Stalkin' Malkin's hypocrisy on health care

[dancingme]

Malkin talking about her family on August 27, 2004:

I certainly am not convinced that a government-run system is the answer, but I do agree with Krugman that there are serious problems with our health insurance system, particularly in the market for individually-purchased (non-group) coverage.

After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad), we had a choice. We could either buy health insurance from his former employer through a program called COBRA at a cost of more than $1,000 per month(!) or we could go it alone in Maryland’s individual market. Given our financial circumstances, that “choice” wasn’t much of a choice at all. We had to go on our own.

We discovered that the most generous plans in Maryland’s individual market cost $700 per month yet provide no more than $1,500 per year of prescription drug coverage–a drop in the bucket if someone in our family were to be diagnosed with a serious illness.

With health insurance choices like that, no wonder so many people opt to go uninsured.

Malkin talking about Graeme Frost on October 9, 2007:

The bottom line remains:

This family made choices. Choices have consequences. Taxpayers of lesser means should not be forced to subsidize them.

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[acmavm]

1. Someday (if the world survives) people will look back on this

era and try to figure out if ignorance, hypocrisy, and lying were admirable traits for our times.

[chelsea0011]

2. There is a whole group out there who are not happy as long as

they can find someone to criticize and hate. It is though they believe that we should all divest all our meager holdings and live in a tent so we can pay for health insurance. They consider that a good choice?

[ccpup]

3. especially considering

according to Ezra Klein -- http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2007/10/guess-the-autho.html -- one of the things Miss Malkin tries to excoriate the Frosts over (their inability to get private insurance) is also a thing Miss Malkin and her family had a difficult time accomplishing as well!

[dancingme]

4. doesn't Malkin blog from her home?

why does her husband have to stay home and take care of the kids if she doesn't actually go to a job? Just wondering.

[Yael]

5. Good find. Thanks.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Only people who have a choice "opt".

Most people who don't have health insurance don't "opt". Unlike the Malkins who opted when her husband quit his job they're just plain SOL.

[wicket]

7. She's such a sad, pathetic being

[SmokingJacket]

8. Wah, wah. When it hits home, these people suddenly turn into

tax and spend liberals.

It drives me totally batshit. 99% of the country can be suffering, starving on her doorstep, but she won't give a shit until her own perfect life is affected.

I'm beginning to think that the solution to our problems is a required public service program that makes people earn and live on $15,000 a year for two to three years while living in depressed parts of the country. You have to knock empathy into some people's heads with a hammer.

[dancingme]

10. they are the selfish ones

not progressive people.

[NMMNG]

9. It's all so different when it affects them

When it's other people their attitude is "suck it up".