Me and George W. both believe that people, not the government, should make their own decisions -- rational decisions -- about the kinds of medications and treatments and operations they need.
Here's what George W. Bush said yesterday on the subject of health care:
THE PRESIDENT: America needs a health care system that empowers patients to make rational and smart decisions for themselves and their families, a health care system in which the relationship between the patient and the provider are central, not a health care system where decisions are made by the federal government.
Speaking as someone whose life is amazingly similar to George W. Bush's, I say that people really need to see that healthcare is just like taxes. Just like your money is your money and not the government's money, your body is your body, not the government's.
I mean think about it. If your doctor was a government doctor like the liberals want, then you'd be standing in line forever just like at the Department of Motor Vehicles. You could be standing there bleeding to death while the government doctors sat there behind the glass clipping their fingernails and fiddling with the radio. Then once you finally got to the front of the line they'd tell you to go back to the end of the line because you didn't dot your i's and cross your t's on the form. This happens in Canada all the time because of socialism.
I mean look at the whole Katrina thing. I don't know about you, but I don't want a government that can't handle a hurricane giving me a colonoscopy. I mean, would you want Brownie operating on you? Of course not. You'd be better off operating on yourself. On the Internet you can find instructions for all kinds of operations, and I'll bet you could do it ten times better than a government doctor could.
For all you liberal cowards out there who want the Nanny State to take care of you -- get over it. Or, if it makes you feel better, think of your health insurance company as a government.
But meanwhile, we conservatives know that only the market can deliver good health care. Private health insurance always does a better job than the government could ever do. That's why it costs so much! That's why healthcare in America is the best in the world -- because it costs so much!
Once again, it's the private sector with its rational market-based efficiencies that leads the way to citizen empowerment!
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I've got an idea for you on what you should self-amputate -- and it's not your colon.
Dear Paul,
I know I haven't written in a while and you probably wondered what happened to me and my attempts to get my husband "up to snuff." Well, it's not good. Not good at all, and I'm hoping you can help me with some of your presidential advice.
As I told you before, my husband hasn't been very interested in marital intimacy for quite some time. He's not been at all "congressional."
So when I turned to you as a person whose life is amazingly similar to George W. Bush for advice and you told me that I should invade his room and confer the blessing of freedom upon him, I decided to do a little reconaissance of his bedroom first. (As you recall, my husband and I have separate bedrooms).
Well, what I intended to do during my reconaissance was to look for certain technologies that I thought I might find there that might account for his less than loving behavior toward me. I was looking for -- I hesitate to say it -- a porn stash, or what I had come to think of as Weapons of Masturbation. I had come to think of them as Weapons because I see them as a threat to freedom. If you know what I mean.
Well, I looked everywhere. Between the mattresses, under the bed, under the cushions of his reading chair -- and well, just everywhere. It took a long time, because I was convinced that I would find those Weapons. But I didn't.
Anyway, I did initiate my Shock and Awe campaign that night. And, you were right -- I was viewed as a liberator by my husband. It really worked great!
Things were pretty good for a few days, but then my husband began to view me not as a liberator but as an "oppressor."
He began to lock his door. He said he didn't want any more liberation, or shock and awe. He told me that he never asked for a regime change, that he was was afraid all this freedom was going to wind up killing him.
So, my question is proably pretty obvious. What should I do now?
Yours Now Very Truly Desperate in Dubuque
That is so enlightening. Thank you for enlightening me and the blogdom
Paul - Thanks so much for explaining in a straightforward, easy to understand way, just why healthcare in this country is so astronomically expensive. Why..it's the BEST, that's why! I know I can't afford it, but it's nice to know that the top 10% wealthiest Americans enjoy excellent care. Sometimes the simplest answers are overlooked and made into complicated controversies. Thanks again for clearing this up.
To Desperate:
Honey, wow I'm so sorry. Sounds like you have quite a quagmire on your hands. Maybe you should "pull out" or would that only make things worse...hmmmm...
We appreciate you who stuggle "on the ground" as it were for Freedom's Cause. We are very proud of you.
Just keep telling yourself over and over that you are there for the cause of "Freedom" and that should make it all better and worthwhile.
Best of luck!
hey fuck you Paul. Maybe if you paid me back all the money you owed me I could afford some that G-D health insurance.
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