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eloquent guest op-ed by

artappraiser — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:50:47 +0000

In reply to Can We Arrest the Congress for Robbery and Attempted Murder?

eloquent guest op-ed by Hilary Yancey over at WaPo:

You say you’re pro-life, but then you want to limit health care for my disabled son

“It’s a good thing he was born to you. Most people would have aborted him.”

The him was my 6-month-old son, Jack, nestled into my arms, held at the angle he preferred — one that wouldn’t cause his tracheotomy tube to torque. His one and only eye remained fixed on me, his one and only ear perked, waiting for what I would say.

In those early days, I heard a lot about what brave parents we were, how no one else could do what we were doing, how anyone else would have aborted him, because abortion is what people do now. We didn’t ask to become a pro-life touchstone, but for many Christians, we became one [....]

Well, alcohol or not, you are

CVille Dem — Tue, 09 May 2017 02:06:39 +0000

In reply to A bit too cut-and-dry for me,

Well, alcohol or not, you are right. As usual.

A bit too cut-and-dry for me,

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 08 May 2017 08:27:00 +0000

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A bit too cut-and-dry for me, though glad for it to get attention.

In this case, with a heart defect, the kid either lives or dies. What about the single 17-year-old who's been encouraged not to get the abortion, and instead gives birth to an autistic or challenged kid with *multiple issues* that will demand loads of daily attention for the next 20, 40 or 60 years - from doctors & therapies to expensive childcare to special schools. And likely won't be covered by insurance.

In January last year, Hillary revealed a comprehensive proposal for helping address autism and similar, and continued to make disabilities a big part of her platform, her convention appearance and her ads, including a nice one on a hearing disability and how ACA & other government initiatives helped address pre-existing conditions, the right to an education, and streamlining access to care without draconian costs.

She got next to 0 credit for this, even though about 1 in 6 voters suffer from a disability, and instead got a good cold splash of water for engaging in "inspiration porn" and taking the voice away from the disabled.

But some good looking youngish rich white TV dude tells of his 72 hours of suspense (which for his wife could be 20 years, depending on the affliction, as women as mothers, wives and daughters carry the unpaid burden of most of our health care), and we're all in, teary-eyed and waving our Bic lighters.

Well we fucked up on this one, didn't we? We were debating a moonshot or going to Mars, single payer for all!!!! while electing the guy who was helping the Visigoths pierce the walls and destroy any semblance of public healthcare or access to abortion or any of the other precarious basics of life.

Jimmy Kimmell isn't going to fix it, nor are the motherfuckers writing a 1-page nothing burger to replace hundreds of pages of painfully compromised policy nor the guy who says "let's not stop with Obamacare [which is largely Hillarycare, get it already], we can do more more more more, why are we giving up?" - its the "unlikeable" establishment wonkish cunt who actually read and wrote policy papers and hosted divisive hearings and showed some initiative and care on the topic for over 40 years.

I wish I were drunk so I could blame writing this on the alcohol.

Bless you for sharing your

artappraiser — Mon, 08 May 2017 05:57:46 +0000

In reply to Can We Arrest the Congress for Robbery and Attempted Murder?

Bless you for sharing your story to help fight this when you've got so much on your plate already.

There is one meme that you touch on in your story that I think is particularly successful across a lot of divides. And that is "insurance that is not really insurance", that is one that angers a lot of people. Not just for health but any other kind of insurance too, car, home, flood, etc..Because it makes a mockery of the word and the concept of being protected against disaster when there is separation into various risk groups.

This is why the Jimmy Kimmel story has had a lot of resonance. He's not a poor person, but people see only that: he had insurance, therefore, a baby born under that insurance should be covered. Forever, period.