In The Elevator With Boehner: What Do You Say About Health Care?

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this question was posed @ NPR

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)

Comments

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Laughing out loud! I know this is a very serious matter and it horrifies me to read/hear about the proposal to overturn Obamacare. But I hope you don't mind me laughing. It's the term 'Orange Man' and your nut-kicking that tickle me. This is just what I need when stressed!

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John Boehner is a proud Orange-American
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)