CONSERVATIVES' TRUE NATURE, DANCING AT DEATH

'DANCING AT DEATH' BY MATTHEW LUCAS BECKETT “The young and the healthy should not sign-up for so called 'Justice In Health Care'. After all, what is just about forcing you to buy something you don't want and will never need,” I said on my latest radio interview. Of course, my colleagues on the left had a different view. “Anyone can have a heath emergency at any time, Lucian,” they said. “And if Healthy People do not sign up, The Insurance Industry will still refuse to cover People With Preexisting Conditions and the whole effort will have been in vain and will collapse.” “Which means what to me?” I asked bluntly. “People who made bad choices earlier in life should pay for them later in life. That's the way things work.” They became so flustered at this that none of them had an immediate answer and so I walked away. To their consternation and my delight, my fellow People on The Right in every possible sense of the word and my message seemed to be working. “Very few signing up for Health Insurance under 'Justice In Health Care',” reported the evening news anchor near the end of March, 2014. “Causing a danger of the whole thing collapsing.” Of course, they paraded a bunch of people who had not been able to buy Health Insurance under the old system and would not be able to maintain insurance coverage and get their conditions treated if the new system collapsed and their sob stories across the airwaves, but to my surprised delight much of the public was too clever to fall for that. On the critical day at the end of March, there are not enough Healthy People signed up and the new system breaks down, thankfully. “People denied coverage prier to 'Justice In Health Care' having their newfound coverage taken away all across the country,” reported the News Anchors across the country. “Operations halted, and patients turned out of the hospital in mid stream or mid treatment.” “You see what your kind have done, Lucian,” says the Democratic Majority Leader of The House when reports of these, can they really even be called 'people' dying in droves begin to come in. “It's not my fault they made bad choices earlier in life,” I respond. “Many of them were born with these conditions, and got them through no fault of their own,” she screams at me. “Or made mistakes as very young children. You can't classify them as criminals, or put them in that same class, for that.” I walk away before she starts crying, as everyone on the left, male and female, always does about this. A month after the deadline, the last already in treatment person with a preexisting condition who had their treatment halted when the horrible new system collapsed dies, and in the following weeks others with preexisting conditions and other restrictions under the old and, thankfully, restored system, also begin to die. By the time of The 2014 August Recess, everyone who could not get Health Insurance on their own merits is dead, and so when I get off the plain, I begin dancing in the streets. Soon I see an old friend and former colleague and when I tell him “I'm dancing in the streets because every American unworthy of Health Insurance is now dead,” he joins me. Soon, a large group of us are dancing in the streets at the deaths of those who were unworthy of lie anyway, and when a woman cries that her son was born with only one kidney and so it wasn't his fault, we sing “Proud To Be An American” so loudly that she is drowned out and leaves. I hear of similar street dances elsewhere in the county, in fact everywhere in the country we Republicans all dance in the street at the deaths of the uninsurable the entire month of August, and when I have to fly back to Washington for other business, such as dismantling Medicaid, at the end of August, the dancing in the streets at the deaths of those unworthy of any Health Care at all are still going on. SHUTTING DOWN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO STOP HEALTH CARE REFORM IS NO BETTER THAN THIS AND THOSE WHO WOULD DO SO IN REALITY ARE NO BETTER THAN THOSE DANCING IN THE STREETS IN THIS STORY, IN FACT THEY ARE THOSE DANCING IN THE STREETS.