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President Won’t Confine His Family to Options Covered under His Health Care Plan
A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 27 June 2009 | John Semmens

Posted on 06/27/2009 3:57:15 PM PDT by John Semmens

President Obama’s health care TV special turned out to be more revealing than he intended. When asked whether he would accept the limitations on care prescribed by a government run health plan like Medicare when it came to members of his own family, the President responded: “no.”

“A national health care plan is aimed at ensuring a minimum standard of care for ordinary people who don’t have the resources for better care,” the President explained. “People with missions critical to the survival and prosperity of the nation—like the president, cabinet, members of congress and the like—will, naturally, need to receive the best care possible.”

The President explained that a cost/benefit calculus will be applied in decisions made under his plan. “We can’t just throw money around,” Obama said. “Persons of higher value to the nation will qualify for more expensive efforts to preserve their lives and health. It’s like a baseball team investing more in the health of a superstar than they do in a bench-jockey or minor-leaguer.”

The President further assured Americans that “those who are willing to spend their own money—like I would if it’s my wife, if it’s my children—can pay for their own care. We won’t outlaw private purchase of services like they do in Canada’s ‘single-payer’ system.”

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: obamacare; satire; socialism; triage
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To: John Semmens

This government is critical to the survival and prosperity of this country? Ha ha ha ha .....what a laugh. That kind of comedy is almost worth the trillions they are costing us.


21 posted on 06/27/2009 4:48:49 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: driftdiver

Do as I say and not as I do. The Obama’s send their kids to private schools in DC yet wish to deny educational vouchers for those in DC who wish their kids to also go to private schools. This satire piece is way too close to reality!


22 posted on 06/27/2009 4:57:47 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: John Semmens

How many more times does this leader of the donkeys have to expose his communistic tendencies...that sounds like something a communist leader would have said...it’s just disgusting to listen to and I 1000000% guarnantee the blind sheeple are shaking their head that yes, “napoleon” should be fed first and best...

seriously this is carbon copy Animal Farm stuff where napoleon keeps changing the rules to benefit the pigs while the useful idiots cheer him on until they are so bamboozled it’s too late when their eyes are opened...we are on that path.


23 posted on 06/27/2009 5:19:23 PM PDT by phatus maximus ( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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To: phatus maximus

Doh! missed the satire column again...even still it’s not that tough to make the leap on this and what was written.


24 posted on 06/27/2009 5:20:29 PM PDT by phatus maximus ( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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To: John Semmens

Socialism my ass. This is serfdom.


25 posted on 06/27/2009 5:32:21 PM PDT by LiberConservative
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To: LiberConservative

Egg on my face AGAIN. LC walks off sheepishly. :)


26 posted on 06/27/2009 5:33:34 PM PDT by LiberConservative
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To: jakerobins

No different than the soviet union


27 posted on 06/27/2009 5:36:30 PM PDT by Carley
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To: John Semmens

Satire?? Hell no it isnt. This is the plain bald-faced truth posing as satire.


28 posted on 06/27/2009 5:42:42 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: John Semmens

Too bad the “little people” are not intelligent enough to understand this important distinction


29 posted on 06/27/2009 6:05:13 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: John Semmens

No. HIS health plan is top-notch platinum, paid for by us. Same for congressjerks. They are acting like an upper class elite with special privileges while they throw crumbs to the ordinary people.


30 posted on 06/27/2009 6:15:31 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: John Semmens

“A national health care plan is aimed at ensuring a minimum standard of care for ordinary people who don’t have the resources for better care,” the President explained. “People with missions critical to the survival and prosperity of the nation—like the president, cabinet, members of congress and the like—will, naturally, need to receive the best care possible.”

I didn’t watch it.

Did he really say this??

Is there audio of it?


31 posted on 06/27/2009 7:02:01 PM PDT by incredulous joe ("No road is too long with good company" - Turkish Proverb)
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To: John Semmens

Well done Mr. Semmens.

Ya got ‘em again.


32 posted on 06/27/2009 7:31:47 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: Mr. K
OMG did he really say that?????????????????>

No. This is satire, albeit rather close to the mark.

33 posted on 06/27/2009 8:49:35 PM PDT by xjcsa (Currently shouting "I told you so" about Michael Steele on my profile page.)
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To: John Semmens
John, you've crossed the line this time. It's no longer satire---it's the truth.

: )

34 posted on 06/27/2009 9:35:16 PM PDT by melt (Someday they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: John Semmens
“People with missions critical to the survival and prosperity of the nation—like the president, cabinet, members of congress and the like—will, naturally, need to receive the best care possible.”

And just how are Michelle and O's daughters "critical to the survival and prosperity of the nation"?

Oh, I forgot, "some animals are more equal than others."


35 posted on 06/27/2009 10:33:40 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: John Semmens

No doubt, no doubt. You have prophesied once again.


36 posted on 06/28/2009 3:18:41 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: jakerobins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

Of course not....The Obama’s are Royalty.......NO, no, they are Muslims, and here is a more scare scenario for the future of your children’s children. It is very scary but true. One could say the abortionists and their hooligans have won the battle. The muzzies fight this effective “battle” without shedding blood in the bedroom. “Spread it around to everyone YOU know!!!


37 posted on 06/28/2009 4:37:40 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Mr. K; John Semmens
(Kinda like Scrappleface but not as funny)

How right you are. John's articles tend to 'pick the scab off the sore'.

38 posted on 06/28/2009 6:47:19 AM PDT by houeto (Defang the FEDGOV. Repeal the 17th!)
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To: incredulous joe

Check the source.


39 posted on 06/28/2009 7:04:37 AM PDT by houeto (Defang the FEDGOV. Repeal the 17th!)
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To: John Semmens

Ha, ha, another gem John. I’d like to see that question actually put to the Dems. They’re probably paying off their media flunkies to not ask that question.


40 posted on 06/28/2009 9:57:01 AM PDT by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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