Crazy Wingnut Healthcare Attacks Exposed

[proud2BlibKansan]

The other day, I overheard a random "Republican analyst" on MSNBC's The Ed Show suggest that the public option should never be implemented because of the DMV. This was her whole thing. The DMV. According to her logic, the DMV, which is run by state governments, is really slow and awful and therefore the public option would force us to wait in line for medical treatment.

My first reaction was that this lady has clearly never been to an emergency room. When I crashed while cycling last year, I waited in an ER exam room with a fractured T10 for nearly two hours before a doctor popped into the room. And I was pretty lucky to be seen so quickly. Contrastingly, I've never once waited in line at a DMV for any longer than 10 or 15 minutes in my entire life.

The last time I renewed my driver's license, it took less than five minutes. If I ever have the privilege of sitting in a doctor's office waiting room and, subsequently, the exam room, for less than five minutes I'll voluntarily pay triple the fee and send the doctor an enormous gift basket filled with, you know, a Lexus.

All in all, we can only wish that private healthcare was as efficient and speedy as the DMV.

But this DMV crap on a stick is only one of many crazy attacks against the president's healthcare reform agenda and the public option. Predictably, as healthcare reform grows larger in the window, the claims from the far-right are becoming increasingly bizarre and ridiculous, topping, in some cases, the psychotic claims of, say, the Obama birthers.

more . . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/crazy-wingnut-healthcare_b_243075.html

[spanone]

1. i saw that. she was out of her mind. they are doing anything to scare the people.

true information doesn't play into politics at all

[Why Syzygy]

2. You know..

when I was a conservative way back when, I went to a Martin Frost town hall meeting to voice my objection to "socialized medicine". He said we weren't going to have socialized medicine. The thing is, I cannot even remember WHY I was opposed to the idea, other than one of the conservative sources told me I should be. I cannot imagine.

I'm sure most of the general population who are opposed to it are just as I was in those days.
Not thinking for themselves.

[EC]

3. Well duh...

Compare the many doctors, hospitals and clinics with the many they employ to take care of you to the 10 or so clerks at the DMV taking care of you...the arguement has no logical basis...