Today’s Asshole Is US Rep. Bob Inglis
In case you need yet more proof that those in Congress are out of touch with reality, Greenville, South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis (Republican) has blamed the high cost of health care in America — due to people OVERUSING health care by people who have any kind of health insurance:
“The problem is that someone else (our insurance company) is picking up the check,” said Inglis, later adding: “If I’m spending someone else’s money, I’ll spend freely.”
Apparantly, Inglis thinks that it’s a barrel of fun going to the hospital for a battery of nuerological tests. Of course, all of us with headaches and migraines think, “Hmm. I’ve got a day off coming up. How shall I use it? I could go shopping, get drunk or –hey! I know what — I’ll get an unnecessary colonoscopy.”
What planet is this guy from? It surely isn’t ours. Perhaps he was born in a parallel world and somehow crossed between worlds without knowing it. Perhaps he shaved off his goatee, like the goatee like Mr. Spock sports in the Mirror Universe. As writer Paul Hyde points out, South Carolina has over 700,000 people who can’t afford health insurance at all — and yet health care costs are just as bad in South Carolina than in any other stste that has less than 700,000 who can’t afford health care.
The reason the cost of health care is completely out of reach for the average American is due to the greed of Big Pharma and insurance compnaines who make doctors and hospitals take out incredibly expensive claims in order to practice medicine. And I say that as someone who is currently in the midst of a battle with Medicaid just to pay for my Prozac (the most prescribed medicine on the planet). I made only $5100 last year. Yeah, I’d love to go blow twelve hours getting a CAT scan to help better determine what’s going on with my migraines just to be told that everything looks normal.
The American public LOVES to do that. I wonder if anyone else in Congress believe this nonsense?
Right. I’m taking a deep breath now. Trying to get a grip.
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Back to the usual tomorrow.
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