We'd just spent 4 of the last 5 days at MD Anderson for tests and appointments and whatnot. Not consecutively- because of how the appointments had to fall we had a few on Monday, and one on Thursday, so we drove down Sunday and came home late Monday and drove down again yesterday and home today. Because it was cheaper to drive it twice than pay for an additional 2 nights in the hotel.
Fiscally sensible, emotionally and physically suicidal.
Therefore, I was
Now, we don't have any of that new-fangled satellite radio in the car, so we have to depend on AM stations.
There is no such thing as a liberal radio show on the AM stations. None. You gotcher Rush and yer Sean and yer Dr. Laura's and yer bible thumpers. That's the whole show.
Must be that Liberal-controlled media we're always hearing about...
Rush was on.
Now, I admit I listened to Rush years ago when I was a Republican, and even then Rush was ridiculous. My best friend and I would listen every day at work and it was basically a drinking game using whatever 'button-pushing' word he was into that week.
It was a very casual workplace.
Rush is still using 'button-pushing' words- today's was "Regime". As in "the Obama Regime". He used it a minimum of every five minutes. Just darling.
But that wasn't the highlight of the show.
The highlight was a caller who suggested that all the Dittoheads inundate the healthcare website and phone lines...just to mess them up even farther. Because it would be a complete hoot to make sure that no one who is really looking for health insurance options to get through...to prove that Obamacare is a clusterfuck that can't even get beyond the initial phase.
Well, Rush admitted that as fun as that would be, it was unnecessary because it's probably being messed up on purpose to deceive the American people about how awful Obamacare will really be, so that it'll be too late by the time we all realize it, blah blah blah de blah.
But I wasn't really listening to that part.
Oh, ya- because it was all bullshit and smoke and mirrors and the ever-dependable Rush et al ploy of stating the exact opposite of the truth and then saying "Trust me!" But that's not what really upset me- I'm used to all that crap.
Maybe it was because we'd just spent days in the bowels of the cancer hospital...again.
Maybe it was because we've had over a decade of American Healthcare dictating our family life.
But the idea that anyone would think it would be 'a hoot' and justifiable; nay- patriotic behavior to willfully gum up the lines when there are literally millions of Americans who NEED medical care in a very real life or death way?
That's incomprehensible and reprehensible to me.
This sort of thing proves that conservatives are absolutely becoming callous and heartless bastards.
If this were a one-time deal, it would be bad enough but something that could be excused as 'an isolated incident'.
But it's not. It's rampant and pervasive and horrifying.
When discussing healthcare in this country with conservatives over the last decade, the not-so-subtle and important difference is this- if anyone in their families were to need medical care, I'd be right there demanding that they get it- offering to pay for it through higher taxes if necessary. Because it's a human right.
But reverse the scenario? They are very sorry, but will regretfully stand by while my family dies.
That's not an America I'll settle for.
I guess I'm just a shitty patriot.
To read more about my family's decade-plus in the healthcare system- with insurance, without insurance and on Medicare- please read my journal, "Cancerdance- a love story", available signed from me, or on Kindle or Nook. Full of my sunny disposition and colorful language, it's got the best real-life hero ever born as the main character- my knight in shining armor, my strength, my anchor- my husband.
http://www.sheri-dixon.com/cancer.html
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