the previous session of Congress.
As I write this, the cancer is no doubt metastasizing from my pulpy prostatic rind, creeping slowly upward through my guavas and on to my kiwis. But once the surgeons cut me open and take it out, they say I have a great chance to fully recover.
Then after that, we can work once again to repeal this job-killing, fascist government takeover of healthcare.
