Rightards Choke On Their Own Phlegm When Obama Talks Health

Monday Jun 14, 2010

Where The Right Foams and Froths About Improved Health Through
Improved Lifestyles

By karoli


Further proof of the crazy that is our current right wing:

Outrage -- OUTRAGE, I tell you -- because President Obama issued this
executive order under the Patient Protection and Affordable Health
Care Act.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-establishing-national-prevention-health-promotion-and-public-health

It declares the following:


There is established within the Department of Health and Human
Services, the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health
Council (Council).


Among other things, the purpose of said council is to:


(c) provide recommendations to the President and the Congress
concerning the most pressing health issues confronting the United
States and changes in Federal policy to achieve national wellness,
health promotion, and public health goals, including the reduction of
tobacco use, sedentary behavior, and poor nutrition;


Only in Right-Winger Land could this be a bad thing.

On the one hand, they whine about our spending on health care and on
the other, whine about any initiative which actually stands a chance
of improving both spending and outcomes.

The Council is comprised of cabinet officers and policymakers, but
that doesn't stop the wingers from jumping off into the Imagination
Canyon where they opine about what "advisors" the President will
appoint, naming Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers as prime examples of
the evil about to descend upon our nation.

Oh, and Dr. Kevorkian, so as to raise the specter of "death panels"
one. more. time.

I could quote them, but then I'd have to link and it's really just too
ridiculous to link.

If you really want to read the insanity for yourself, try googling the
term "lifestyle behavior modification" or "nanny state liberation
front."

Of course, this is just a riff on the "big government is bad" set of
conservative talking points.

They really hate big government until they love it. They don't want to
make lifestyle changes, but are outraged -- OUTRAGED -- that Big
Government hasn't stopped the oil spilling into the Gulf, sent
Superman to clean it up, and restarted drilling in deepwater
worldwide.

Of course, if health insurers established such advisory councils
(which they have) and altered their policies to encourage and reward
healthy lifestyles (which they have), it would be totally okay,
because the savings to those insurers would mean cheaper health
insurance for the rest of us.

Right? RIGHT?

Do these people ever suffer from outrage fatigue?

Is there a little blue pill for that?

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RePIGs are truly pathetic, ain't they.

Harry