A Conservative Congress Does Not Ccare

HEAL ON YOUR OWN DIME OR YOU DESREVE TO DIE.

The gavel came down as the new G.O.P. Speaker of The House called the session to order.
“We are here today,” he said in an earnest voice. “To consider the best and most economically efficient way to repeal Obama Care in its entirety and reestablish the old system, which was just fine for everyone that mattered and needed no reform. . .”
Outraged, Mark McCall's mother stood up and shouted at the man. “Needed no reform?! 'Our Policy is prophet' let my precious little boy die of kidney failure when he was a difficult match simply to save money and. . .”
“Silence woman,” said the speaker. “The pathetic losers like you will have your chance to speak, waste of time and air as that is, but I will finish speaking first. The old system which was just fine for everyone that mattered and needed no reform because those it let die would never have been productive members of society anyway and so did and do not matter. As I understand it, however, there are some sob stories which we are obliged to hear first, for some bleeding heart compassion reason or something.”
“At least we liberals have hearts that are capable of bleeding rather than ones of solid stone or none at all,” someone on the other side of the isle shot back.
“Silence,”bellowed the speaker. “The chair recognizes Mrs. McCall for one minute, starting now.”
Mrs. McCall gathered as much composure as she could and stood up. “My son, Mark, began to experience kidney failure at age eleven. He was on dialysis and was also on the donor waiting list, but he was a difficult match and after six months our insurance company stopped paying for dialysis, they said because he was not viable long term, but it was obvious that viable meant profitable, and so he was allowed to die to save them money. Under the new law they could not do that and I would still have my precious little boy. Tomorrow would have been his thirteenth birthday. It is too late for him, but not for other families, so I implore you not to undo this law, if you have any sense of compassion or true justice, let decent, affordable medical care for all remain the law of the land.”
“Sit down, lady,” said one of the new speaker's close colleagues. “If your son wasn't profitable to keep alive and viable enough to be a long term productive member of society, then e didn't deserve to live.”
“In any case, he's dead now so what do others mater to you,” said another G.O.P. House member.
“Compassion?” said another Republican House member and spat. “And don't talk to us about true justice. Justice is about punishing the guilty, not giving hand outs to those who refuse to take care of themselves and their own.”
“Remove her,” ordered the speaker, for upon hearing these last words Mrs. McCall had launched herself at the man, and as her husband was right behind her, he quickly added “and him.”
Once the McCalls were removed, the speaker brought his gavel down again, for murmurs had started among the onlookers. “Silence. If they wanted their little boy alive badly enough, they would have fund a way to pay for his treatment themselves and not tried to burden their insurance company with the bill. Next we shall hear from Miss Jenifer Bronkler . . .”
“Mrs. Jenifer Bronkler. My husband may be dead, but I'm certainly testifying here today as his wife. My husband he a heart attack at forty-one, which turned out to be caused by a rare heart deformity that could only be treated on and above the thirteenth floor of the health care mall, but our insurance wouldn't pay for anything above the tenth floor, and we spent the last months of his life fighting them to get him treated and obviously ultimately lost. Now they could not deny such treatment, and he would still be alive.”
“And what difference should that make to us,” said the speaker. “if he had a deformed heart, at most the treatment could probably have made him live a few m,ore years, and his life would have been a waste of space since from what I've read of his condition he could not have been a productive member of society anyway. So, summary, we have a boy with rare kidneys and a man with a rare heart condition that didn't get treatment, in both cases because treatment would not have been cost effective, neither of which compels me to reconsider repealing this ill-conceived law. Remove her,” he said as Jenny launched herself at him.
Then, Susan Klogsberg stood.
“You have not yet been recognized,” the speaker began, then caught the steel in her eyes and fell silent. “My husband had no preexisting condition. He was pushed from the third floor of a building by a man in this room, a man he thought his best friend until my husband caught him cheating on his wife of fifty years with a woman less than half that age. His legs were crushed and had to be amputated to halt the blood loss, but our insurance company, Silver Law, refused any treatment beyond three weeks in the hospital and not a day more and no recovery therapy or wheelchair or prosthetic legs or any other way to get himself around, and when one of the stumps they left him with got infected they wouldn't pay for that either because it was tied to what they wouldn't pay for earlier and so they called it a preexisting condition, even though if they had paid for treatment originally he would not have had that condition, and he died. What do you say to that?”
“That he deserved what he got for sticking his nose in other people's business, and that your insurance company was right to refuse to pay for what would have been a hugely expensive recovery and so not good business sense to pay for.”
Susan's face reddened and she gave a bitter oath under her breath, but kept her anger in check and sat back down.
“Next we have Mr. And Mrs. Fred Trygunolph.”
The couple stood up. “Our daughter had a concussion from a ball to the head playing soccer when she was ten,” Mrs. Trygunolph began. “Because of this no insurance company would cover her because she had a preexisting condition. Then, the three of us were all in the December 2009 train collision, and the ambulance drivers were all told to only take those with insurance, so while we were treated she was left to die and all who were left in the trains died that night, if not of their injuries then of exposure, for that night was very cold. Under the new law, starting in 2014, should not be denied coverage because of a preexisting condition, and so I urge you to let this law remain in effect and so let all eventually reap its benefits.”
“Sit down you old fools,” bellowed the speaker. “She shouldn't have gotten hit in the had with that soccer ball, or should have stopped her. It's not the insurance company nor the emergency vehicles' drivers fault your daughter's dead, it's hers and your.”
The couple's mouths fell open, then they ran from the room as tears fell freely from their eyes.
“What's our next sob story,”said the speaker impatiently, sounding board.
A woman stood up. “My husband had a heart attack at the health care auction just after the triple bypass had gone to the highest bidder, some kid who looked as fit as a fiddle and obviously had no use for it, but still refused to share it. A vaginal cancer exam went to a gay couple with no female connections and a testicular cancer exam to a woman who loathed all men. Everything went to the highest bidder, regardless of need. Now people's health cannot be auctioned and traded like a commodity, and I urge and implore you to keep t that way.”
“Your husband should have given the highest bid,” said the speaker. “And woman the highest bid for the vaginal cancer exam and a man the highest bid for the testicular cancer exam. It's not our fault people don't want to pay for their own medical treatment, and there' still no reason government needed to step in at all on any of this. Business exists to make money, not to give hand outs.” He gave a bored yawn. “Is there anyone else we must hear from?”
“Yes,” said an angry woman's voice as she ushered in four young children. “These children lived with Tom ...a single father, until his insurance company stopped paying for his blood transfusions and he died, and having no family to take them, they are now wards of the state.”
“Yes,” said the speaker. “We'll need to work on eliminating that program sometime soon as well, but that's not the matter hand today. So all of these stories show people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives, if they can't afford medical care on their own or within the old industry system's quite reasonable parameters, they should not get sick or injured. None of these stories shows any reason not to undo the mistake the last Congress made, so all in favor of this motion...”
Every Republican voted to undo Health Care Reform, and while every Democrat voted against the measure, as Republicans were now the majority, it passed and was then sent to The Senate, in which there were now enough Republican votes even to override the Presidential veto that was sure to come, as there were i the House, and so ended a brief time of decent, affordable Health Care for all Americans.