{"id":13856,"date":"2009-08-21T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T16:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13856"},"modified":"2009-08-21T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T16:04:03","slug":"that-republican-conspiracy-against-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13856","title":{"rendered":"That Republican conspiracy against healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama told a talk show host this morning that he sees a Republican conspiracy against him and not necessarily against his health care plan (Washington Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

“I think early on, a decision was made by the Republican leadership that said, ‘Look, let’s not give him a victory, maybe we can have a replay of 1993, ’94, when Clinton came in, he failed on health care and then we won in the mid-term elections and we got the majority. And I think there are some folks who are taking a page out that playbook,” the president said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So our opposition to his health care plan is because we don’t like him – everything is about him these days. Except that’s not necessarily true in my case – and I suspect, it’s not true in your case either.<\/p>\n

Next month, I turn 54 years old, and I began planning for my retirement health care when I was 19 when I joined the Army. I kind of liked the idea that when I broke my hand in basic training, the Army provided me with medical attention. It wasn’t the best, but it worked. OK, so I have one crooked finger, now. I could still shoot straight. <\/p>\n

A few years later, I got married and my son was born a year later. Health care for him was almost free. It was one of the things I considered when I reenlisted. I accepted my low pay because the Army took care of my family health-wise. So that became part of my old-age planning.<\/p>\n

Now, as I near my final retirement, this Obama fellow tells me, after paying for my own health care with my youth, I owe for someone else’s health care. Someone who wouldn’t join the military, someone who is just sitting on their ass waiting for Obama to hand them some free health care – at my expense.<\/p>\n

Am I worried Obama will succeed at changing my health care system? Not particularly – I have the VSOs sticking up for me which is I why I joined a few. What I’m most worried about is that while my income is reduced after I retire, I’m going to be saddled with paying for some derelict’s family health care. <\/p>\n

Am I being selfish? Not as selfish as that lazy SOB who won’t insure his own family. And I don’t want to hear that he’s too poor to afford insurance for his family – if he’s poor, why is he dragging kids into his poverty? <\/p>\n

Not everyone in America has military health care – yet 86% of people living in this country are covered by their own health insurance. We were all responsible and took care of our respective families, how does that make us responsible for some other schlub’s poor choices? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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