Just a mo, you’re gonna treat sick IMMIGRANTS too?!

…you vile evil monster.  You must be Hitler.

Let’s be clear here, one of the latest arguments against Obama’s healthcare reforms is that he will insure what the Americans call ‘illegal aliens’ for healthcare.  I mean what the fuck dude?  You must be out of your tree there!

Putting aside the fact that, knowing that his country had way too many shits willing to oppose it, Obama never suggested that aliens should be allowed healthcare too (The truth is a minor point in this whole row), what kind of monster would suggest that everyone should be allowed healthcare?

Well, I would.  Here in the jolly old flawed (apparently) socialist UK, where we all wait four years to have our appendix out and literally seven people die every second from medical neglect because of an Obaman health care system that is coincidentally almost nothing like what is proposed in America anyway, anyone can enter a hospital emergency department and request treatment for an injury and receive it.  Whilst it’s true that this may expose illegal immigrants in the country, they are at least offered this help if it’s necessary.  Fucking socialist wankers that we all are (It’s true, some Texan communist said so on the news.  I mean, he doesn’t call himself a communist, but that’s their clever trick isn’t it?  Burn the witches while we’re at it!).  Why would we offer health care to immigrants? Well…

Putting aside the fact that this was never actually suggested by the Obama administration, (I would call it an inconvenient truth, but Al Gore ruined that phrase by inconveniently lying, the inconvenient twat), the main reason to offer health care of at least some sort to everyone is because it’s a fundamental human right.  The Geneva convention includes bits about not aiming at health care targets, and offering health care to prisoners of war and the UN Declaration of Human Rights, to which the US is of course a signatory, if only by default (i.e. they’re a member of the UN).

25.1 Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

It looks to me like the US is already in breach of this requirement of UN code, with it’s “Better hope you’re not too poor for health insurance system”, but fortunately for them everyone is too poor to do anything about it.

As so many protesters against the reforms have said, it’s “un-American”, and so am I.

Thank fuck for that.

Related posts:

1. American Healthcare – A brief and uninterested overview