{"id":10938,"date":"2012-03-09T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2012-03-17T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:24:57","slug":"is-not-getting-sick-while-not-having-insurance-the-new-teen-abstinence-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/blog\/?p=10938","title":{"rendered":"Is not getting sick while not having insurance the new teen abstinence pledge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the “Party of Personal Responsibility’ we bring you Ms Mary Brown, 56, from the great state of Florida. Mary here, who owned and operated a two-employee auto-repair shop in Panama City, Fla., \u00a0is the lead plaintiff in the National Federation of Independent Business\u2019s lawsuit to overturn The Affordable Healthcare Act, which is expected to be heard later this month by the lunatics of the Supreme Court. See, Mary she ain\u2019t\u00a0want<\/em> insurance, Ain\u2019t no uppity blackie tellin\u2019 her what to do. But Ms Brown has a lot to answer for. It has been revealed that she\u00a0accidentally neglected to inform the good folks over at NFIB <\/a>that\u00a0her rinky dink business went bankrupt. Why did Mary Brown – who I’m sure is a shrewd and brilliant entrepreneur par excellence <\/em>– have to file for bankruptcy? Why does anyone go bankrupt? Unpaid medical bills, duh. Ms Personal Responsibility’s\u00a0only income is $275 a month in unemployment benefits.\u00a0Mary responded to the\u00a0LA Times<\/em>\u2018 inquiry \u00a0in customary Teabaggerly fashion of \u00a0hideous, inarticulate spewings of fat white rage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Said a lawyer for the NFIB to the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Brown \u201cdoesn\u2019t have insurance. She doesn\u2019t want to pay for it. And she doesn\u2019t want the government to tell her she has to have it.\u201d\u00a0Taint right! Its in the fuckin’ Constitution and shit, dickhead!<\/p>\n

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But court records reveal that Brown and her husband filed for bankruptcy last fall with $4,500 in unpaid medical bills. Those bills could change Brown from a symbol of proud independence into an example of exactly the problem the healthcare law was intended to address.<\/p>\n

[…] Obama administration lawyers argue that the requirement is justified because everyone, sooner or later, needs healthcare. Those who fail to have insurance are at high risk of running up bills they cannot pay, sticking the rest of society with the cost, they argue. Brown\u2019s situation, they say, is a perfect example of exactly that kind of \u201cuncompensated care that will ultimately be paid by others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown, reached by telephone Thursday, said the medical bills were her husband\u2019s. \u201cI always paid my bills, as well as my medical bills,\u201d she said angrily. […] \u201cWho says I don\u2019t have insurance right now?\u201d<\/p>\n

“‘There was time pressure’ to find a plaintiff for the case, Harned [a lawyer for the National Federation of Independent Business] said. ‘And candidly, it is not as easy as it sounds’ to find someone. She recalls that Brown was outspoken and stepped forward as a volunteer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brown intends to stumble blindly forward as a plaintiff before the Supreme Court. As her lawyers at the NFIB maintain – doubtless before kicking their dogs – \u201c[A]s long as she doesn\u2019t want healthcare, she qualifies as a plaintiff in our mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A batshit crazy loser from Florida in a Hawaiian shirt size XXXL is\u00a0the alleged plaintiff but she doesn’t have the money to pay her attorneys.\u00a0And the right wing nutz have the nerve to call Sandra Fluke a plant.<\/p>\n

This might be the Republicans best argument: Why should you be forced to have health insurance, when you can just not pay the bills and stick them to the state on your own?<\/p>\n

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