Insurance Hypocrisy: Property more important than People »
Posted By ameliog 2 months ago in Political Opinion
It didn’t take very long for the conservative Republicans in the SouthEast, who have been yelling a lot lately about how Government is never the answer, to change their tune and beg for government assistance in the wake of widespread flooding. But I resisted posting a story about that, since I hate to hit people when they are down (even ignorant people).
But that was before I found a couple of stories about how the very same people who are opposing government health insurance, are for the exact same thing, but only if it applies to property and not to people’s health. So if your property floods, and you didn’t bother to purchase flood insurance, then they are all for the government bailing you out. But if you get sick and don’t have health insurance, you can die for all they care.
For example, when Hurricane Katrina hit the home of then Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, and he hadn’t purchased flood insurance, he introduced a bill to provide retroactive insurance to flood victims such as himself. Retroactive benefits were also supported by Mississippi’s other Senator, Thad Cochran, and by governor Haley Barbour. But all three of these Republican have fought health care reform.
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pollfl2 months ago
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It seems to me that politicians are against whatever the other side is for and vice verse. Non of them do what is best for all of us, they are all interested in one thing, maintaing there power by getting re-elected and their bountiful benefits.
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Americans have to forget party affiliation and have to stand up for whomever promotes a sound program that reforms health care without bankrupty our unborn grandchildren or having us sacrifice our elderly to an pain killers to avoid the treatment they really need. The problem is were too busy to get involved, we need our own AARP for all of us in the middle.
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