BREAKING: John McCain is disatisfied with his health care insurance(s)

[Stinky The Clown]

On today's edition of Face the Nation, Johnny was asked if he could support health care reform that included a government plan. "No" said Johnny, "I have never seen where the government can do a good job providing health care.

This is Johnny. Navy Vet Johnny. War Hero Johnny. Pentagon officer Johnny. Elected official Johnny. All-his-life-on-the-public-teat Johnny. Never had a paying non-government job Johnny.

This is Johnny who qualifies for TriCare, VA care, and Senatorial insurance.

This is Johnny, who has never had to live in the non-governmental world.

Johnny is not happy with government health care.

We must all be way better off than we thought we were. And here we wanted government run health care. Good thing Johnny's there to set us straight.

[ThatsMyBarack]

1. UNrec for McCrappants.

(Apologies to Stinky...)

[Skink]

6. The Mccrapster, Mccrapman, Crapomatic.

:evilgrin:

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Does he also qualify for Medicare?

He probably never paid into the social security system, so does he qualify for Medicare, too?

[demigoddess]

35. military people pay into the medicare and social security, just like you do.

don't know about senators, but i imagine they do as well.

[Obamanaut]

39. Congress members began paying into SS in 1984, IIRC. Prior to

that they were part of the civil service retirement system.

[Obamanaut]

38. Military became part of the social security system in 1957. nt

[leanderj]

3. Let him apply for a Blue Cross individual policy - under a different name and job title

and see how that goes.

[merh]

31. He would be denied a policy

with all of his pre-existing conditions, he would not be able to get insurance.

[Stuart G]

4. Do you suppose one of the questioners will ask about this? nt

[msongs]

5. so did the moderator call him on it? any of it? nt

[ejpoeta]

14. you're kidding, right??? the extent of in depth journalism stops at

balloon boy.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. These pople are unfuckingbelievable.

I'm sure he never stooped to the commie facist care of Bethesda Naval Hospital - owned and operatd by the gubmint.

[Captain Hilts]

8. He's been on govt-sponsored insurance his ENTIRE life. Bastard. nt

[Ikonoklast]

22. He was born sucking the government teat.

And he will die with his lips still firmly attached to it.

Our tax dollars have kept him alive, all these years.

[mitchum]

55. +1

[goclark]

9. So let's take him off and have his rich wife

pay all the bills for him.

Wasn't there something about his first wife that he left when she was ill?

There is a special place in --- for Johnny Boy!

[City Lights]

10. You lie!

Go cheney yourself, John.

[Island Blue]

11. Screw Johnny.

He's been receiving government health care since he was in the womb.

[Aviation Pro]

12. Senator Angry Old Prick resurfaces....

...and not a moment to soon. To the golf car and get off my lawn you damn kids!

[ejpoeta]

13. he may qualify for all these insurances, but his wife is also rich so he can AFFORD

to do whatever he wants... unlike the vast majority of us.

[malaise]

20. The problem is that he has several pre-existing

conditions.

[Cleita]

30. His Senate insurance covers that. Not only that Congress has a clinic and

doctor right there if they need immediate medical attention, all paid for by the government.

[ellenfl]

15. i wish schieffer had called him on that. eom

[1776Forever]

16. Amen - A true lost opportunity but I am sending it to Ed Schultz - Hope he uses it!

Unbelievable but not surprising from this BSer numero uno!

My God he could have been President - :puke:

[CTyankee]

17. I wrote a LTTE on this very subject during the election campaign.

It wasn't published. I was really disappointed because I had worked on that letter pretty damn hard...

[1776Forever]

24. Keep trying - That is all we can do but don't give up! This is very important to get out there!

Thanks!

[CTyankee]

25. I kinda doubt that they would publish it now. Our paper is getting a little squirrely.

I'm not seeing very many LTTEs on national political issues. Mostly, it's local stuff. We used to have 2 or 3 regular repub. assholes write in as often as they could but I don't see them much any more. We're such a liberal town, the liberals are all busy and pretty happy with Obama and the few repubs are just slinking away, out of sight...

[1776Forever]

26. I would count my blessings! I live in a very conservative area where liberal is a bad word.

There are a few of us Dems with more coming around daily but still we are in the grip of the greedy who always had the money and have never went without - yet.

[The Wizard]

40. Liberal is Republican code

You can substitute Jew or any other minority for liberal.
Now with liberal losing its punch they've reverted back to communist and socialist.

[lonestarnot]

18. Lumpy doesn't like what he sees in the mirror. Even the government healthcare can't fix dat!

[patrice]

19. Is it true that he is a boozer with an impulsive temper?

During the campaign, there were retired military officers expressing concerns about his rationality.

[valerief]

48. That's okay. He'll get excellent govt-run psychiatric help for it. Which he'll diss. nt

[patrice]

21. I liked abluelady's comment on this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6852538

If you're against government involvement, why do you need to be at the table? Just vote against it when it gets to the floor. Why should anyone have to put up with you in committee or elsewhere when, because it is government involvement, there is NOTHING they can do to get your vote on anything but the most crippled, fucked-up piece of shit they can get to the floor . . . BEEN THERE, DONE THAT!!!

John McCain is IR-RELEVANT he should be marginalized at every opportunity.

[madokie]

23. Mr. not President you lie

Mr can't fly a plane worth a shit and who will admit to treason, who is in the health care/insurance companies pocket mcCain sucks. My apologies to vacuum cleaners and the other things that suck

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

27. Did McCain ever release his full medical records?

I know there was a demand to see them during the last campaign and I believe a group of reporters had only a short time to look at them. Were they ever fully released so that people could look at them thoroughly? It might be interesting to see all the medical problems for which McCain has received treatment through the years and where he received the treatment. It might be pretty extensive.

[Cleita]

28. Not only that, isn't he eligible for Medicare? n/t

[tonysam]

29. Why in the world does he need insurance?

His wife can pay for all of his medical expenses.

[LaPera]

32. From his mother's womb to the day the liar McCain dies-including his funeral-will be tax payer paid

and this lying disgusting elitist prima-dona McCain has the nerve to trash our country's health care that has paid all his bills going on near eighty years now from the moment of his inception? What a lying selfish greedy republican bastard!

[bjobotts]

33. Greedy POW Multimillionaire sucks the government tit with salary and disability pymnts

[bjobotts]

34. I've had enough of McCain's hypocrisy. Manipulating greedy mooch

[renate]

36. I love that heading--pure genius!

:applause:

I watched a movie the other day about POWs and thought about McCain, and thought about how he had suffered, and felt compassion for him as I had never felt before from just hearing from the news media about what he had endured.

Well, as of reading this post, that didn't last long. I still am sincerely, truly sorry for what he went through in Vietnam, and would never wish that on any sentient being. But it doesn't sound like he learned much from his experience beyond "I deserve everything I get from here on out."

[DrZeeLit]

37. w/o government health care Johnny would be way dead by now -- consider how much health care he's had

He came back from Vietnam and the POW experience completely wrecked.
He's probably had umpteen proceedures.
In addition, that ex-wife he dumped was saved by government health care, too.
OH...and his mother hasn't lived this long without government health care (wife of admiral and all that).

Does he even get what he just said?
Duh.

[tomm2thumbs]

41. McCain is quickly losing his 'hero' credentials

you can't stay a hero and be bought off by special interests at the same time

[olegramps]

42. I am curious. Why would you consider him a hero?

I don't consider soldiers who are captured to be any more heroic then those who aren't. Yes, I have compassion for anyone who is subjected to torture. The fact of the matter is that he broke under torture and I don't hold any hostility toward him because he did so, but what of those who didn't? Are they more deserving of being considered a hero? Any respect that I had for the man I have lost completely. He deserted his beauty queen wife because she had become crippled and had subsequently put on weight. He is a notorious boozer and womanizer. Nothing more than a gold digging worthless excuse for a human being. There is nothing about him that I admire.

[Obamanaut]

52. Good Grief olegramps! I used almost those exact words too many

times to count during the campaign last year.

[marmar]

43. You government health care providers get off my lawn !!!!

:freak:

[graywarrior]

44. Most excellent post, Stinky The Clown

[SlingBlade]

45. Our Local RePug Congressman uses the same line

This is now the standard line Republicans use to
throw the American people off the scent of a Public Option

Don Manzullo (R-16) Illinois:
I Wouldn't Wish My Federal Health Plan On Anybody
http://www.progressillinois.com/2009/7/17/manzullo-health-insurance

What kind of health care do lawmakers and Obama get?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/71983.html

Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Connecticut) summed up all of the specifics
during a health care hearing yesterday and aptly denounced the
hypocrisy of Republicans fearmongering about the creation of a
government-run "public" plan while enjoying the benefits of one
themselves.
Watch it (H/T Greg Sargent) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBEj-L-n2A&feature=player_embedded

Good Catch Stinky .....K & R :)

[Enthusiast]

46. He's against net neutrality.

He has zero credibility.

[valerief]

47. If it was so bad, wouldn't he have been dead from his head cancer now? nt

[mlevans]

49. Now there's a thought.

Maybe he actually is dead.

[valerief]

53. Head dead anyway. nt

[DonCoquixote]

50. Complain about Obama

But between this and McCain's attempt to hamstring Net Neutrality, I am thankful to whatever Providence there is that I do not have to call McCain my president. He was unworthy well before Palin came into the picture, and well, let's face it, if he won, Dick would have probably ensure McCain had a "Heart attack" to put Palin in, another dumb puppet he could slid his hand into.

[OnyxCollie]

51. Johnny is so unhappy with his government health care

that he gave reporters only three hours to go through his 1,173 page medical history when he was running for president. Oh, the shame.

[ddeclue]

54. The same health care that provided him with the physical therapist so that he could fly again for

the Navy after the Hanoi Hilton?

That's really bad karma Johnny to go saying things like that..

:eyes: