Full Metal Jacket Crazy
Y’all, Louie Gohmert is doozy crazy. He’s now decided to drop all his health insurance to prove that Obamacare is no damn good.
Louie went on the electric teevee to try to contend that his health instance premium went up too much to afford it under Obamacare.
“Other people are going to see what I did when I looked into health insurance for my wife and me: that the deductible rate, it doubled, about $3,000 to $6,000, and our policy was going to go from about $300 to about $1,500 a month,” he said during a recent radio interview with Trey Graham, a pastor at First Melissa Baptist Church in Collin County. “I actually don’t have insurance right now, so thank you very much, Obamacare.”
I think Louie forgot that you can go to hell for lying, same as you can for stealin’ and fornicatin’. I have no idea where he got health insurance for $300 a month unless it was Big Bob’s Insurance and Cell Phone Hut and everybody knows Big Bob is a damn crook.
Ole Bubba paid $1,800 a month with a $5,000 deductible when he was 60 years old like Louie is now. Now Ole Bubba is on socialized medicine and thinks it’s dandy plus a nickel.
Now here’s the Louie kicker.
Gohmert is one of the poorest members of Congress, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. His most recent financial disclosure report shows no significant assets. With his mortgage and other loans, Gohmert has a negative net worth of about $162,000.
So, here’s a guy $162,000 in debt with no health insurance. Guess who is going to have to pay his medical bills if he gets sick? Either his kids or me and you. Mostly you because in Louie’s case I’m with those Republicans who want him to lay in the hospital parking lot and die.
Hey, no booing. It’s what Louie would want.
So he hates Obamacare and doesn’t have any health insurance right now? What about the federal health insurance for members of Congress? If he doesn’t have insurance, it’s because of his own ignorance. My, my, who would have guessed?
1Curious here. Do members of Congress have to pay anything for their insurance? I know that several years ago, Cong. Lloyd Doggett and his wife bought their own health insurance just like everyone else. He stood right there in front of a bunch of us and told us. And if one has to buy it, Louie’s negative worth might account for his not having insurance. Most insurance companies aren’t real generous about giving away insurance.
2Oh, I know where Big Bob’s Insurance and Cell Phone Hut is! It’s right next door to Grace L. Ferguson’s Airline and Storm Door Company.
(Apologies to Bob Newhart.)
3re: “Republicans who want him to lay in the hospital parking lot and die.”
Sadly sometimes one adds by subtracting. Like when Louie Lou Eye leaves an empty room and the room’s average IQ jumps up 50 points.
4@TexasTrailerParkTrash
5Just down from the Church of All Worlds and Radiator Repair Shop.
Welcome to America, Louie! You’ve sure been talking a lot of smack in your sleep. Now that you are sort of awake, take a deep breath and smell the health insurance industry. Many of our friends have policies through their work, but the co-pays and deductibles are so outrageous, they only use their plans in a true emergency.
Don’t like Obamacare? Fine. Fix it. Ask nice and I’ll write it for you: single-payer. Now scurry down the hall and lay that on the alcohol saturated Cheetos.
6Louis has a negative net worth? Reminds me of the line from Casablanca, where the prefect of police doesn’t want to wager 20,000 francs with Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and instead wants to make it 10,000.
“I’m only a poor corrupt official.”
Come to think of it, his name was Louis, too!
7Can’t remember where I saw the other day that folks in red states where the governors refused the Medicare aid from the Fed are in much worse shape than those in states that took it. Too bad this gohmert lives in one of those states; he might not be in such dire straits.
8From the linked article, he gets a $950 subsidy from the government so his cost is $600 a month for him and his wife which is a turrrible hardship on that congressman salary. Life is hard. Hope they at least passed the collection plate for him at the Melissa Baptist Church. Call it missionary expenses for aliens.
9Up to Jan 1, 2014 Congresscritters got government health insurance, same as most full time government non-military employees. They paid some percentage of this themselves, and $300 sounds about right (it is what I paid in the private sector as my share).
Jan 1, it stopped and they were required to get ACA, but they got a subsidy equivalent to what the government had been paying as their share, and $1500 total sounds about right, but about $1200 would be subsidized in some fashion.
Louie may not be bright enough to understand about the subsidy
10If he has a negative net worth, it sorta proves that he has no business getting anywhere near the management of the affairs of our government. We already knew he was worthless, and now he confirms it.
11I heard an Austin talk show caller on the radio during drive time this morning who assured us all that there will be Death Panels. Too bad that without Obamamcare, Louie can’t be a candidate for the Panel and will fer sure just be a vegetable in the hospital parking lot. Not that we will notice a difference.
12Let him bankrupt himself trying to prove his da*n point. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
13Ah, so Gohmert is … as you say in Texas … all hat and no cattle?
14Chihuahua! Louie ain’t impressing or convincing anyone about his health insurance. Once he is no longer on The Hill, he will have to pay out for all of it like the rest of us do. My son just got health insurance on his own, not through ACA, and a separate and very inexpensive dental policy to keep the big one company for $400 a month. Why didn’t he go through ACA? Well, our state had a governor that thought the expanded Medicaid Obama was offering was a tool of the devil. There was no way son could have gotten to first base in this state with the situation like it is. We have our fingers crossed with the new blue governor. And hoping for a miracle with the red legislature.
15Louie should really change his name to Looney.
16That would be SO appropriate.