LINK to the cartoon
To start this off I am think I am legally allowed to do this but I am not sure. It says it costs 3 dollars to use this cartoon on a school site, but I am not reproducing or placing the cartoon on this site just linking to it on their page. If anyone has any definite proof that this is illegal please say so and I will delete asap.
The cartoon is one of a man with an elephant face for a head and another man with a donkey face for a head and the caption reads (paraphrasing for legal reasons even though I am not sure if I have to) something like:
So all of America is going to be denied health care because of THEIR pre-existing conditions
In case someone does not get it: the two people are representative of the republican and democratic parties. The author makes a joke at the fact that many Americans are turned away from health care because of pre-existing medical conditions and they may be further turned away by health care because of the pre-existing political conditions between the two parties.
I find the cartoon funny and agree that the politics between the democratic and republican party sometimes get in the way of many bills being passed.
This has nothing to do with the current post but my session of blogging is finished so I decided to have some fun:
SUPER AWESOME INTERESTING LINK THAT YOU CANNOT RESIST CLICKING
Squishable Pre-Dawn Open Thread
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8 comments:
YOU ARE A JERK MARK! LOLOLOL, WIN!! EPIC WIN!!
(And before people start ranting about my "hate" towards Mark, just know it's all friendly, Mark knows that..)
But, in response to the actual comic and not the super special link..
I find that is true in a lot of the health care debate. People in the legislative offices actually debating have health care. They don't need to worry about what happens if a loved one suddenly was diagnosed with cancer. It's a sad reality, but sometimes people just don't see past their world.. and I admit to being folly of that too..
Lmao. Nice link Mark. I didn't expect to see that on a blog...
Anyways, I definitely agree with Franklin. The health care debate is being argued by people who already have health care. They don't understand to live from paycheck to paycheck or to live without health care. People of the lower class don't decide to not have health care. It's not fair to deny access to health care for people who cannot pay for it.
That's just my stand point. People can agree or disagree...
After doing extensive research on health care for the Outlook article, I am inclined to both agree and disagree.
I agree that there are "pre-existing" political conditions that may stand as ulterior motives to support or oppose certain health care proposals, but party politics are not the only "pre-existing conditions" in congress. Many important congressmen working on the bill receive large sums of money from the health insurance industry, and I am inclined to believe that this is just as or possibly even more deadly a "pre-existing condition" than party politics.
These contributions to congressmen from the insurance industry commit that person to favor the industry despite party lines. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana and chair of a senate committee that is producing important health care legislation received $2,880,631. Another Republican on the committee received $2,034,000. This committee, though headed by a Democrat, is expected to introduce a bill without the public option, blurring supposedly solid party lines.
Julia B.
Hey! I agree with Yoda. I feel like the health care issue is being displayed through the media and talked on by people who are in the higher class that can afford health care. People who are in the lower class are suffering and their struggles are not necessarily shown to the public eye. Here's a youtube video by an organization fighting for health care. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxE9D6mIO7o&feature=related
What do you think?
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Rofl at the F bomb.
Healthcare can be quite a problem though. Those drug abusers out there end up in the hospital after years of habit and raise all of our tax dollars making it impossible for some of us buy anything at all.
Yoda and Goldie.
Yes, some conservatives act like they have never seen a poor person in his/her life before, but they come in few numbers.
Most of the conservatives are either too worried about government or about how to foot the bill.
The latter worry is the most legitimate.
There's still no easy way to pay for universal healthcare coverage.
Yes, it is important to reform healthcare, but those two underlying problems are the cause of delay.
I went to Kaiser's Shareholder meeting on the inflection point of healthcare coverage about two weeks ago. The main speakers are Fareed Zakaria and Bob Reich (or whatever his name was). I must say, there was a sense of apocalypse at the meeting. From vague memory, health insurance takes up about 16% of GDP spending, and it's increasing, so if reform doesn't take place now, things are going to spiral out of control. And we may never get such an opportune chance at reforming health care again. The democrats will be devastated if they fail in this. That was the mood among doctors during that meeting. Too bad I fell asleep for some of time Fareed was talking, otherwise I would have a lot more to say.
Wow Mark, thanks. Now that stupid song is stuck in my head!
Going back to the cartoon: That's hilarious, but so true. Didn't address that in his speech the other week? I think it was before that guy from South Carolina yelled out "You lie!" I think he said that they have to put aside their differences to help the People. Basically, GET OVER YOURSELVES!
Anyway, nice way to close out your week.
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