Remember the health care public option ad? I do, it basically turned the American people against ObamaCare. Club Soda wrote about this ad a few months ago. Well, the socialists at MoveOn.org haven’t moved on, they still believe Americans want the public option and they’ve updated the video.
Just so no one is confused the “evil insurance companies” have endorsed ObamaCare. They love the plan because it forces people to get insurance at higher premiums. If you’re an insurance company it doesn’t get any better than that.
While there’s still a possibility that the Senate bill can be passed through reconciliation there’s no way the public option is on the table. Time to take a reality pill MoveOn.org.
Have you seen the new commercial with Heather Graham promoting universal health care? In it, Heather races a bunch of fat, lazy people in what appears to be the 100-yard dash. The lovely and lithe Heather represents The Public Option (it says so on her race tag). The lovable but lazy fat people represent the private health insurance market.
I love this commercial produced by MoveOn.org, for both the obvious and more subtle reasons. But let’s get right to the subtle reasons since they’re, well… subtle.
MoveOn got the symbolism backwards, which is always awesome. In my dealings with government at the local, state and federal levels, I’ve never had the “Heather Graham” experience. I’ve certainly had the “Jabba the Hut” experience, and I don’t expect that will change in the near future.
Has any government program ever conjured up the image of a fleet-footed goddess? I’ve repeatedly encountered this figurative goddess in the private market, but never in the public sector, where I always run into the bloated Star Wars figure… Boonowa tweepie, Han Solo! Ha ha ha ha ha!
I’m also huge fan of the old “do as I say, not as I do” mentality, particularly when it comes from pampered, filthy rich celebrities. In this case, Heather promotes the idea that we – “we” being the unwashed, non-celebrity masses – should be part of a rationed system in which we may or may not get the treatment we need.
Meanwhile, Heather and her peers will still receive the finest health care the world has to offer. Having loads of money tends to shield you from the consequences of your pet social engineering projects. “Let them wait in line!” will join “Let them drive clown cars!” as the rallying cries for our 21st Century Marie Antoinettes.
How I enjoy being told by celebrities to grin and bear it while they merely grin it! They know what’s best for us… and for them. I may not get that MRI for two years, but I should feel so much better that I’m being forced by the state to make sacrifices for the common good as we edge ever closer to Utopia.
Though we all know Utopia is really a small town in Texas, Heather Graham’s Utopia includes making sure that I can’t have what she has. Nor does any American, other than those who are Graham-approved, have the opportunity to have what she has.
Socialists from the beginning have always pitted the haves against the have-nots; it’s how they agitate for socialist “reform” and revolution. The great irony of this tactic, that’s maybe less ironic and more purposeful, is how power and wealth tends to accumulate in fewer hands in these Utopian systems. Oh well, at least I’ll be able to stand in line with the rest of the proletariat.
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