Theresa Pitches Health Plan (Evita Puts the "ASS" in "CLASS" ALERT)

Lancaster Intelligencer Journal ^ | 9/9/2004 | Susan Lindt

[Rutles4Ever]

They've let her out again.

[KJacob]

The common man doesn't look at me as some rich witch

Man she can be condescending without trying. Common Man? Please!

[raptor29]

"After a 45-minute delay, Teresa Heinz Kerry wowed a SMALL crowd.........."

Pretty much all you need to know.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The common man doesn't look at me as some rich witch.

Oh, yeah?

[NRA1995]

Shove it, you idiots!!

[cwiz24]

Did she pick the lock on her muzzle or something? Someone needs to wrestle her back into her padded cell.

[Rutles4Ever]

Heinz Kerry said her husband's health care plan would be endorsed by legislators - even naysayers whom she said will find themselves voted out of office if they oppose the plan

Vote for this or else? Where in the hell did they find this alien life form? This is more material for Rush.

[TheBigB]

Teresa Heinz Kerry wowed a small crowd

< spectator shaking head > "Wow, what an idiot."

[uncitizen]

"Only an idiot wouldn't like this," she said. "Of course, there are idiots."

Id-yaughts! All of them! Off with their heads!

[mnehring]

Kerry's health care plan includes lowering administrative costs through less paperwork, giving consumers a choice of health insurance plans and control of their health care, and retraining Americans to think of health care as wellness and disease-prevention rather than the treatment of illness. OK, lets see, reduce paperwork.. HOW? I am sure most paperwork is due to the massive amounts of regulations in the health care and insurance industry. So, are they going to overturn a lot of laws and regulations that the dems so stand behind as protecting consumers?

Giving consumers a choice? Interesting. I didn't know that consumers didn't have a choice. Most are just too lazy or ignorant to realize they can go out and buy insurance on their own, choosing from hundreds of options. So, does mamma T want to force companies to foot the bill for even more insurance premiums by having more options?

Health Care versus Prevention. Most insurance companies I have dealt with in the past already do this. They realize that their costs will go down if people take care of themselves.

Full of sound and fury, signifying NOTHING!

[Old Sarge]

Central PA PING!

[marty60]

State Rep. Mike Sturla left Heinz Kerry's visit impressed. Citing a 17.4-percent Medicare rate hike that doesn't include a corresponding increase in services and the 2 million Americans who have lost their health insurance since George W. Bush took office, Sturla said any plan would be an improvement.

Oh really, I guess that Perscription plan was nothing. I guess if you ignore that and it's increased cost to medicare, that premium increase is "wrong" Dums are so dumb. Do medicare recieps want to pay 10 to 17 $$$$ per month, to get major discounts on meds? Let's see now that's a really hard one.

[truthingod]

I believe health care in America is in need of an overhaul.
yet, the plans given by Kerry do not deal with the runaway costs of healthcare. Prescription medication costs will bankrupt any healthcare plan offered. One can see the prescription drug lobbyists already salivating at the thought of a national health plan. Hospitals and Doctors do not receive adequate reimbursement for the services they render now, just look at medicare and medicaid programs. The answer really lies in lifestyle choices that leave people open to disease and sickness. Yet, nobody wants to tell Americans they are too fat, eat too much junk food, smoke and drink too much, etc.

[.38sw]

They've let her out again.

That was my first thought. Or, perhaps she escaped.

[Maceman]

Man she can be condescending without trying. Common Man? Please!

Such dismissive phrases -- "The Common Man," "The Masses" and "Joe Six-Pack" -- are hallmarkes of Progessive leftist political speak. Such language belies the fundamental misanthropy that underlies their worldview.

People who trace their intellectual roots back to Classical Liberalism (such as Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers) have much more respect for human beings in general, and in my experience generally do not use such terms.

[concerned about politics]

Promising a three-pronged approach to providing health insurance to all children and 95 percent of adults after John Kerry's first year in office

Who's going to pay for this? It'll cause a tax revolt. 50% of the nation, Democrats, will get a free ride. The other 50% will get stuck with the bill.

I refuse to be part of this. We'll take a wage cut before we'll pay for something like this. This is not Communist China. No way will we pay!

[NEBO]

She could sell her multi million dollar mansions, 5 or 6 of them, and spend the money to REALLY HELP the poor and uninsured IF she REALLY wanted to help.

[beckaz]

"Only an idiot wouldn't like this," she said. "Of course, there are idiots."

That's right, after reading all these Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute papers on the subject, Heinz-Kerry decided they were all idiots. Throw Milton Friedman in that mix too. Phew! Thanks for the insight Terayyyzaa, I did not know you were a Nobel Prize economist....

[NEBO]

I heard that the Kerry healthcare plan would cost us $1750 per full time worker. I really don't have an extra 2 or 3 thousand $ sitting around. I have three kids in college.

[OldFriend]

Dear dear dizzy tizzy. Count me as a proud idiot.