http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_12/sick_people_and_the_innocent_i048071.php
Being here in Georgia for a while has made me more acutely aware than before of the particularly exotic and uninhibited brand of Republican officeholders this state now breeds. Sure, it’s hard to miss the antics of a Paul Broun, Jr., even out there in California. But today we learn that longtime pol Ralph Hudgens, who is currently serving as State Insurance Commissioner, is capable of a howler himself, as reflected by this speech to a Republican women’s group last month
The robust laughs of Hudgen’s audience when he compared pre-existing condition coverage to an ex post facto request for auto insurance collision coverage after a motorist causes a wreck is about as disgusting as the stupid analogy itself.Since he’s an insurance regulator and all, you’d think Hudgens might be aware that the issue here is not some fresh request for coverage after a condition is incurred,but withdrawals of existing coverage by insurers when the insured gets sick, or the refusal to issue a policy when someone is forced into the individual market by, say, the loss of a job or an employer cancelling employee health benefits. Beyond that, of course, comparing getting sick to causing a car wreck is unfathomably dumb and immoral.
we and me spend time pointing out the skulduggery of the republicans but is that misplaced? they can only do what we let them. they say racist things the crowd cheers if they never say it then they would not cheer and not support them so who really is hurting America those that say these things or those that give them the incentive to?
Most Republicans dance around the pre-existing condition issue, either pretending to favor non-discrimination even as they oppose the ACA provision outlawing it and favor "interstate sales" that would negate state regulations restricting discrimination.Often they rely on the ragged expedient of state-run "high-risk pools" that create a ghetto of crappy and expensive policies for those denied insurance in the market-place. But leave it to a Georgia Republican to come right out and label sick people denied health insurance as malefactors seeking to defraud poor innocent insurance companies.
these are the things that ACA will stop this is the at the top of the list of why they want to kill it deregulation, they psych us out with "they are taking our freedoms" well for those who agree they are referring to their freedom to shortcut and pollute and walk in and out of your pocket at will, they are not your friends they are our predators and "we the people" their prey. recognize and ask yourself who's zoomin' who?
