It didn’t take long – idiots speaking out on healthcare reform

In yesterday’s post I commented on how only Dummies and Socialists could possibly support the healthcare reform legislation that was passed by Congressional Democrats on Sunday and signed into law today by Barack Hussein Obama.

Today I happened to see a link on the Drudge Report to WARL.Com in North Carolina. The story was titled Having insurance ‘going to be like Christmas.’

The story featured brain-dead or brain-washed reporters interviewing ignorant dummies about the passage of the healthcare reform bill. Read full story here.

The first person featured in the story was a man named DeCarlo Flythe, who showed both his excitement and ignorance in regards to the healthcare bill by saying “It’s going to be like Christmas.” Flythe who is said to have lost health coverage for his family three years ago when he was laid off from his job also said “It’s going to be great. You know, no worries (about) the bills. We are going to go ahead and pay our co-pay and be alright.”

This guy sounds a lot like the infamous, Peggy Joseph.

Remember her?

Maybe the dumbass reporter should have informed Mr. Flythe that the reform won’t really go into effect until 2014. Oh yeah, I forgot; it’s not the reporters job to correct assertions made by people they are interviewing – right? More on that a little later.

Does Mr. Flythe realize that the legislation that passed is not a “free” government-run single-payer system – at least not yet? Until then, Mr. Flythe will be forced to buy health insurance from an insurance company, and pay the premiums that go along with that. Only when the private insurance companies are totally wiped out by this legisilation will Mr. Flythe have what he seems to believe he now has.

Another sob-story case featured in the piece was about a man named Norman Rucker, who claimed that he hadn’t had health insurance for the past ten years because his employers didn’t offer any.

Mr. Rucker went on to say the following: “I’m not a person who gets sick a lot, so I didn’t think I’d need any medicine.” Rucker said that he racked up about $100,000 in hospital bills over that period by going to the emergency room whenever he needed care. “I’m trying to pay them off. Collection agencies call me all the time,” he said.

What the hell?

Not a person who gets sick a lot? Ten thousand dollars per year on emergency room visits? I’d love to hear what Mr. Rucker’s idea of a hypochondriac is.

Mr. Rucker ended the interview with this tear-jerking quote: “It’ll make the world better. It’ll make us all better, actually.”

Both Mr. Flythe and Mr. Rucker were patients at the Walltown Clinic in Durham, North Carolina. According to WARL.Com, the clinic is a joint program of Duke University and Lincoln Community Health Center that serves the low-income neighborhoods near Duke’s campus. The clinic serves 3,000 to 4,000 patients a year – 80 percent don’t have health insurance – and charges co-pays based on what patients can afford.

Wait a minute; the impression that I got from the story was that Mr. Flythe and Mr. Rucker didn’t have any health insurance, and therefore had no healthcare. Silly me! I guess it’s just that the two men somehow believe that government mandated, or government run insurance would be better than the care they’re now getting from the Walltown Clinic, or the care that they could probably already receive from Medicaid. Mr. Flythe & Mr. Rucker are evidently true believers in the God of Big Government.

Now back to the reporters who brought us this heartwarming story of hope. Earlier in the post I rhetorically asked why the reporters didn’t attempt to correct the obvious misconceptions of the people they were interviewing.

I confess that I realize full well that reporters only correct and challenge the people they are covering when the people happen to be Conservatives/Republicans.

Remember when this pathetic excuse for a reporter took it upon herself to “educate” the evil racists attending a Tea Party rally. 

The fact is that WRAL purposely went to a location where they knew that the reaction to the healthcare reform bill would be positive. They don’t care if they make the pawns that they’re using to push their agenda look like ignorant buffoons. The media will now take it upon themselves to hit the road and report on phony stories about the huge success of the Obama healthcare legislation. I predict that you’ll soon see polls that will show how people are supposedly very happy with the new system and that they now have improved healthcare. The truth matters little to the propagandists in the media, and the Socialists, Marxists, Progressives, and Communists in the Democrat Party and in the White House.