Another Dangerous Encounter With The Tea Party

Commentary By:
Dwight Kehoe
Editor TPATH

February 10, 2014 ~TPATH~ Anyone, left, right or middle, extreme or moderate, who is able to exhibit even a minuscule amount of honesty, would be very hard pressed to deny that everything conservative groups, such as the Tea Party, have been warning about theUnaffordable Health Care Act (ObamaCare) and the devastating impact it would have on America has come true and in spades.

Which reminds me of a brief encounter I had earlier this year with the typical uninformed leftist and do-gooder in an establishment where we are both members.  Consistent with what we find in most people who purchase their compassion for others from any pocket but their own, this gentleman was as clueless as a bucket of dead clams.

Lack of knowledge played no deterring role in his extollment of Ted Cruz’s stance against the healthcare bill.  I listened while he ranted on about how Cruz didn’t care about 40 million Americans who have no healthcare.  He continued to dutifully inform the equally uninformed cadre of blank faces, how  Ted Cruz had no right getting involved in  the healthcare issue because, after all, he was not even in Congress.  Temptation got the better of me so I decided to present this orator with a stealth question or two.  After all, I needed to find out more about this topic and who better to inform me than this guy?

So I asked him, “Mario -this may or  may not be his real name- Mario, can you tell me what is the difference between healthcare and healthcare insurance?”  The blood drained form his face and his eyes betrayed his attempted expression of being the scholarly professor as he realized that that role was about to challenged .

Not quite grasping the intent of the question or for that matter having any idea as to how to answer it, he repeated his point about the 40 million people conservatives, such as Ted Cruz, and no doubt now, your’s truly, didn’t care about.

Not that it was my desire to bury him deeper into the hole of ignorance in which he was standing, but I did shovel this next question at him.  ”Is ObamaCare intended to insure insurance or insure healthcare?”  At this juncture I thought it was probably not a bad thing that ole’ Mario was most likely an anti 2nd Amendment guy, and hopefully a law abiding one.

Having just finished, as work for TPATH, compiling an extensive breakdown and analysis of the Unaffordable Health Care Act, unfortunately for our professor recently turned student, much of what we had done was right on the tip of my shovel, so to speak.

As class began, Mario scoped the room for an escape route.  Two of my associates, quite aware of what Mario was about to endure, quite unintentionally, managed to block the only egress.  It’s priceless to dwell in the dread a liberal feels when he senses his cloudy ideology is about to be confronted with the clarity of fact.  That’s a scary thing dude.

Moving on, he was informed that the 40 million people number he presented was a very inflated number but even if it was accurate it only related to people without healthcare insurance and not people who could not get healthcare.  In fact, there are no Americans who can not get health care if they need it.  As in none.   There are state and federal laws which prohibit hospitals and other facilities from withholding treatment from those who can’t pay.

Then there is that 40 million number of uninsured.  It has been determined, whichever total one uses, that half of those who are uninsured have chosen to be so.   They have decided that they would rather drive a new BMW or take an extra ski trip to the Alps instead buying something they most likely will not need in any one year period.  They have made this decision knowing they had assets that were being put at risk.  Until ObamaCare, that was a risk they could take, if they so chose.

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