Friday, May 05, 2017

The LuLac Edition #3489, May 5th, 2017

CONGRATS TO THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS:
YOU OWN HEALTH CARE 
NOW!!!!
If you are a disabled person on Medicaid, Medicare, or an older person living in Pennsylvania, the REPUBLICAN Congress has screwed you. Now you know what the REPUBLICAN party thinks of you.
The House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE ACA, or Obamacare. This is a a bill that would make drastic cuts to Medicaid, end Medicaid expansion, and increases health care costs for Pennsylvanians. 
The AHCA makes drastic cuts to Medicaid, a program in which 43 percent of enrollees are children or young adults. Those federal funding cuts will 'trickle down' to the state, adding $2-3 billion in annual costs to our already-strained state budget.
For average Pennsylvanians, particularly those over 50 and who are sick, the costs of obtaining health coverage will skyrocket. New potential surcharges for pre-existing conditions along increased premiums and decreased financial assistance with plans that can charge at least five times more than younger individuals will essentially lock out people from the critical care they need.
The REPUBLICAN party now OWN this. Some are looking to the Senate to fix it and save their political asses. Whatever the Senate does, remember this. This REPUBLICAN HOUSE has turned its back on disabled children. They preach about the fetus in the womb but baby, once you’re out of that birth canal, THE REPUBLICANS say you are on YOUR OWN child.
But hey, the President said that the Senate will make it bigger and better than the wonderful piece of legislation that passed yesterday.
He then said perhaps the United States should do something similar to Australia’s health care plan which his right wing co cohorts have always called Socialized Medicine.
Donald thinks it’s fine so what they hey.
Don’t fear though, someone will explain what he really meant.
In the meantime, THE REPUBLICAN Congress has opted out of Obama care and gave you their version. (PHAN, LuLac)

DEMS CRITICIZED FOR SINGING STEAM SONG

The REPUBLICAN Congressional members got their little feelings hurt because some Democrats began to sing that one hit wonder from 69-70 by Steam, “Na Na Na, Hey, Hey Goodbye”.
They said it was unseemly. Hysterical that this party disrespected Congressman Marjorie Margolis Mezvinsky when she voted for a budget bill in 1994. She lost but pretty much has moved on.
The cry baby REPUBLICANS though, have always got pleasure by beating up on women in politics. Now their little, itty bitty feelings are hurt.
Boo ****ing Hoo.



ALAN SHEPHARD’S FIRST FLIGHT @ 56
Alan Shepard (Photo: NASA)
It was 56 years ago today that Alan Shephard went into space. The Mercury Astronaut became the first American to leave the bonds of earth.
He was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in May 1961 he made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. His craft entered space, but did not achieve orbit. He became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space, and the first person to manually control the orientation of his spacecraft. In the final stages of Project Mercury, Shepard was scheduled to pilot the Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10), which was planned as a three-day mission. He named Mercury Spacecraft 15B Freedom 7 II in honor of his first spacecraft, but the mission was cancelled.
Faced with intense competition from the other astronauts, particularly John Glenn, Shepard quit smoking, and adopted Glenn's habit of taking a morning jog, although he did not go so far as to give up the cocktails or the philandering. On January 19, 1961, Robert R. Gilruth, the director of NASA's Space Task Group, informed the seven astronauts that Shepard had been chosen for the first American manned mission into space. Shepard later recalled Louise's response when he told her that she had her arms around the man who would be the first man in space: "Who let a Russian in here?" During training he flew 120 simulated flights. Although his flight was originally scheduled for April 26, 1960, it was postponed several times by unplanned preparatory work, initially to December 5, 1960, then mid-January 1961, March 6, 1961, April 25, 1961, May 2, 1961, and finally to May 5, 1961.
In the final stages of Project Mercury, Shepard was scheduled to pilot the Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10), which was planned as a three-day mission. He named Mercury Spacecraft 15B Freedom 7 II in honor of his first spacecraft, but the mission was cancelled.
Shepard was designated as the commander of the first manned Project Gemini mission, but was grounded in 1963 due to Ménière's disease, an inner-ear ailment that caused episodes of extreme dizziness and nausea. This was surgically corrected in 1969, and in 1971, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the Apollo Lunar ModuleAntares to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions. At age 47, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, and the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to do so. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface. He was Chief of the Astronaut Office from November 1963 to July 1969 (the approximate period of his grounding), and from June 1971 until his retirement from the United States Navy and NASA on August 1, 1974. He was promoted to rear admiral on August 25, 1971, the first astronaut to reach that rank. (Wikipedia.com)



BLOGFEST THIS SATURDAY 

MAY 6th, 2017 

OLD TYME CHARLIE'S

RIVER ROAD, PLAINS, PA. 

CANDIDATES, VISITORS, EVERYONE WELCOME!!!!!

12 Comments:

At 8:44 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Congrats to Marino and Barletta for selling us down the river. If they feel sick about it, they have that taxpayer-provided health insurance ro use.

 
At 6:39 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

8:44 AM,
I agree. These same faker Congress people need to be able to buy what we buy.
Not the sweet deals they get.
Same for their staff people too.

 
At 12:18 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...


Here come the cry babies. It is not the role of government to provide health insurance. It is like anything in life; if you can afford something, you have access, if you can't you don't. Life is so ****ing precious, yet the same whiners don't make an effort to take care of their own health.
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People aren't willing to do even the simplest things to care for themselves, yet they clamor for all citizens to pony up for the care they need, usually caused by their own irresponsible behavior. I think the high risk pools are a good idea,and the obese, the smokers and the drunks all need to be piled into that group. Of the leading causes of disease in this country, 3 are all in the hands of the individual, yet, not a ****ing one does a thing.

 
At 10:57 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

12:18, you must be a lot of fun at parties! I'm gonna guess that you have plenty of money and no health problems (apart from being born without a heart and brain, that is). Amirite or amirite?

But hey, why even pay for those high-risk pools? After all, a subsidy is a subsidy--except when YOU'RE the one being subsidized, of course.

What's nice about your attitude is that as the GOP finally figures out how to move forward the sort of crap you advocate, all of us smokers, preggies, drunks, and fatties--OK, let's throw in the three or four who are blameless--are going to show you just how much we appreciate those politicians who believe their job is to let us die.

See you at the election!

 
At 12:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with 12:18am's points. It is very apparent in many people.
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American's have a very passive approach to their own health and well being. Many cancer survivors have poor diets, even though diet is such a large contributor to relapses. We continue to create a dependent class, but to what end? Keeping the worst of society alive and functioning, no matter what the expense?

 
At 1:00 PM, Blogger David Yonki said...

We continue to create a dependent class, but to what end? Keeping the worst of society alive and functioning, no matter what the expense?

IN RESPONSE

Hey Adolph, +really? The worst of society. I hope you never have to deal with an aging parent or spouse who has ALS or Alzheimer's. I hope you never run into a situation where you have a disabled child. I hope your significant other doesn't get a condition that makes them less than perfect.
We take care of ALL people because this is what Americans do. As a mater of fact this is what most civilized people in the world do.
No matter the expense? Well when we stop giving tax breaks to the 1% who are log hogs at the trough, when we stop spending millions on the political class, when we stop wasting money on multiple investigations...when we stop all that.....then maybe I might, barely, entertain your opinion. MIGHT.

 
At 11:29 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's NOT Health Care, it's not health insurance.
Its an entitlement best described as Healthware (health-based welfare).
Holding out until pre-existing conditions are included is like buying car insurance for your '68 Camaro that has a crushed front end and expecting Allstate to fix it.

 
At 2:14 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Everyone dies. Allowing nature to take its course is not the same as Hitler gassing people. Artificially extending life to those who don't appreciate their second chance is a waste of money. How many cancer survivors do you know who still engage in risky behavior? Plenty. Lung cancer survivors still smoke, or vape. Colon cancer survivors eat crap food and ingest foods infected with artificial flavorings, colorings and sweeteners. But, if the cancer returns, they run crying SAVE ME, and everyone better pay for it. But were unwilling to lift a finger to help themselves. I am not advocating for them to be slaughtered, but if they can't afford to care for themselves, and have no concern for caring for themselves other than running to the doctor and using health insurance subsidized by others, then I am sorry, I have no sympathy.
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I know, and understand you will edit out the above, but it is making a specific point, not a generalization that appears when you take it out of context.
and as for you 1057..
all of us smokers, preggies, drunks, and fatties--OK, let's throw in the three or four who are blameless--are going to show you just how much we appreciate those politicians who believe their job is to let us die...
Sorry, except for the blameless, you are the ones to blame for your condition, not the politicians. But your brain is probably so soaked in alcohol, you don't even get it, that you can do something, yet choose not to, but expect others to bail you out for your irresponsibility. To you I say, go **** yourself. Push away from the table, put out the cancer stick, stop polluting your body with garbage, and take a look in the mirror. The end result of your choices, is your fault.

 
At 4:40 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh my, 2:14. Your swastika is showing. Apparently you don't know how--or care--to separate the blameless, who you also would abandon, from all those other alleged reprobates.

Please, keep talking. It's always good to shed light on what the GOP is trying to do. Democracy will take care of this.

 
At 6:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

4:40 PM, yes having people accept responsibility for their choices and actions is so un-American.
The simple fact is that most health issues, and chronic disease, are not blameless. They are caused by simpletons who do not take care of themselves. I tried to give a very specific example, but Yonki, understandably, keeps editing it out. It is hard to make a specific point without it.

 
At 8:40 AM, Blogger David Yonki said...

They are caused by simpletons who do not take care of themselves. I tried to give a very specific example, but Yonki, understandably, keeps editing it out. It is hard to make a specific point without it.

IN RESPONSE

Okay, that edit stands but for the readers let me expand your thought with an example.
A guy or woman has type 2 diabetes. He or she gets three toes amputated.
He is given a stipend by a health care faculty to get lean protein, vegetables, grains and fruits and change his diet.
Instead he blows it all on Little Caesar's and Primo Hoagies along with a big Sam's Club bag of pork rinds.
Two years later he or she has to get other toes amputated because he or she didn't heed the first warning.
He or she did not take responsibility for themselves is your point.
Are you satisfied with that explaination which replaces my edit?

 
At 1:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

6:34, I appreciate your point--so much that I hope you and your GOP friends continue to emphasize how those with pre-existing conditions should be thrown in the ditch. Voters always need good information!

 

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