{"id":2083,"date":"2009-07-26T16:43:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2009-07-26T16:43:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T20:43:29","slug":"top-9-benefits-of-obamacaretm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"Top 9 &quot;Benefits&quot; of ObamaCare(tm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t normally post about it here, but I contribute to the Shire Network News podcast, and wanted to post the text of my segment this week.&#160; SNN is a satirical look at the news, but a fierce defender of Western civilization, culture and religion.&#160; I&#8217;m what you might call the &quot;token&quot; Christian on the team.&#160; The rest of the regulars are Jews, most of whom started their adult life as liberals.&#160; Then came reality.&#160; We all get along extremely well, even when we disagree.<\/p>\n<p>SNN (virtually) always has a feature interview.&#160; This episode&#8217;s is with Charles Winecoff, a contributor to the Big Hollywood blog for conservatives working in the creative arts. <a href=\"http:\/\/snnsite.com\/snn-podcast\/podcast\/120-167-podcast-helps-conservatives-come-out-of-the-closet\">Click here for the show notes<\/a>, links, and ways to listen to the show; directly from the web site, by downloading the mp3 file, or by subscribing with your podcatcher of choice. <\/p>\n<p>Below is the text of my commentary. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hi, this is Doug Payton for Shire Network News asking you to &quot;Consider This!&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Candidate Barack Obama said that we needed health care reform in the US, but blasted fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for proposing a mandatory insurance requirement.&#160; <em>President<\/em> Obama now thinks this is a feature, not a bug; a benefit that we just need to get on board with.&#160; But there&#8217;s more, much more!&#160; If you act now&#8230;&#160; (Oh, sorry, I was channeling Billy Mays for a second there.)&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, while there are many positives to the proposal, here are the Top 9 Benefits of ObamaCare(tm):<\/p>\n<p>9 &#8211; No more pesky Canadians crossing the border to avoid their long waiting lines.&#160; Ours will be just as long.<\/p>\n<p>8 &#8211; We&#8217;ll be the envy of the third world.<\/p>\n<p>7 &#8211; Health insurance will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/21\/AR2009072103410.html\">just like car insurance<\/a>; you have to have it, it&#8217;ll cover less as you get older, and your children can trade you in during our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cars.gov\/\">Cash for Clunkers<\/a> program.<\/p>\n<p>6 &#8211; Getting rid of of Grandma &amp; Grandpa sooner means cost savings to you, not including the Christmas &amp; birthday presents you don&#8217;t have to buy anymore.<\/p>\n<p>5 &#8211; Electronic records means that your medical history will soon have its own Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>4- Medicine will no longer be prescribed subject to, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/GeneHealy\/Government-plan-offers-equal-shares-of-meds-without-_diagnosis-bias_-7999994-51256912.html\">as Scott Ott has called it<\/a>, &quot;diagnosis discrimination&quot;; simply based on a doctor&#8217;s opinion.&#160; Government bureaucrats will now be on a level playing field.<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; It&#8217;ll make David Letterman forget all about Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Cost-cutting measure: close rural hospitals.&#160; It&#8217;s OK that farmers will be travelling farther for health care, because we&#8217;ll mandate they buy an electric car.<\/p>\n<p>And the #1 benefit of ObamaCare(tm):<\/p>\n<p>If we had already had it, Michael Jackson would still be alive.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, and Christopher Reeve, too, I imagine.&#160; Consider this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t normally post about it here, but I contribute to the Shire Network News podcast, and wanted to post the text of my segment this week.&#160; SNN is a satirical look at the news, but a fierce defender of Western civilization, culture and religion.&#160; I&#8217;m what you might call the &quot;token&quot; Christian on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,19,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-humor","category-medicine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}