San Francisco, A Laughable Liberal Loopy-Land Totally Out Of Touch With Mainstream American Values.

American values like if you are sick and not worthy, you should just suffer and/or die. Preferably in a way that does not inconvenience your social betters. From today's New York Times:

Since contracting polio at age 2, Yan Ling Ho has lived with pain for most of her 52 years. After she immigrated here from Hong Kong last year, the soreness in her back and joints proved too debilitating for her to work.

That also meant she did not have health insurance. Not wanting to burden her daughter, who was already paying her living expenses, Ms. Ho delayed doctors’ visits and battled her misery with over-the-counter medications.

“Sometimes the pain was so bad, I would just cry,” she said. “I didn’t know what else to do.”

USA!..... USA!...... USA! The land where if you're rich it's because you deserve it and if you're poor it's because you deserve it. America at the turn of the 21st century is the land of individual responsibility Yan Ling Ho, and if you end up on the wrong side of our kiss-up, kick-down society, then you're just gonna have to get kicked. You probably just came here looking for the glamorous life of an American welfare recipient anyway. Just an immegant who probly dont neven speak English good.

Sound familiar? Of course it does. We all know someone who read that last paragraph and took it seriously. Their ilk has been running the country since the time of Reagan.

Fortunately Yan Ling Ho landed in a place out of touch with mainstream American values. That part wasn't a joke. Back to the Times:

Last month, unable to bear her discomfort any longer, Ms. Ho went to North East Medical Services, a nonprofit community clinic on the edge of Chinatown, and discovered to her delight that she qualified for a new program that offers free or subsidized health care to all 82,000 San Francisco adults without insurance.

The initiative, known as Healthy San Francisco, is the first effort by a locality to guarantee care to all of its uninsured, and it represents the latest attempt by state and local governments to patch a inadequate federal system.

A place that treats pain rather than inflicts it. I'm not sure how much more out of touch with mainstream American values you could get really.

"Fucking liberal Drugmonkey" I hear you saying. "If bleeding heart wussy's like you were in charge, my taxes would be so high I wouldn't bother to work"

Tangerine M. Brigham, the program’s director, projects that it will cost $200 million the first year, and Mr. Newsom expects to finance it without a tax increase. The city already spends about that much on care for the uninsured, and that money will essentially be redirected to Healthy San Francisco.

Wow, Mr. defender of the taxpayer......you could not be more wrong. I'm sure that won't stop your frothing at the mouth though. You see, it costs less cover someone's Advair inhaler than it does to treat them at the ER for status asthmatics, but you don't care about that. If we gave you a shot of truth serum, what we'd find out is that your ranting isn't about taxes at all. What's important to you is to have someone lower on the social ladder to make you feel better about yourself, and if every sick person can get the same treatment as you, then that erodes away some of your self-esteem.

I will remind you though, that many health problems are contagious.

So if you're from Mississippi, Alabama, Tex-ass, or any of the other bastions of red-state America, and you think of California as the land of fruits and nuts, by all means stay away. That includes when you can't afford your Blue Cross premiums anymore and the bird flu comes.

Yan Ling Ho will be covered. You can lie in the bed you made.