Health care divides nation

After a year of partisan posturing, stonewalling, and grandiose rhetoric, the health care reform bill was signed into law on March 30. This is a stunning victory for President Barack Obama and for the countless Americans, many of whom are students, who will be safeguarded from financial ruin because of unplanned medical expenses.

America was the only industrially developed nation not providing some form of universal health care to it citizens. In our county, a broken leg can cost over $10,000, the cost of prescription medicine skyrockets without insurance, and over half of the people who file for bankruptcy do so because of a medical expense.

Claiming that our health care system is anything but broken and therefore not voting to pass a bill to fix it is shameful.

The GOP and the Tea Party Patriots have been throwing around the word socialism like they just learned it. In no uncertain terms, this bill will not turn America in to a socialist country. This is just the conservative buzz word of choice for anything they disagree with, and is in no way founded in reality. We can all agree that Mexico, Canada, Germany, and virtually all of Europe are not socialist, and they all have universal healthcare.

There is also a lot of fanfare about whether or not this bill will use government money to subsidize abortions. A big reason this bill passed was because Obama agreed to issue an executive order clarifying the language on abortion to make it clear that the government money will not paying for them.

Republicans can yell "baby killer" in the middle of other people's speeches all they want, this bill helps save children's lives.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have estimated that lack of insurance leads to the death of around 1,000 hospitalized children a year.

The study did not include children without insurance who die outside of a hospital, which means the number of childhood deaths due to lack of health insurance is most likely even higher.

The bottom line is that despite the temper tantrum the GOP and their slightly less stable Tea Party counterparts are throwing, this bill will help insure the almost 50 million men, women, and children who didn't have any health coverage.

It is not an act of socialism, but of an act of social responsibility, and Americans should be proud that our country has finally crossed this barrier.

Uninformed Rant

On March 20, a cabal of anti-American saboteurs, known as Democrats, passed an insidious bill designed to destroy the American way of life.  As many of you have learned from the commie liberal news media, black President Barack Obama has signed into law the freedom hating, tax raising, baby punching travesty Democrats have the nerve to call "health care reform." Left with no other option, it is up to the few remaining patriots in this country to do what our founding forefathers (except for Thomas Jefferson, that God hating hippy!) would have done if they were still alive: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!!!

Now I'm not saying that we should be shooting Democrats or vandalizing their offices (but I'm also not not saying that if you catch my drift), but us patriotic Americans have got to take a stand and do something before these big government, fat cat bureaucrats start putting us into death camps for mandatory lobotomies.  Don't believe that could ever happen? Just look at the bill (and read between the lines): Forced sterilization, post-birth abortions, flouridation of our water supplies, death panels, gay marriage, and taxes, taxes, taxes.  It's all there if you look real close and sort of squint your eyes a bit.

Ever since that Kenyan born tax lover was elected President, the left wing talking heads have been all over the airwaves whining and complaining about how if we don't take care of health care now, the problem will only get worse.  What problem? Whenever someone in my family gets hurt in a way duct tape can't fix, we just go to the good ole fashioned emergency room.  The doctor sews you up and then you stop answering your phone so the bill collectors can't find you. That's health care the American way!

But no sir, that system just wasn't good enough for the tax and spend liberals.  These greedy, big government fascists won't be happy until they've sucked the last drop of freedom out of Lady Liberty's sweet teat.  As if taxing my income and property weren't enough (and for what I ask? Roads!?!) now these pinko-parasites are going to tax my God given right to tan! They won't be happy until every single American is as pasty and pale as their godless Soviet heroes.

The one upshot of this terrorist attack on the American people is that it has brought us real Americans together, united by our patriotic duty. We're putting our boot down and saying, "No!" to improved quality of life, more affordable health care, and better access for uninsured Americans.

I urge all of you to take a stand and fight this injustice any way you can.  Write a barely intelligible, apoplectic rant to your local congressman, put a bumper sticker on your car, punch a Democrat in the back of the head, and, most importantly, don't forget to vote Palin-Beck in 2012.