A Friend Emailed Me This . . .

Sometimes the most complicated of things can be boiled down very easily.

 Let me get this straight....we're trying to pass a health care

plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't

understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but

exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president that

also is exempt from it and hasn't read it and who smokes,

with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't

pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who

is obese, and financed by a country that's broke.

What the hell could possibly go wrong? 

Comments

[Bob]

Umm... except that Congress not only isn't exempt from it, but Congressmen and their staff are the ONLY people in America that are REQUIRED by the bill to give up their employer-provided healthcare and get their insurance from the exchange.

And what does Obama smoking and the Surgeon General being overweight have to do with health care FINANCIAL policy?

[Dr. Manny]

What does it have to do with healthcare financial policy? Plenty.

I don't want to pay for abortions with my tax dollars. Likewise, I don't want to pay for unhealthy lifestyles of others with my tax dollars. Do you really think smoking and obesity is healthy. I don't.

If Obama wants to suck on weed in the privacy of his own home, fine. I just don't want to pay for his indulgence.

If his Surgeon General wants to gorge on Twinkies, fine. I just don't want to pay for that indulgence.

Both should pay higher premiums to offset their undisciplined lifestyles. Unless, of course you consider these lifestyle choices to be "pre-existing" conditions.

That's what their behavior has to do with health care FINANCIAL policy.