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missroserose) wrote2009-09-02 02:00 pm
missroserose) wrote2009-09-02 02:00 pm
Garrison Keillor on getting a public option passed
Nobody called in to the show to suggest that the knee operation on the 14-year-old golden retriever...shows a level of caring far beyond what we extend to three-fourths of the world's human population.
[...] Perhaps there should be a public pet option.
There was real sympathy for the parent of the bassets with the adrenal deficiency, whereas the 48 million uninsured Americans (of whom two-thirds come from a family with at least one full-time worker) are merely a big fat statistic and so far Democrats have failed to produce a poster child. We can sort of imagine the misery of walking into an emergency room with no money, no plastic, no Blue Cross card, and trying to obtain treatment for some ailment that doesn't involve bone fragments protruding from the skin, but it doesn't speak to the heart the way an injured dog does.
Sad but true.
[...] Perhaps there should be a public pet option.
There was real sympathy for the parent of the bassets with the adrenal deficiency, whereas the 48 million uninsured Americans (of whom two-thirds come from a family with at least one full-time worker) are merely a big fat statistic and so far Democrats have failed to produce a poster child. We can sort of imagine the misery of walking into an emergency room with no money, no plastic, no Blue Cross card, and trying to obtain treatment for some ailment that doesn't involve bone fragments protruding from the skin, but it doesn't speak to the heart the way an injured dog does.
Sad but true.