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You're a health care maven — lobbyist, legislator, whatever— and you run into House Speaker-in-Waiting John Boehner, an ardent foe of the new health care law in a Capitol Hill elevator.
Quick, what do you do? Egg him on in trying to repeal the law, urge him to reverse course, or suggest he focus on something else?
I would look him in the eye and tell him I'm probably in better shape then you, I'm not as orange and I'm younger. I don't smoke, I'm not overweight and my doctors tell me that I'm healthier now than I was ever in the past
why the FUCK should I be uninsurable?
Some of us didn't ask to be born like this.
Look me in the eye and tell me I don't deserve the same quality healthcare that you get, Orange Man.
then I would kick him in the nuts (ok I wouldn't but it's a nice fantasy)
You're a health care maven — lobbyist, legislator, whatever— and you run into House Speaker-in-Waiting John Boehner, an ardent foe of the new health care law in a Capitol Hill elevator.
Quick, what do you do? Egg him on in trying to repeal the law, urge him to reverse course, or suggest he focus on something else?
I would look him in the eye and tell him I'm probably in better shape then you, I'm not as orange and I'm younger. I don't smoke, I'm not overweight and my doctors tell me that I'm healthier now than I was ever in the past
why the FUCK should I be uninsurable?
Some of us didn't ask to be born like this.
Look me in the eye and tell me I don't deserve the same quality healthcare that you get, Orange Man.
then I would kick him in the nuts (ok I wouldn't but it's a nice fantasy)
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Date: 2010-11-04 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-04 08:59 pm (UTC)I probably should not mock him
(he's a congressman from Ohio who will become the new Speaker of the House in the US)
his tone has long been a topic of discussion on the internet (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090510151347AA7JSC8)
Olinj!
Date: 2010-11-04 11:26 pm (UTC)Re: Olinj!
Date: 2010-11-05 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-07 01:28 pm (UTC)I couldn't believe that so many ordinary people were opposed to the health care changes. I think they were all just pissed off that a black guy was in charge, to be honest. The way they were screaming and carrying on at those town hall meetings...ugh.
It's a shame that there couldn't be an opt-out option for the dumbasses who don't want public health care and then the rest of you can have it. Hope that things change for the better for you, bb. And go you for being so healthy and not-orange!