Comments on: Your Mom

By: Nemisis

Nemisis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:25:49 +0000

Provided of course that hospitals and other medical care providers are allowed to deny care, including emergency room care to those that cannot pay.

By: DantheMan

DantheMan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:31:18 +0000

Anyone who receives Tricare coverage fully deserves every benefit it offers, and in my opinion has more than earned that coverage. I hope it has been a good insurance for you and your family, Alec.

By: Amuseinc

Amuseinc — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:06:30 +0000

Kathy, he and his fellow soldiers did on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, France, Germany and everywhere else selfish citizens like you sent him. Some paid the highest price, most sacrificed important time in young lives, and then they hear from conservatives like you how they don't deserve it? You sure are quick to make statements about something you obviously know nothing about.

" TRICARE is the Department of Defense's health care program for members of the uniformed services, their families and survivors."

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:11:15 +0000

So, Alec…who paid your dimes?

By: Alec

Alec — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:52:24 +0000

Good aside DtM. Thanks for that thought. It frustrates me too.

By: DantheMan

DantheMan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:31:19 +0000

As an aside, one of my problems with the modern Republican party is that they don't want abortion to ever be an option for anyone, but then they are also unwilling to fund prenatal care and piss and moan about covering the child through SCHIP once they are born. I see the pro-life view and the no-prenatal funding position as contradictory.

By: DantheMan

DantheMan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:21:39 +0000

Not implying that at all.

In fact, I don't think having kids is about a class. Having kids is about readiness as you define it, and making that choice. The fact you had insurance through Tricare was a fact, and that was one of many factors that made you someone who was able to welcome a child into what sounds like a good environment.

Also, I would suggest that you did afford a birth. Insurance, in your case Tricare, enabled you to pay for a major event with past and future contributions to Tricare's risk pool. Tricare didn't pay for it, the administered payment of your bill. You paid for it, presumably through service to our country.

By: lojasmo

lojasmo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:53:47 +0000

It's not a red herring, it's a straw man. Takes real balls to come up with such an asinine one, too.

By: Alec

Alec — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:52:01 +0000

My wife and I had everything you mentioned when we had a child, but there is no way we could have afforded a birth. Luckily we had government provided health care from Tricare, so we went to the best hospital in the area and didn't pay a dime.

Not covering maternity care will gurantee only the privileged will be able to have kids in a healthy environment. This is shortsighted in the extreme because bad pre-natal and birth care leads to much more expensive things down the road.

A middle class family cannot afford child birth without insurance. You seem to imply that it is irresponsible to have a child unless you can foot all the medical bills yourself.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:21:04 +0000

"Specificity", a new right wing word. A new goal line to reach. The argument can never be won against these asshats because they keep changing their position. Adopting new ones, when the old arguments don't perform. Okay, you want less "specificity", try this on for size. Cover everything for everybody. There all done and at one time, not specific but ultimately specific.