"Health care is not a need, it's a desire"

[BushOut06]

So sayeth Rush Fathead on his show today.

This is the mentality that we are dealing with here. These folks are so far removed from reality, sitting in their ivory towers, they have no fucking clue what the real world is like. I suppose when some uninsured woman's child needs surgery to fix some life-threatening condition, that's a "desire" and not a "need". Too bad so many people have this "desire" to live - if they would just live their natural lives and die when it's their time to go, we wouldn't be having all these problems, would we?

We need to get these assholes out of office ASAP.

[Robbien]

1. Oxycotin is a need

Everything else is optional.

[BushOut06]

2. Only the best money that drugs can buy for Slimebaugh

How fitting would that be for Rush - to lose all his money, and having to apply for assistance to get his beloved painkillers.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. LOL

:yourock:

[Mythsaje]

3. A former co-worker's son got a debilitating, potentially deadly

ailment (some kind of ulceritus in his intestines) and she was more than 100,000 dollars in debt as of two or so years ago (probably close to 200,000 or more now)...

If there WAS an interested God, he'd bankrupt that fat bastard and show him what it was like. It's hard to get oxycontin and viagra when you're poor.

[blogslut]

5. Ahhh, what's the use

It's Rush. It's not like he is capable of reason.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. No, a Hummer is a desire, but not a need.

A huge house is a desire, but not a need.

A chocolate milk shake is a desire, but not a need.

Botox is a desire, but not a need.

People die without proper health care, that makes it a need.

[aquart]

7. He has health benefits, though, doesn't he?

[lovuian]

8. Christ didn't ask for your HMO card

what kinda Christian is Rush

[FormerDittoHead]

9. Absolutely. If your 2 jobs didn't pay enough for insurance, you can bleed to death on the sidewalk.

That IS how they think...

[no_hypocrisy]

10. I need not to die prematurely and to live without pain or disability.

[BadgerKid]

11. What a short memory he has

Limbaugh admits addiction to pain medication

(snip)

The radio talk show host said he first became addicted to painkillers "some years ago," following spinal surgery. However, he added, "the surgery was unsuccessful and I continued to have severe pain in my lower back and also in my neck due to herniated discs. I am still experiencing that pain."

He had tried to break his dependence in the past and has checked himself into medical facilities twice before, he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/10/10/rush.limbaugh/

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Not a need, but a desire. Mmmmmkay.

[Warpy]

12. Fathead lost a lot of listeners with that one

because even the most looneytarian has to admit that disease is not a consumer decision.

If it were, perhaps health care would belong in the for profit marketplace. We poor and downtrodden could choose to have the occasional head cold, while those more fortunate could have the cardiomyopathy necessitating transplant.

It doesn't work that way. You can't plan it and you are not in control of how or when it happens. You just get sick and need help.

That help is a civil right, not a privilege of extreme wealth.

[gratuitous]

13. Oh, maybe not

The people who listen to Rush probably do think that good health is a consumer decision, and that they have decided they'll never get sick or catch any disease. Because that's a sign of the divine favor that has followed them around all their lives. And by the time they do have a problem, they're not listening to the demented ravings of that fat drug addict anymore.

[sufrommich]

16. "Disease is not a consumer decision."

We should all blanket his e-mail account with that very succinct phrase.

[Lucinda]

14. Is he still around?

I used to hear a lot about Rush from Repub friends and family...funny...they dont mention him at all anymore. :)

[NMMNG]

15. Funny how rich, powerful bastards always think that way

Funny how their stuff is never a "want". :eyes:

[Occulus]

17. I hope Rush gets a benign tumor.

Allow me to clarify.

I am knowingly, willing wishing "ill" upon another human being. I cheerfully do this because the human being in question is a living ball of manure, a piece of filth, and an ugly, ugly waste of space, hypocritical in the extreme, and is by past and likely future statements (represented by him as truth) the absolute worst person in the world.

I kid. I hope Rush lives to be NINETY (and his inoperable but benign tumor grows as a horn from his forehead) so he can see how history treats his anally-cystic ass.