Oppose Health Care Reform, Get Hooters Wings

9:49 am EST December 16th, 2009 | News | 10 Comments

hooters girls Suddenly, I see this issue in a whole new light.

Online ads have popped up lately, telling readers that they can win a $150 Amex Gift Card for use at Hooters, if they complete a survey about other offers. One of those urges them to sign up for ‘free emails’ from the Chamber of Commerce, which will explain ‘how to protect your family’s future and bring common sense solutions to the health-care debate.’ In other words, getting involved with the Chamber’s campaign against reform. These ‘incentivized ads’ appear to be the favored new tactic of lobbying groups looking to generate the appearance of grassroots support for their positions.

Unless the Democrats can somehow offer a different variety of delicious finger food combined with scantily clad, attractive young women I’ll have to say: kill the bill!

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10 Responses to “Oppose Health Care Reform, Get Hooters Wings”

jr says:

December 16, 2009 at 12:15 pm

Paying 4 figures a month for health insurance helps “protect your family’s future”
Matthew Hooper says:

December 16, 2009 at 12:23 pm

You do realize that you’ve just surrendered any right to complain about corruption in the Senate, right? Seeing as you’ve just established that a plate of hot wings and some boobies will buy your vote…
Brian says:

December 16, 2009 at 1:28 pm

Don’t hot wings and boobies already buy the votes of the C Street Family? This seems like an outgrowth of that. Are GOPers employing logic here?
liberalrob says:

December 16, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Is that Carrie Prejean’s next gig, Hooters server?
Quaker in a Basement says:

December 16, 2009 at 6:02 pm

Hey, completely OT:

Scientists have found an Earth-like planet a mere 40 light years away.

That raises the important question, do they have oil?
Jaim says:

December 16, 2009 at 10:51 pm

Stop drinking the Obama Kool-Aid Oliver. What we’re going to get from the Senate is not health-care reform, but a massive hand-out to the insurance and pharma industries. Not just a government hand-out, but one that literally goes into every American’s paycheck and hand over earnings to these private, for-profit companies. And so far there’s nothing — not a single damn thing — that demonstrates either a) reasonable cost control or b) guarantee of access. (Lest we forget, most Americans who undergo medical bankruptcies actually have insurance, they’re just told to go fuck themselves.)

This bill is a farce, and Obama bending over before his good friend Joe Lieberman proves we supported the wrong guy in the primary. At least Hillary has some guts.
Amused Observer says:

December 16, 2009 at 11:39 pm

Jaim,
We often (almost always) have our differences. On a serious vein what are your desired outcomes for healthcare. Mine would be to maintain the quality of care we now get, the status quo on costs is high but I’d rather have that then decreased quality subject to government approval of care. I don’t beleive the true cost could do anything but go up with increased government intervention if you truly calculate the costs of that intervention.
Jaim says:

December 16, 2009 at 11:49 pm

I think a mandate is a good thing as long as it comes with a public option — the government offering affordable plans (not free ones) so that private insurers could stop gouging us. A mandate with no public option looks like what we’re going to get. This is a literal hand-out to private insurers from the wallets of every American. Every American will be forced to hand over their money, but there’s no guarantee of cost control or further that the practice of denying people expensive surgeries or medicines will be stopped. Why would it? As long as we have for-profit health care in America, people will be denied the health care they need. And all of this is before you consider uninsured people who can’t afford private plans. So they wait until the tumor is the size of a tennis ball, go to the ER, and have ultra expensive procedures done that are far more costly than it would have been if they’d had access to an annual check-up.

What we need is single payer. America pays more for weaker health care than other first world countries. France, Japan, Canada, you name it — other countries provide better, cheaper health care. (For starters, feel free to look at average life expectancies. America is pretty low down the list among first world nations.) Further, thousands of people who have insurance get fucked over routinely by private insurers because obviously, paying to make people healthy is expensive. The “quality of care we now get” is entirely contingent on whether or not a business person, not a doctor, thinks your required surgery or medication is not going to be expensive. And for this simple reason America absolutely does not have the best health care system in the world.

As far as I can tell, the Liberman/Obama bill coming out of the Senate is a step backwards, not forwards, to single payer.
Amused Observer says:

December 17, 2009 at 12:43 am

I appreciate your answers although I do not agree with them. In my experience Doctors order what they please whether or not insurance is going to kick in or not. There is a wall between the payment side and the treatment side of the hospital. In my state it is illegal to deny treatment because of ability to pay. Hospitals eat an amazing amount of money.

Access to medication is an issue where insurance can make a meaningful difference in quality of care. the statistics on life expectancy are a bit misleading. I think it more useful to look at survival rates for various treatments, operations, etc.

I think singlepayer will degrade the quality of care and will lead to even more nannystate restrictions on individual freedom and liberty. If your habits or desires don’t meet govt. approval many choices will be made for you instead of by you.
Jaim says:

December 17, 2009 at 1:39 am

Where single payer exists, none of these things happen. And people live longer than Americans.