FAYE KANE'S BLOG POST

FAYE'S (unedited) COMMENT AT AN ANGRY PATRIOTIC VET'S SITE


So the VA doesn't have the money to pay for all the expensive medications the big drug corporations are making a fortune from?

But the VA... isn't that, like, THE GOVERNMENT??

Maybe next time you won't vote for the candidate who:

1) lets big drug companies sell the same medicine for three times as much in America as they do in foreign countries,

2) passes a law against buying your medicine from Canada (which the police wisely do not enforce)

3) cuts taxes so "big gummint" won't have enough money to pay the VA for the overpriced miracle drugs which would cure you.

Instead, you get mad when the other candidate wins and tries to extend medicaid to everyone so you could get your medicine. They have their mouthpieces call it "communism".

No, "communism" is where everyone lives in squalor under a military dictatorship. "Communism" is red china and north korea. What they call "communism" is the medical system which every other civilized country has.

Everyone (even conservatives) agrees that this would cut health care cost in half. That's why they shout "communism" instead of saying "it would cost more": because it costs LESS.

Think it costs less because it provides less care?

Nope. It provides MORE, and everyone agrees with that too. That's why you hear lies about "death panels" instead of "you'll get less medical care if this "communism" is passed".


Your medicine costs twice as much because the drug and insurance company execs pocket your insurance premium to by another Lexus. They DO give some of it to their "in network" doctors--including paying yours a BONUS for denying you medical care. (Part of their pay is called a "bonus", and it gets smaller with every prescription they write and procedure they authorize).

Yeah, your taxes would go up, but only by half as much as your medical insurance costs you now. But you wouldn't have to buy medical insurance anymore.

Too good to be true? Ask your friend in Canada. They ALL think Americans are crazy for paying twice as much for WAAAY crappier medical care.

See, the rich people fooled y'all. "Rich people" means the large corporations and their mouthpieces like Fox news, who calls medicine for your kids "communism" and lied to you about "death panels". Beck and Limbaugh are both MULTI MILLIONAIRES.

The CEO of your company doesn't work as hard as you and your friends. In fact, he doesn't really "work" at all. He DOES take two-hour drink-lunches, plays golf during work hours, and hires his incompetent, stupid son-in-law as your boss.

Oh, and he also has much, MUCH better medical coverage than you. Ask HR.

This "gummint takeover of health care" you're told to be afraid of is nothing more than giving both the CEO and you the same medical insurance. For him, it means he doesn't get a private hospital room and restaurant food (though he can still buy it if he wants to pay for it).

But for you, your family, and the guys you work with, it means your daughter gets a flu shot like the CEO's daughter does, and that your son gets the knee surgery your health insurance won't pay for now

...IF YOU HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE AT ALL. None of the homeless do, and most of the male ones are vets. I'm a female one, and I'm going to die of Hep C at 34 because the cure, which is sitting on a shelf patiently waiting for its expiration date, costs $2,500 even though it costs the same to make as aspirin.

The CEO's wife, however, can get cured of that and many other diseases which YOUR wife can't. And unless grandpa was a CEO too, forget about high-quality medical care for grandma!
The real "death panels" are the conference rooms at the top floor of State Farm and Allstate.

Every time they get another tax cut giving you $80 and THEM literally millions of dollars each, they laugh at what a sucker you are and light their $40 cee-gar with a $10 bill.

Wanderingvet, THAT'S the $50 which should have paid for your VA medicine, and the medicine for all the other noble guys I know who willingly risked the ultimate sacrifice for a country run BY the wealthy, FOR the wealthy. Kerry was in 'Nam fighting REAL communism. Bush and Cheney were both DRAFT DODGERS.

They fooled you. See it now.

Only smart people ever change their mind and WISE UP ween they're being ripped off. Stupid people send their money to Nigerian bankers, wonder how they got swindled, and believe whatever they're told by their tee-vee set.

IN 2012, IF YOU'RE STUPID, WHICH THEY COUNT ON, YOU'RE GOING TO VOTE THEM BACK INTO POWER **AGAIN**.

You think that the saying "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" is a joke? Tell it to the brave, proud vets I know from the homeless shelter who need that help, and see if they think it's funny. The stories they tell of how they "used to be proud but you can't be proud when you're sick" made me want to cry.

And tell it to your mom while she "spends down" your inheritance at $5,000 a month, until she's in abject poverty and "the gummint" is allowed to pay for her nursing home.

And tell it to me in an angry reply to this

...while my guitar gently weeps.

Faye Kane
Homeless Bumstress