Here's a handy list of possible GOP healthcare reforms:
- Repeating the phrase “you can keep your current doctor” over and over until something happens
- Loosening regulations to allow Americans to ship ill and injured family members to cheaper doctors overseas
- Whatever the opposite of tyranny is
- Allowing sick Americans to choose how they exhaust their life savings on a single medical bill, even if it’s out of plan
- A true market-based solution—perhaps a convenient website—where uninsured people would pay for their own health insurance from private providers
- $2,500 cash incentive to the first person who cures cancer
- A health care law that won’t allow the disgrace of another Benghazi
- Unsettling language and several ominous-looking graphs labeled “Obamacare” followed by a breezy smile and soothing, unspecific words
Keeping in mind that while I'm not in a league with say a Rachel Maddow or a Chris Hayes in how much time I spend studying politics, I'm not exactly a novice, either. I spend a good 30-40 hours a week reading about politics, if not more. So when I saw the above, especially the part about the $2500 cash incentive for finding a cure for cancer, I thought, "Can you believe how fucking stupid these republicans are? $2500? Shit, that's worth millions!"
Ahem. Turns out as I read farther in Digby's
post these reforms were actually from
The Onion.
Though it does say an awful lot about the current state of the g.o.p. that I thought these "reforms" were the real deal.
Peace,
emaycee
