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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Camille Paglia: Medicare is being vandalized in order to provide healthcare for the currently uninsured

Salon columnist Camille Paglia Wednesday called the recently passed healthcare bill a grotesquely expensive nightmare.
Better still, in her most recent piece, Paglia said the "passive acquiescence of liberal commentators" to ignore how Medicare is being vandalized in order to provide healthcare for the currently uninsured "simply demonstrates how partisan ideology ultimately desensitizes the mind."

Unlike most of the Obama-loving media, Paglia correctly asked, "[W]hy can't my fellow Democrats see that the creation of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators?"
Readers are strongly advised to prepare themselves for the kind of straight talk on this subject that has been desperately lacking from press members that have clearly allowed partisan ideology to desensitize their minds:
As for the actual content of the House healthcare bill, horrors!...[T]his rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a nightmare. Holy Hygeia, why can't my fellow Democrats see that the creation of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators? Massively expanding the number of healthcare consumers without making due provision for the production of more healthcare providers means that we're hurtling toward a staggering logjam of de facto rationing. (continues here)  or full original story at Salon

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

camille paglia is often criticized by other feminists, and sometimes rightly so, but this is one of those instances when she is spot on.

if medicare is cut drastically, this will have a terrible effect on health care for the elderly and the disabled. you'd think somebody in washington thinks we'd be better off dead, and ought to hurry up and die. after a lifetime of paying into social security and medicare for our parents' generation, this just won't wash with those of us near to, or just at, retirement age.

all of us must fight this. if you're thinking 'well, i'm not old and i'm not disabled,' STOP. they'll find a way to come for you next.

over sixty, disabled, & mad as hell