As Seen in the Miami Herald today:
For many who gathered in Miami-Dade Saturday to protest what they see as an ill-fated healthcare reform package currently under debate by Congress, the Democratic president may as well be a Communist dictator or comic book villain.
"I don't like the system he's proposing because he wants to control when people die," said Hibia Couce, a 73-year-old, retired school teacher who left Cuba 50 years ago. "That reminds me of Fidel Castro."
He wants to control when people die? The scary part: She was teaching our children. There is a video too.
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These are the same people who visit "doctors" and "dentists" practicing out of their Little Havana garages.
'Nuff said.
During the election, a Cuban friend explained to me that the Obama platform for "change" was the same platform that Castro ran on. Although I can't give an explanation for everyone else's protest, I can understand the elderly Cubanos' fears. They will do anything, no matter how irrational, to stop this "change" that the rest of us are "dying" for.
The other M
Yes some of these folks do have a flare for the melodramatic, but when we get the government option and that option eventually becomes a monopoly or close to one (see Citizens Insurance) there is no argument that our healthcare will regress and that at some point in the future the persons usefullness to the state will ultimately decide which treatments they are allowed.
It won't happen tomorow or next week not even next year but it will happen sooner than later, then we will see who the fools that should be pitied really are.
Everyones touting the success of Medicare when in fact the system is a den of corruption, waste and malfeasance on the verge of insolvency and will require more taxes too continue.
I agree something should be done, the first thing should be to ban every Big Pharma and HMO lobbyist from DC, then maybe some clarity can be shed on the issue.
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