Help Derisive Laughers Learn Some Manners

Democratic Congressional candidate Faye Armitage won nearly 150,000 votes last year.

Yesterday,at a health insurance cartel forum in Jacksonville, Obama haters presented a one-sided debate, with Faye Armitage a last-minute addition. Faye Armitage took on five health insurance cartelists in a debate and told them things they did not know -- like the fact that Harry S Truman first proposed national health care in 1945.

Faye Armitage reportedly was greeted with "derisive laughter" by corporate minions who know not that they know not that they know not.

We're going to get national health care whether or not cartelists like it or not.

That includes AETNA, which nearly killed both my parents in January 2000.

That includes every other corporate health insurance oligopoly and its bureaucrats.

That includes the smug, plug-ugly Repugs who subjected Faye Armitage to "derisive laughter."

Bad enough they have an unbalanced panel, but really, "derisive laughter?" How indescribably rude and bullying.

Some limited -- but vastly overpaid and insensitive -- people in the health "industry" are full of meanness, suffering from diarrhea of words and constipation of ideas (like Dr. James Grimes, who wrote the St. Augustine Record that there is no "right to health care," opining on law and religion as if he knew anything about either.

Lord, let them learn some manners and some compassion for those without health care.
Pray for them!

Let them learn that every other industrialized country has a "right" to health care.
Pray for them!

Let them learn that Germany has such had a right since Bismarck. Pray for them!

Let them learn that there is no free market in insurance, which is exempt from antitrust laws (except boycotts and coercion) under the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 (which Republicans oppose repealing because they're corporativists).

Let them learn that Congress has been dawdling on national health care since 1945, when Harry Truman proposed it.

As Faye Armitage once wrote, "we're all Truman Democrats now."