These are the same people who will go on and on about how small towns are so much better than big cities… now, traditionally, the advantages of small towns have involved community solidarity — people knowing and helping one another. But the whole philosophy of today’s right-winger seems to be “I got mine; screw everybody else”. What this translates to is a realization that the true ethics of small-town-ness aren’t ethics of community, but principles of bigotry and double-standards. In other words, people from small towns are prejudiced toward other small-town people. It isn’t morality. It’s “Us” vs. “Them” thinking. It’s “I am loyal to my little tribe, and everybody who isn’t like us is The Other.” So their attitude is really quite appropriate.

There’s a very real question about resources getting apportioned correctly, although I don’t think that’s what these folks are asking. They seem most worried that 1. Their tax dollars will pay for someone else’s health care and 2. That people who can’t afford health care now are somehow undeserving.

It is “Us” vs. “Them”, but the wingnuts only think they are members of the “Us”. They’ll never actually get into the country club they are protecting. Too bad they’ll never wake up to the fact that they are simply useful idiot to Noot and the other Republic leaders.

Thank you, Teddy. A number of years ago I heard a right-wing caller on Ed Schultz’ radio show — the topic was immigration. Ed did a masterful job walking this reasonable-ish sounding conservative man through the logical conclusions of his view that we should end all social services to everyone undocumented. Right to the door of an ER with an undocumented woman in the late stages of pregnancy with a life-threatening emergency and, of course, no insurance.

The guy was flummoxed. He realized he was stuck between the rock and hard place of his own rigid ideologies.

I have always marvelled that the religious right (and fwiw, I am a Christian) can’t see that their views inevitably wind up at a very un-Christian place.

Maybe we’re finally at the moment where the smoke will start pouring out of their ears as all those circuits start frying under their own heat.

YOYO…always have been, tried to get help from gummit once and got the run-a-round. But I wouldn’t deny any health or medical services to anyone that needs it. Wish we had universal health care..looks like we will all die without it. Money for everything and everyone but medical. Money for Pols, filthy rich, bridges, roads, banks, car dealers, houses that buyers can’t even afford to pay taxes on. So it’s screw the poor and sick maybe they will just die soon..problem solved.

They really are YoYo’s

Damn, Ali-G needs to interview Newt again…Or maybe people should start prank calling Limpballs…

Quite a daunting challenge: Understanding the functioning of the lizard brain.

This morning on WJ a woman on medicare called in. Her concern was that if we add 46 million people to be able to see the doctors there wouldn’t be enough doctors to go around and that she wanted it to stay the way it is.

She has a point. Who wants to be 46,000,001 in line?

Hey there, Sue.

And in a pandemic circumstance, don’t they want everyone helped? I mean, the gates on their communities mean nothing to a flu virus.

I got mine – screw you.

Detroit out to market test that as the name for one of their new car models.

This is the core issue for them: they don’t want to share. Of course, since Year One is 2013, we do have some time to get new doctors into the pipeline. And “Death Panel” some undeserving old folk who are sucking up resources.

I guess I’d better put a “/s” tag here.

Obama said at the townhall earlier today that part of the plan is to add more family practice MDs and nurses and that part of the stimulous is in fact going to this end.

and nurse practitioners

It’s just like with the truthers, you can’t say – google Marvin Pierce Bush; Main Stream Media can’t say – Social Democratic Moment; when discussing health care. Newty’s just another bigot from that small southern town organization known as The Machine. He’ll support Caribou Barbie to the Scamway slug that wrote ‘Compassionate Conservatism’ ’cause he’s just a former house speaker looking for a new gig. This is the so called conservative boffing a bimbo while impeaching Clinton, and pressuring him to invade Iraq before they got their ‘Pearl Harbor Moment’.
He’s another corporate defense health care puppet like W. who never knew what was going on Sept. 11, 2001 either.

How about public financing of medical school education with government assistance for the brightest, the way the rest of the world does it.

here’s a point I wish progressive spokescritters would make, they can plaguerize with my permission, I would allow it;

from time long before man rose to walk on two legs there was universal health care, where the strong protects the the young and the old, where the the hunters provide for the gatherers and the gatherers provide for teh hunters, where the young are fed and housed…even birds have universal health care…even bees have universal health care.

a pride of lions and a pack of frigging wolves have universal health care

once you have a society, once you travel in more then one and you live in mutual benefit you have universal health care

and this is the very point, we ALWAYS took care of the weak, the old, the sick, the young, it wasn’t until corporations began that this unversal necessity was turned into some kind of option

Generally that is the plan. Paying off debt if graduates go in to family practice.

The scarcity meme plays well in Utah. I was writing about this last week in response to a Utah newspaper’s fear mongering that their Medicare doctors would be overwhelmed. I asked people to imagine how much cash would be infused into Utah’s health care system if they suddenly had 295,000 more premium paying customers, ya know, the ones who don’t have any insurance or healthcare now????

Incentives are needed to attract medical professionals to set up practices in small towns and rural areas as well.

Agree, and NPs or PAs could do this.

We’re a hands-on, can-do people who can quite easily deal the most complicated of these problems. Including outbursts of the lizard brains.

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Self-correction: 195,000 newly insured Utah-ians paying premiums into a medical system would purchase quite a few new clinics and could hire new staff too:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12984598

depending on one’s perspective compassionate conservatism was either still-born sometime in the mid-Victorian era or drowned while the President fiddled as Blackwater was hunting people with guns in the ruins of New Orleans or got smashed into oblivion the first time the President’s torturers subjected an innocent to the strappado. In my opinion, what we’re seeing now is not the end of compassionate conservatism but rather the rise of the New Republican Thugocracy – rule by gangsters and their mobs.

I always thought that “compassionate conservatism” meant they add fabric softener when they’re washing their swastika armbands. Was I wrong about that?