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Hilarious Alert: Americans Angry About Supreme Court Ruling On Healthcare Threaten To ‘Move To Canada’

ProudProgressive 2012/06/28 20:28:13

I thought I had seen the height of Right Wing ignorance when people were carrying around signs saying "Keep the Government's Hands Off My Medicare", but the ignorant Right has managed to outdo themselves. This is just another example of how susceptible low information conservatives are to delusions from overexposure to the Fox Propaganda Network

Article excerpt follows:

Hilarious Alert: Americans Angry About Supreme Court Ruling On Healthcare Threaten To ‘Move To Canada’
June 28, 2012
By Michael Hayne

(Warning): Reading the above headline more than once may result in blood gushing out of your eyes, so it’s a good thing you no longer have to remain at that crappy job in order to have it medically treated.

But just in case that crappy job you hate has firewalls up for all non crappy job related activities, five out of the nine Supreme Court Justices, including John Roberts ( Seriously, John Roberts sided with Obamacare. Now that calls for a Biden “Big F**king deal!” Now, millions of Americans will have the right to not die. Well, all those freedom loving baggers of tea and miserably uninformed followers of Sarah “Spongebrain Squarehead” Palin took their righteous rage to the only place where spelling and coherence aren’t necessary: Twitter.

In what can only be described as a phenomenon of the Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof Sci-fi variety, hordes of dyspeptic right-wingers (I’m guessing) took to Twitter to express their sheer outrage at the Supreme Court decision and threatened to ’move to Canada’ to escape socialized medicine. I sorely wish that was a typo, but it is much too much true. Perhaps these individuals will encourage citizens of Bahrain to move to Syria to escape despotism, or maybe pour gasoline on a fire to put it out. On the bright side, at least tea baggers are totally butchering and misrepresenting the history and public policies of a country other than their own.

“I’m moving to Canada, the United States is entirely too socialist,” tweets @WallyWeldon

“The supreme court upheld Obama Care. That’s it. I’m moving to Canada!,” tweets @lucasdargis.

“#SCOTUS holds up free healthcare for everyone?! Screw this commie country, I’m moving to #Canada!, ” tweets @Vansummers (Huffington Post)

This stunning display of willful ignorance–albeit hilarious–is almost as classic as when a bunch of angry old white people demand that the government not get involved in their Medicare, which was the equivalent of boycotting the highway system and then going on a cross-country road trip. So nobody inform these people of the ridiculously well-established fact that Canada not only has had a socialized form of health care since the 1950s, but universal health care. I want them be to be surprised.


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  • Curmudgeon 2012/06/28 22:41:27
    Curmudgeon
    +1
    So Americans are mad about the ruling, are afraid that the United States is becoming to socialist, and they want to move to Canada? As a Canadian we already have a national health care plan, and as evil as many Americans seem to call it in the media it's funny how many average Americans ask me all kinds of questions about it.

    I once had to use my group benefits card in an American hospital and my entire trip ended up being free, I had two people follow me out and ask me where they could get the card I had.

    This story is either fake, the reporter is dumb, or it's from the onion.
  • ProudPr... Curmudgeon 2012/06/29 16:44:08
    ProudProgressive
    It's not from the Onion, and I can't vouch for its accuracy, but given that these are the same people who protested saying "Keep the Government's Hands off my Medicare" this seems to be par for the course.

    keep government out of medicare
  • JaguarSocialist 2012/06/28 21:57:59
    JaguarSocialist
    +2
    Are they too f*cking dumb to know Canada has a national health care system?
  • ProudPr... JaguarS... 2012/06/29 16:44:33
    ProudProgressive
    +1
    Yes. They are.
  • JaguarS... ProudPr... 2012/06/29 16:52:04 (edited)
    JaguarSocialist
    What does that say about the American fundamentalist Christian bible school system? Did you see the story about a Christian school in Louisian that uses a textbook indicating the Loch Ness monster is real and proves creationism?

    http://www.addictinginfo.org/...

    These idiots are "educating" another generation of right wing idiots.
  • NarcolepticGoat 2012/06/28 21:15:41
    NarcolepticGoat
    +1
    This is from the onion? Right? RIGHT?

    shocked goat
  • seathanaich 2012/06/28 21:11:53
    seathanaich
    The biggest problem with US health care is the massive amount of administrative waste it has in comparison to most other countries, Canada included. It is this waste that makes the US system so much more expensive, without being any better.
  • JaguarS... seathan... 2012/06/28 21:58:34
    JaguarSocialist
    You're right; the administrative costs in the U.S. are far ahead of that in other countries.
  • BigFig#9 JaguarS... 2012/06/29 05:56:59
    BigFig#9
    We're Number One! We're Number One! U-S-A, U-S-A!
  • JaguarS... BigFig#9 2012/06/29 13:48:24
    JaguarSocialist
    +1
    We're number one in all the wrong things like our prison population, number one is the greatest disparity between rich and poor in the western industrialized world, etc. etc. etc.
  • BigFig#9 JaguarS... 2012/06/29 18:03:54
    BigFig#9
    and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
  • JaguarS... BigFig#9 2012/06/29 18:15:14
    JaguarSocialist
    Correct; you'd think the idiots screaming "USA! USA! USA! We're Number One" would actually learn something about the fact this nation isn't the paradise they think it is.
  • BigFig#9 JaguarS... 2012/06/29 18:18:30
    BigFig#9
    And generally they know zero or less about any other country and have only travelled to foreign lands perhaps on a military assignment or exercise. I will confess that the US is among the better countries when compared to the broad spectrum. Definite advantages over Somalia, etc.... (Of course MAYBE I'M the ignorant one here as I haven't been to Somalia.)
  • JaguarS... BigFig#9 2012/06/29 18:31:34
    JaguarSocialist
    +1
    No, you're right. I was referring more to our standing in comparison to some policies in, for example, Norway and other western industrialized nations that have stronger social safety nets.
  • BigFig#9 JaguarS... 2012/06/29 18:43:17
    BigFig#9
    Sweden was my idea of the perfect country... Canada (in Vancouver at least) is close. Liked Norway but didn't really spend enough time to fully 'wear' the culture.
  • JaguarS... BigFig#9 2012/06/29 19:01:43
    JaguarSocialist
    Norway is one of the best places to live; I love Vancouver and Whistler is nearby. I think, as you put it, "wearing" the culture is important when traveling. I remember visitng Milan and at every intersection there was a sign advising how far one had to walk for the next McDonald's. Sad!
  • seathan... JaguarS... 2012/07/06 20:53:49
    seathanaich
    I think Big Fig is joking, not being serious.
  • seathan... JaguarS... 2012/07/06 20:54:33
    seathanaich
    I have visited the US, and asked the people we were visiting to explain the US medical system. I didn't understand the completely unnecessary administrative level that exists between health care companies and hospitals. That must be where the US system's massive administrative waste occurs. The problem is that it's hard to completely chop and change anything that huge.
  • JaguarS... seathan... 2012/07/08 15:29:03
    JaguarSocialist
    You're right, the waste occurs in the administrative part of the system. As Proud pointed out, the ACA requires insurance companies to spend money on actual care and not other costs. The health care industry also spends millions of dollars lobbying Congress or, as I like to put, putting out the money to buy the whores who are our elected representatives.
  • ProudPr... seathan... 2012/06/29 16:46:04
    ProudProgressive
    That's true. Unfortunately most people don't seem to realize that most of that waste occurs in the private sector. That's why the Health Care Reform Law requires private insurers to spend at least 80% of the premiums they receive on actual medical care. (Incidentally, Medicare applies about 97% of the payments it receives to actual care.)
  • Steve 2012/06/28 21:10:42
    Steve
    +1
    I actually laughed out loud.
  • BigFig#9 2012/06/28 21:01:57
    BigFig#9
    So do any of us think any of those posts were serious? 'Gullible' isn't even a word you know?
  • ProudPr... BigFig#9 2012/06/28 21:05:30
    ProudProgressive
    +1
    The Right Wing has a very limited capacity, and most have no sense of humor. I think most of them honestly don't realize how foolish they are.
  • BigFig#9 ProudPr... 2012/06/28 21:54:46
    BigFig#9
    I think you're wrong---look at he Republican hopefuls this year! What do we have as Progressives? NUTTIN!
  • MidnightCowboy 2012/06/28 20:59:19
    MidnightCowboy
    +2
    Oh, Man, is Bill Maher ever going to have fun with this story tomorrow night!
  • BigFig#9 2012/06/28 20:57:42
    BigFig#9
    +1
    Onviously sarcastic humor is alive and well in the Tweetisphere...t
  • ««Gingey, the Master Debate... 2012/06/28 20:55:02
    ««Gingey, the Master Debater of Þ|-|Дэ†»»
    +2
    HAHA!! Lol!! What morons! There's some good ol' Republican stupidity for you.
  • KrSpo 2012/06/28 20:45:15
    KrSpo
    +2
    Are these ALSO the same Republicans that have been screaming about the socialist policies of Canada? This goes to reinforce what many of us have been saying. The Republicans seem to mold things to whatever they need at the time no matter what it is in reality.
  • ProudPr... KrSpo 2012/06/28 20:46:50
    ProudProgressive
    +3
    I think the idiotic talking points go from the ears to the mouth (or the keyboard) without bothering to stop at the brain.
  • KrSpo ProudPr... 2012/06/29 03:31:16
    KrSpo
    Brain?
  • luvguins 2012/06/28 20:37:04 (edited)
    luvguins
    +5
    cats ROTFLMAO cats ROTFLMAO cats ROTFLMAO

    If this doesn't show the abject stupidity of right wingers, nothing does!!
  • kir 2012/06/28 20:36:42
    kir
    +1
    I would say the best bet is in Finland; it's not that socialism is good or bad, it's that we will only pay for a product if it's a quality product--in certain other nations the government run programs are fairly decent--here they suck. What's worse, in this case we're not actually given anything, we're just forced to purchase a product we can't afford.
  • Archer ... kir 2012/06/28 21:29:33
    Archer ~ The Limit Break of PHAET
    +1
    There is no mention of a government run healthcare program in this. At all. There used to be, but the supposed "Obamacare" as it was passed only mandates that people buy insurance - not that the government provide it for them.
  • kir Archer ... 2012/06/28 21:54:54
    kir
    Yes, and that is why I consider this program to be a crony capitalist scam by this administration to push up profits for health insurance companies.
  • Archer ... kir 2012/06/28 22:19:02
    Archer ~ The Limit Break of PHAET
    +1
    so in other words: there's no pleasing you.
  • kir Archer ... 2012/06/28 22:20:22
    kir
    +1
    Incorrect; I would be happy with a system that actually increases the accessibility to health care while not taking away freedom.
  • Archer ... kir 2012/06/28 22:52:11
    Archer ~ The Limit Break of PHAET
    +1
    Okay, I'll rephrase:

    There is no pleasing you in the United States of America, no matter how you slice it.
  • kir Archer ... 2012/06/28 22:56:06
    kir
    +1
    All you would need is national guidelines for welfare programs that are then decentralized to the state level; it's not asking for much.
  • Archer ... kir 2012/06/29 01:42:01
    Archer ~ The Limit Break of PHAET
    .... it's asking for too much for this country. :-P

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