Posted: 10/2/2013 11:36:16 AM EDT
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/10/millions-flee-obamacare.html Millions of Tea Party loyalists fled the United States in the early morning hours today, seeking what one of them called "the American dream of liberty from health care.” Harland Dorrinson, 47, a tire salesman from Lexington, Kentucky, packed up his family and whatever belongings he could fit into his Chevy Suburban just hours before the health-insurance exchanges opened, joining the Tea Party’s Freedom Caravan with one goal in mind: escape from Obamacare. "My father didn’t have health care and neither did my father’s father before him,” he said. "I’ll be damned if I’m going to let my children have it.”  but they did have healthcare. It's called being employed.
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What's funny is that their side has completely owned the argument by making it about "healthcare". It's not. It's health insurance. By not nipping the argument in the bud right fucking there, we let them continue to control the entire conversation.
"You don't want poor people having healthcare!" "No, I don't want to pay for their health insurance premiums by increasing my own. Nor do I want the government's tax enforcement arm taking money from my paycheck simply because I don't want to purchase a product and would rather pay my doctor in cash. Milk is healthy for you. Should you be forced to buy a minimum number of gallons per week, to be verified by a government agency that will reduce your paycheck if you don't buy it?" This is not about healthcare. It never was. |