Showing posts with label senior citizens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label senior citizens. Show all posts

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Don't Let Them Destroy Medicare, Vote Them Out!


These are the people who in April of this year voted to replace Medicare with Ryan's voucher plan.  Elections are just around the corner, look for the names of the congressman or woman from your state and kick them out!  

I don't care if they are Republicans, Democrats or Independents, that is why I didn't specify their Party affiliation... But for some strange reason, I think they're all Republicans.  

We must replace each and everyone of them with Progressives, Liberals or  Independents.  We have to help our country move forward and our President by providing him with a Congress that will work with him and not against him.  A Congress that will care for all Americans, regardless of Party instead of the Congress we have now that cares not for the American people or the country but for Corporate America.  We have complained, we have been outraged, well now is our opportunity to do something about it.  These elections are extremely important,  vote and vote for America.  Vote Democratic all the way down the ballot.

Remind your friends and families who voted in favor of private insurance companies and against our seniors, your vote counts... USE IT!

ALABAMA
Robert B. Adelholt
Spencer Bachus
Jo Bonner
Mo Brooks
Martha Roby
Mike D. Rogers

ALASKA
Don Young

ARKANSAS
Rick Crawford
Tim Griffin
Steve Womack

ARIZONA
Jeff Flake
Trent Franks
Paul Gosar
Ben Quayle
David Schweikert

CALIFORNIA
Brian P. Bilbray
Mary Bono Mack
Ken Calvert
John Campbell
Jeffrey Denham
David Dreier
Elton Gallegly
Wally Herger
Duncan D. Hunter
Darrell Issa
Jerry Lewis
Kevin McCarthy
Tom McClintock
Howard P. McKeon
Gary G. Miller
Devin Nunes
Dana Rohrabacher
Ed Royce

COLORADO
Mike Coffman
Cory Gardner
Dough Lamborn
Scott Tipton

FLORIDA
Sandra Adams
Gus Bilirakis
Vern Buchanan
Ander Crenshaw
Mario Diaz-Balart
Connie Mack
John L. Mica
Jeff Miller
Richard Nugent
Bill Posey
David Rivera
Tom Rooney
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Dennis Ross
Steve Southerland
Cliff Stearns
Daniel Webster
Allen West
C.W. Bill Young

GEORGIA
Paul Broun
Phil Gingrey
Tom Graves
Jack Kingston
Tom Price
Austin Scott
Lynn Westmoreland
Rob Woodall

IDAHO
Raul Labrador
Mike Simpson

ILLINOIS
Judy Biggert
Robert Dold
Randy Hultgren
Timothy V. Johnson
Adam Kinzinger
Donald Manzullo
Peter Roskam
Bobby Schilling
Aaron Schock
John Shimkus
Joe Walsh

INDIANA
Larry Bucshon
Dan Burton
Mike Pence
Todd Rokita
Marlin Stutzman
Todd Young

IOWA
Steve King
Tom Latham

KANSAS
Tim Huelskamp
Lynn Jenkins
Mike Pompeo
Kevin Yoder

KENTUCKY
Geoff Davis
Brett Guthrie
Harold Rogers
Edward Whitfield

LOUSIANA
Rodney Alexander
Charles Boustany Jr.
Bill Cassidy
John Fleming
Jeff Landry
Steve Scalise

MARYLAND
Roscoe G. Barlett
Andy Harris

MICHIGAN
Justin Amash
Dan Benishek
Dave Camp
Bill Huizenga
Thaddeus McCotter
Candice S. Miller
Mike Rogers
Fred Upton
Tim Walberg

MINNESOTA
Michele Bachmann
Chip Cravaack
John Kline
Erick Paulsen

MISSISSIPPI
Gregg Harper
Alan Nunnelee
Steven Palazzo

MISSOURI
Todd Akin
Jo Ann Emerson
Sam Graves
Vicky Hartzler
Billy Long
Blaine Luetkemeyer

NEBRASKA
Jeff Fortenberry
Adrian Smith
Lee Terry

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Charles F. Bass
Frank Guinta

NEW JERSEY
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Scott Garrett
Leonard Lance
Frank A. LoBiondo
Jon Runyan
Christopher H. Smith

NEW MEXICO
Steve Pearce

NEVADA
Joe Heck
Dean Heller

NEW YORK
Ann Marie Buerkle
Chris Gibson
Mike Grimm
Richard Hanna
Nan Hayworth
Peter T. King
Tom Reed

NORTH CAROLINA
Howard Coble
Renee Ellmers
Virginia Foxx
Patrick T. McHenry
Sue Myrick

NORTH DAKOTA
Rick Berg

OHIO
Steve Austria
Steven J. Chabot
Bob Gibbs
Bill Johnson
Jim Jordan
Steven C. LaTourette
Robert E. Latta
Jim Renacci
Jean Schmidt
Steve Stivers
Pat Tiberi
Michael R. Turner

OKLAHOMA
Tom Cole
James Lankford
Frank D. Lucas
John Sullivan

OREGON
Greg Walden

PENNSYLVANIA
Lou Barletta
Charlie Dent
Michael G. Fitzpatrick
Mike Kelly
Tom Marino
Pat Meehan
Tim Murphy
Joe Pitts
Todd R. Platts
Bill Shuster
Glenn Thompson

SOUTH CAROLINA
Jeffrey Duncan
Trey Gowdy
Mick Mulvaney
Tim Scott
Joe Wilson

SOUTH DAKOTA
Kristi Noem

TENNESSEE
Diane Black
Marsha Blackburn
Scott DesJarlais
John J. Duncan Jr.
Stephen Fincher
Chuck Flesichmann
Phil Roe

TEXAS
Joe L. Barton
Kevin Brady
Michael C. Burgess
Francisco Canseco
John Carter
K. Michael Conaway
John Culberson
Blake Farenthold
Bill Flores
Louie Gohmert
Kay Granger
Ralph M. Hall
Jeb Hersarling
Sam Johnson
Kenny Marchant
Michael McCaul
Randy Neugebauer
Pete Olson
Ted Poe
Pete Sessions
Lamar Smith
William M. Thornberry

UTAH
Rob Bishop
Jason Chaffetz

VIRGINIA
Eric Cantor
J. Randy Forbes
Robert W. Goodlatte
Morgan Griffith
Robert Hurt
Scott Rigell
Robert J. Wittman
Frank R. Wolf

WASHINGTON
Doc Hastings
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Cath McMorris Rodgers

WEST VIRGINIA
Shelley Moore Capito

WISCONSIN
Sean Duffy
Tom Petri
Reid Ribble
Paul D. Ryan
F. James Sensenbrenner

WYOMING
Cynthia M. Lummis

Source: http://www.medicareresources.org/blog/2011/04/18/who-voted-to-kill-medicare-fight-back/
Contact your congressmen: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

Monday, March 26, 2012

Let’s play ball!


It is incredible how many people are still protesting against the Health Care Reform Act and carrying big signs denouncing the unconstitutionality or their outrage for this bill.

I can understand up to a point that the people feel upset that they will be forced to get health insurance. What I can’t understand is their outcry that they don’t want government to get involved in their health issues… That outrage of course lasts until they reach their golden years and retire. The sad thing is, these seniors and retirees that are screaming that they don’t want government “making their health care decisions” have Medicare, and God forbid that someone takes that away from them! What do these people think Medicare is? Medicare is what all of us would have been entitled to if it wasn’t for all the morons that were against single payer or public option. The stigma of the government involved in our health issues was greater than the benefits we could have enjoyed.

Since we couldn’t get the public option or single payer because of all the false allegations that the political liars used to instill fear on the elderly and the gullible, we now have to pay for private insurance… because the rights of the health insurance companies were far more important than our own personal interests.  We have the Tea Party and Republicans to thank for that one. The same people that didn’t want to have a single payer or public option and don’t want to be forced to get health insurance claiming it is unconstitutional. Why is health insurance unconstitutional and not, let’s say, automobile insurance? Why is it that health insurance is an evil thing that government shouldn’t mandate or impose on all of us when not having it affects us ALL yet, it is OK to be forced to have auto insurance for every single vehicle we own?  Why is it OK for one type of enforced insurance but not the other?

When a person that doesn’t have health insurance is hospitalized and can't or won't pay the bill, we end up ‘picking up’ that tab. Every year hospitals nationwide ‘lose’ millions of dollars in unpaid balances incurred by uninsured people incapable or unwilling to pay their debt. The reality is that no hospital really loses money, they just increase the price of their services making all of us that have insurance to pay for those that didn’t. And all of us, those that incurred in the bill and those who see their premium increase pay again in the form of taxes, the government assumes a lot of those loses... kind of a bail out for hospitals.

If you have an automobile or motorcycle and you have a traffic accident, chances are that there will be two cars involved.  Usually, the person that hits pay for the repairs or medical needs of the injured through their insurance and their insurance premiums most likely will increase when they renew their policies.  Automobile insurance companies raise the premiums nationwide according to the accident ratio within that city or state.  Most of us hate them, but since it is the law to have it, we conform... Except if you live in New Hampshire where having automobile insurance it's an option, I think I will move there!

It seems that for Americans protecting an object is far more important than protecting themselves.  We hear people say all the time when their vehicles have been stolen things like "thank God I had insurance!"or "I don't worry because I'm insured."  Why don't they think the same way when it comes to their own person, their own bodies?  Once again, an object is far more important than a person.  No wonder they granted "personhood" status to corporations and we, the workers, have become the property of these corporations!

And now, here we are again fighting against the “Obamacare” as it has been "baptized". This bill has been taken to the Supreme Court to deem it unconstitutional.  It is sad that most likely they will win and repeal the law, after all the Supreme Justices enjoy having Public Option until the day they die.

I believe that is a shame. Many people that could be insured with preexisting conditions will  have no insurance and that includes babies and children. These people once again will have no insurance and perhaps due to being uninsured they may lose their lives.  We can place this injustice on those same people that are constantly yelling how precious every life is: the pro-life people. Once again they have proven that the only life they care for are the one before it passes the birth canal, once you take a breath you are on your own!


I suggest that all the judges and politicians that are fighting and claiming Obamacare as unconstitutional to have their insurance revoked. No more government insurance for them since it is so evil. We progressives and liberals are always trying to work for the people and if these people don’t want insurance especially insurance provided by the government, then we should take that burden away from them. The same can be said about all the senior citizens that have fought so vehemently against government subsidized insurance; let’s cancel their Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps. What do they think those are, manna?  I am sure they will be thrilled since in their opinion they do not use any government assistance and want government out of their lives, let’s be nice and give them what they want.

Let’s repeal Obamacare but do what I suggest above. All congressmen that are against Obamacare, revoke their insurance. Every citizen that has signed anything against Obamacare, let’s cancel his or her government provided insurance. Let’s start playing their game. Let's begin by automatically canceling health insurance of all the fat cats in Congress that have done nothing but inflict fear in their constituents and of all the seniors that claim that government should stay away from their health insurance.  When they stop getting these benefits, they will be begging for the Single Payer Option, not Obamacare which is the watered down version of what was original intended… Let the games begin!