Monday, April 5, 2010

I'd like to propose a suggestion for the Tea baggers who don't believe the federal government should mandate health care coverage for its citizens. Follow the letter of the law even if you can't stomach the spirit of the law. Wouldn't it be fairly easy to institute your own health care insurance plan? It could be called "Tea baggers Comprehensive Health and Hospitilization". You could charge some nominal amount for premiums, let's say 1/10 of one cent. Each ten policy holders would constitute group coverage at a cost of only 1 cent. Since, by your own estimations, you number over 60% of the American people, even if we conservatively only counted the adult population of the United States (that's 1 cent multiplied by 220 million people divided by 10 people, or $220,000.00) that should be a hefty enough sum to entice the nations doctors and hospitals and various labs and pharmacies to care for you and your dependents. That,or the sheer strength of your number. This proposal, of course, is only for the sake of argument. Because we know that any Tea bagger, to the degree that they can afford it, even though adamant that the government NOT mandate he or she have health insurance, already has health insurance to cover themselves and their families. So what they are really saying is that those Tea baggers who don't have health coverage because they cannot afford it, have the right to continue not to have health insurance to protect that same right for other Tea baggers who do. In the words of Tom Hank's character in the movie "Big"..."I don't get it".