Whatever the cause of Rush Limbaugh's chest pains, they haven't been as fatal as some have reported but whether or not angina is involved, we can be sure they weren't pangs of conscience. His web site thanks us for our prayers ( if only he could hear mine) and is, as always, jam packed and bloated with fear mongering, dire predictions and apocalyptic warnings that if we don't "fight like hell" our country will be changed forever. Let's hope.
I recently read that only about 5% of those admitted to hospitals with chest pains die within a year, so one important and very needed change is probably not going to happen -- all the more so since most billionaires can not only afford health insurance but can afford to do without it. If you or I had rendered ourselves uninsurable through a lifetime of belly bustin' burgers, cigars, uppers, downers, pain killers and beer we might have a rather different experience and a bit less cause for optimism.
Yes, we have to fight like hell to stop this "buffoonery" says Rush about Bob Menendez' call to set aside ideology, turn off Limbaugh and pass the legislation that most Americans want. But Congress is ignoring the will of the people -- or at least the minority of the people he represents, says Rush. Public health insurance will change America forever -- forever! Government will "take over" health care just the way it took over all those plans you made for retirement. ( huh?)
Just the way Veteran's benefits took over - well whatever they took over and medicare helped keep exploding profits from eating up every last dime retired people have set aside.
It's a tenet of Buddhism, and a nice bit of wisdom, that change is constant and suffering is universal when we refuse to accept it. It's too bad in this case that Rush's refusal to let go of failed 19th century ideas will cause more suffering for everyone else than it will for him. We have been changing from the outset in terms of making the US a better place to live for more of its people and Rush has been a major clot in the artery of truth and justice and decency.
No, I'm not going to descend to his level and wish him an immediate death, in fact I hope he lives long enough to see that not one dire thing he has predicted has materialized and that he's been pretty much wrong about every thing he's said -- and until that happens, I hope those pains continue to hurt like hell.
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Don't you have to have an actual heart to have a heart attack? He also said: "The treatment I received [at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu] was the best that the world has to offer...I don't think there's one thing wrong with the American health care system. It is working just fine." Of course the end of that statement really is "if you have good health insurance." Like I said you need a heart before it can attack you and just like the Grinch who stole Christmas, (the first war on Christmas?) he has an empty space where his heart should be.
"No, I'm not going to descend to his level and wish him an immediate death"
My buds didn't take too kindly to that idea on my blog. Actually I think it pissed them off a bit. I detest the buffoon but I'm not crazy about sounding like a wingnut. They're all so stupid, why in God's name would I want to sound like them?
Good post and good blog.
A couple of us have suggested that this whole affair was fake. He is first and foremost a showmsn.
I can't believe there's any empty space in that bloated carcass, but I'm also suspicious that there may be some political motivation here.
I wonder if he'd tell us how good health care is if he'd had to wait 12 hours in a county hospital emergency room before being seen.
I wonder does he have health insurance with his history of criminal behavior and drug use -- not to mention his medical draft deferment. He's sort of a 450 pound pre-existing condition.
But as I said, he has so much money it doesn't matter and if everyone else doesn't, why, that's their fault.
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