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Oct. 14th, 2009 09:20 amFor my news-tainment, I am an unabashed NPR news listener. It is partially because I have no time to read anymore, but spend about 75 minutes a day in my car, on average.
Even though I disagree with them only about .001% of the time, I know they are smug liberals, mostly, though I do also listen to Marketplace, which is less so. But despite their occassionally painfully obvious biases, their news coverage is still top notch, and I really don't want to be "challenged" in my entertainment, and this extends to my news-tainment. I don't watch movies like "Beaches," because I know I will cry and feel like a TOTAL FOOL. I don't watch bloody slasher films, because I know I will not be able to bleach these images out of my brain and they will haunt me on the exact same level that true stories from pogram survivors and ethnic clensing and true crime stories haunt me and who the FUCK needs that kind of trauma from their entertainment. And in the same vein, for my news-tainment, I do not go to Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, or other sources for high bloodpressure and the possible onset of stroke or aneurism.
Yes, I do not look for "challenge" in these areas of my fake life. I have enough real challenges in my real life.
That said, I found this piece on All Things Considered ridiculously amusing last night.
I don't know exactly where we fall out, because I don't know exactly what we pay and where the various discussions draw the line, but if we don't have "cadillac" health coverage, we have close to it.
I am actually irritated by this debate. First, we pay our entire premium, I believe. The government doesn't pay it, nor does Husband's employer, though the government does subsidize it, I suppose, by not taxing the money we spend on it. But the government subsidises home ownership, too, but giving back big mortgage tax credits. The government is having major coniptions about getting people to pay for their coverage and trying to figure out HOW to get people to pay for it. I just find it annoying that people who have really excellent coverage need to be somehow penalized for that. Blah, blah, wah, wah. What happens, happens, and I hope it is for the good, and honestly, I want SOMETHING to happen, because we have been hostage to health care coverage all our working lives, and I'm frankly sick of that, but still. Annoyed.
And BTW, let me tell you, cadillac coverage doesn't mean we're getting eye surgery, hair implants, and liposuction. It means we don't have to worry if I have a hernia or husband needs surgery or The Barbarian goes to the emergency room for a possible asthma attack and has to stay overnight for evaluation. And medication for various chronic conditions is available by mail order for $10 per 90 days. So. If that's cadillac coverage, I would think the goal would be for EVERYONE to have it. Jeez.
Anyway, let me wish everyone the red convertible TESLA of health care coverage, with an extra Lexus sedan in the garage for family trips and rainy days.
Even though I disagree with them only about .001% of the time, I know they are smug liberals, mostly, though I do also listen to Marketplace, which is less so. But despite their occassionally painfully obvious biases, their news coverage is still top notch, and I really don't want to be "challenged" in my entertainment, and this extends to my news-tainment. I don't watch movies like "Beaches," because I know I will cry and feel like a TOTAL FOOL. I don't watch bloody slasher films, because I know I will not be able to bleach these images out of my brain and they will haunt me on the exact same level that true stories from pogram survivors and ethnic clensing and true crime stories haunt me and who the FUCK needs that kind of trauma from their entertainment. And in the same vein, for my news-tainment, I do not go to Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, or other sources for high bloodpressure and the possible onset of stroke or aneurism.
Yes, I do not look for "challenge" in these areas of my fake life. I have enough real challenges in my real life.
That said, I found this piece on All Things Considered ridiculously amusing last night.
I don't know exactly where we fall out, because I don't know exactly what we pay and where the various discussions draw the line, but if we don't have "cadillac" health coverage, we have close to it.
I am actually irritated by this debate. First, we pay our entire premium, I believe. The government doesn't pay it, nor does Husband's employer, though the government does subsidize it, I suppose, by not taxing the money we spend on it. But the government subsidises home ownership, too, but giving back big mortgage tax credits. The government is having major coniptions about getting people to pay for their coverage and trying to figure out HOW to get people to pay for it. I just find it annoying that people who have really excellent coverage need to be somehow penalized for that. Blah, blah, wah, wah. What happens, happens, and I hope it is for the good, and honestly, I want SOMETHING to happen, because we have been hostage to health care coverage all our working lives, and I'm frankly sick of that, but still. Annoyed.
And BTW, let me tell you, cadillac coverage doesn't mean we're getting eye surgery, hair implants, and liposuction. It means we don't have to worry if I have a hernia or husband needs surgery or The Barbarian goes to the emergency room for a possible asthma attack and has to stay overnight for evaluation. And medication for various chronic conditions is available by mail order for $10 per 90 days. So. If that's cadillac coverage, I would think the goal would be for EVERYONE to have it. Jeez.
Anyway, let me wish everyone the red convertible TESLA of health care coverage, with an extra Lexus sedan in the garage for family trips and rainy days.
