"Why Americans Are Dying from Despair"
The unfairness of our economy, two economists argue, can be measured not only in dollars but in deaths.
By Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, March 16, 2020
Alan: For several years I have thought of Republicans as being neo-necrophiliacs.
They are not necrophiliac in the "common" sense of having intercourse with corpses, but rather by way of being oddly enamoured of visiting death upon people.
Republicans’ ferocious determination to deprive people of healthcare is a textbook illustration of this neo-necrophilia.
They are not necrophiliac in the "common" sense of having intercourse with corpses, but rather by way of being oddly enamoured of visiting death upon people.
Republicans’ ferocious determination to deprive people of healthcare is a textbook illustration of this neo-necrophilia.
The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism
The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die.
The sooner the better.
Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right."
To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice, hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html
Having poked their own eyes out, they fail to see that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.
Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass Final Judgment.
Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold.
Remarkably, although they are prone to believe all manner of Trumpeted nonsense, none of them are tempted to believe in their own spiritual peril.
The Pharisees Are Always With Us.
Here's What They "Look Like" Today
Obamacare And The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism
Jimmy Kimmel Lays Into Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy For "Lying Right To My Face" Before Proposing Malicious Healthcare Bill http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/kimmel-lays-into-sen-bill-cassidy-for.html
Rep. Joe Kennedy III Tells "Christian" Trump-Care Supporters: Your So-Called "Mercy" Is "Malice" http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Great NPR Summary Of The History And Current Status Of The GOP's "Healthcare Deprivation Act" http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
The Cruel Old Party: The GOP’s Passage Of Trumpcare Is Unprecedentedly Callous http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
7 Years' Bitching About Obamacare While Continually Touting Their "Terrific, Low-Cost Replacement" And The GOP Produces Nothing But Flatulence, Excrement And Anguish For 25 Million Americans, Simultaneously Tranferring Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars To The 1% http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
Abomicare: Trump's Titanic Failure http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
What's Missing From This Photo of Politicians Deciding the Future of Women's Health? Anyone http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
The Partisan Divide: Do We Want Good Healthcare? Or Do We Want Political Chest-Thumping?
(It Goes Without Saying That American Conservatives Want Poor People To Die From Lack Of Care. And If They Want Care They Need To Pay For It.) http://paxonbothhouses.blogspo
AP Fact Check: Trump's Promises On Healthcare http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru
AP Fact Check: Trump's Promises On Healthcare http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru
"Trump Promotes His Healthcare Deprivation Act," 2020 Updatehttps://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/trump-promotes-his-healthcare.html
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