Notorious DUer Will Pitt Turns Angrily Against Obamacare

Harry Reid is going to have a hard time portraying Will as a Koch brothers shill...

William Rivers Pitt, a leftwing editor at TruthOut, whose foibles have been chronicled in NewsBusters and is probably best known for his journalism "scoop" of predicting the indictment of Karl Rove on May 12, 2006, is back in the spotlight again. While waiting 24 business hours to elapse for the Rove indictment to finally take place, Pitt shocked many at the Democratic Underground by posting an extremely angry attack, What I've learned about the Affordable Care Act, upon Obamacare due to a bad personal experience with it. In order to fully appreciate how far Pitt has turned against Obamacare, we need to go to his DU post back in December when he was proclaiming his love for Obama's signature plan...before he even experienced it:

DFU SONG: Teenager in Love (in love with Scott Ritter)
DFU SONG PARODIES | 1-2003 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland
Posted on 1/22/2003 10:07:38 AM by doug from upland

NOTE: although I make light of this and some might think there was no harm no foul because he really didn’t meet a little girl, child stalkers need to do serious jail time and perhaps be chemically castrated. If William Scott Ritter Junior is really innocent and the perp is another guy, then this song is about the other guy named Scott Ritter who was arrested twice. Parents, do you know what your child is doing on the Internet? You had better know.

MIDI - TEENAGER IN LOVE

I just turned 14 years old…I love the Internet
I chat with older guys who sure make my panties wet

Some day we’ll meet down at Burger King
Where I’ll watch Scotty Ritter doing his thing

My mom and daddy warned me that men are sometimes sick
I’m really hoping he’s…perverted like Slick

Some day we’ll meet down at Burger King
Where I’ll watch Scotty Ritter doing his thing

I’m really excited…we had another long chat
He says he’s ambidextrous…oh, I can’t wait for that

I had Mel Reynolds call me once from inside his prison cell
He said the day he’s getting out…he wants me to ring his bell

Some day we’ll meet down at Burger King
Where I’ll watch Scotty Ritter doing his thing

I’m really excited…we had another long chat
He says he’s ambidextrous…oh, I can’t wait for that

His co-author I wish he’d bring…I would like to watch two men
That is, if he can find the time…he’s busy on CNN

Some day we’ll meet down at Burger King
Where I’ll watch Scotty Ritter doing his thing
Where I’ll watch Scotty Ritter doing his thing
Where I’ll watch Scotty Ritter doing his thing

That is an awesome idea. Also, your proposal for a per-visit fee makes a really important point about things that are perceived as "free" or at least "already paid for."

If I may point out one tiny thing, though, it's that drug companies DO do their own testing (and yes, it's entirely at their own expense). The FDA may provide advice (if asked specific questions), but they do review (and boy, do they review).

Regarding drug development, an interesting idea floated a while back by another Freeper is the idea of levels of drug approval. While all drugs would have to undergo testing for safety, there could be an approval level just for that, with a higher approval level for proving efficacy. This sort of multi-stage approval system would greatly reduce drug development costs, and thus greatly reduce costs to the consumer. It would also allow doctors and patients to make their own decisions about what works. (Plenty of drug development programs nowadays are for chemical entities that have already been approved in another form or for another indication, in case you're wondering why anyone would want to just prove safety and not efficacy.)

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