Selfishly, I’d like a good 2-4 billion people to stop living on the earth.
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need one of these?
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WTF
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As much as I don’t want to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, I think that was a simple missed word as sometimes happens to even normal folks when speaking rapidly / thinking on the fly (probably “you don’t have a right to health care”, shorthand for the no-government-driven-universal-health-coverage political viewpoint), rather than the truly stupid sh*t that some Republicans tweet.
Admittedly an argument could be made that no-government-driven-universal-health-coverage is itself a stupid stance…but that’s a more legitimately debatable point, I think.
I love seeing utter stupidity and ridiculousness spotlighted (regardless of political affiliation), but excessively roasting a politician for a minor flub that doesn’t detract from meaning when kept in full context only fuels to toxicity of the modern American political climate.
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I disagree, I think he meant Healthcare is not a right, that is not an unusual theme
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I also believe he meant you don’t have a right to health care when he said you don’t have a right to health.
I also posted here because of his proposed solution of holding some sort of festivals where people could see a doctor for 15 minutes. What happens when an uninsured person at said festival finds out they have a serious illness?
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Free funnel cake?
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FWIW, the pedant in me agrees that healthcare is not “a right”. The proper framing is whether it should be an entitlement.
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Exactly. Would love to see that free physical of “well looks like you have diabetes” and the response is, “Uhhhh. Thanks, bye.”
When I hear (primarily) Republicans say such things, I parse it as shorthand for saying “healthcare is not something government should be providing as a matter of ‘right’” as opposed to, say, “people are/aren’t free to pursue health care as they wish (but they bear the primary responsibility for making financial arrangements for that care)”.
I’m suggesting that Dr. Oz misspoke when communicating the former point, and that that’s a debatable point, rather than a typical stupid statement deserving of ridicule.
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The festivals for 15 minutes of healhcare is worthy of mocking to me. YMMV.
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I agree that the imagery is ridiculous on the surface, but giving the guy the benefit of doubt (which I am admittedly loathe to do)…I can see it as pitching an idea to help address the accessibility to basic healthcare without going into things that the GOP currently considers taboo.
I’ve heard of analogous setups (admittedly not described as “festivals”) for providing dental care to underserved communities, and a few mass COVID-vaccination clinics did have a festival/street party element as a means of incenting people to queue up for their shots.
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To be fair, the last town festival I was at had a tent for low cost health screenings and blood tests…
Yeah, certainly in the third world that is pretty common. I know doctors, dentists, optometrists will go down for a couple of weeks. Often during the school break they can set up shop in a school and do their thing and then pack up & leave. No, it’s not ideal. It’s not the same as having a local provider that you can see whenever there’s a problem. But it’s better than nothing.
One of my girlfriends is an ENT and she does cleft palate repairs in Africa every 18 months or so. But she says it’s heartbreaking because she has to turn away the most severe cases as the recovery time is too long and the risk of a complication after she leaves is too high. So it’s certainly not a comprehensive solution. But she does end up helping a lot of people who wouldn’t otherwise get help.
A relative is an optometrist. You know those bins at work or church to donate your used glasses? Well she sorts them and takes them to South America and runs clinics. And sometimes, especially towards the end, she doesn’t have a Rx available that’s a good fit. But a lot more people can see clearly than if she didn’t do what she did.
I can see mass clinics as PART of a comprehensive solution, or as a way to get SOME care to the underserved. But it’s certainly not the same as Medicare for all and I assume Dr. Oz is not claiming otherwise.
(Not that I’d vote for him, mind you.)
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and I have gotten my flu shot. But that only tells yo to see your doctor, they don’t treat you
From a Move On solicitation:
Trump has said so many stupid things. But “who” instead of “whom”?
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I think you could safely assume that any vendor at any gun show is a Republican.
$1,000 bills for $3. That’s inflation! Thanks, Biden.
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I am aware of several instances of that not being the case.
For example, I’m not certain the folks who sell these are in the current mainstream of the GOP:
And while it’s not a gun show, I suspect that another member of the club where I go to practice/play, a member who I suspect was assigned male at birth, but may not currently prefer male pronouns, and who has a couple of pistols and a rifle in hot pink finish…I’m pretty sure they aren’t a Republican.