Heather Graham Is Not The Public Option
I'm not a political scientist. I know that might confuse a lot of you who have been reading this blog for awhile thinking that this was a blog about politics written by a prominent political scientist. Nope! I just happen to share Thomas Hobbes's opinion that Glenn Beck smells like farts. But so, I'm obviously not qualified to speak with any authority about the health care debate. Not that you need to be a political scientist to speak thoughtfully on the subject (oh boy, here come the rhetorical knots and the self-conscious loop-dee-loos), but I'm probably even less informed on the whole subject than your average regular scientist (those who study chemistry, biology, and Weird Science). I do think that children deserve health care. That seems like kind of a no-brainer to me. They are children after all. Tiny, helpless, wolf-suit wearing children. I also think that poor people should have health insurance. They are poor. There are a lot of things in their lives that are perpetual sources of misery. Their ability to remain among the living should not be one of them. Actually, you know what? I really think everyone deserves health care. It's 2009, you guys. If we can have realistic looking dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movie, surely we can fix people when they are broken.
But I understand that the issue is very complicated (kind of, I mean, people are making it very complicated on purpose), and certainly this PSA in which Heather Graham stars as the Public Option is not helping anything.
So all of the insurance companies need to put down the cheeseburgers, rip off their clothes, and chase after the girl in the (basically) Boogie Nights costume, because everyone deserves to have access to the stripper from The Hangover? Is it just me, or does Move On preach squarely and exclusively to the choir? (Also, that is your choir.)
Posted by Gabe at 10:15 AM in PSAs
Tags: Health Care Reform | Heather Graham | Politics
I feel like this needs a TWSS tag.
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Yeah, I don't see many Glenn Beckerites being all, "ya know, rollergirl has a good point. Running is American."
On second thought, they would miss the point that hard, so go for it!
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This PSA in which Heather Graham stars as the Public Option is definitely helping something, if you know what I mean. In my pants area.
Can't believe she's almost 40.
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She's almost forty!!!1!1!! That just ruined my day.
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I feel like using a nearly 40 year actress with no running experience as your metaphor isn't getting your message across very well. Like I don't know, I'd go with Usain Bolt over Felicity Shagwell.
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Girl's got level 7 Yoga skillz.
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oh man, golf is the WORST!
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At the end we need Corey Feldman saying "No thanks... I've got the public option."
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And Jennifer Tilly is 52. FIFTY-TWO, GABE!
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I wish I had something hilarious to say, but I don't. I will encourage everyone to listen to the last 2 weeks of This American Life, in which they explore the health-care reform issue. The shows are both very educational and highly entertaining.
Wait, I just thought of something hilarious... Call your congressman and tell them everyone deserves trampoline-accident coverage. This is AMERICA, people. AMIRITE?
Sorry.
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What occurs at 0:19 is horrifying.
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She had like a 30 foot head start but all those fat insurance companies caught up with her halfway through the race. so what this commercial is really saying is that the public option kinda sucks
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Yeah, I think the director of the video didn't actually understand the point of the video.
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Dude, no. The point of the public option isn't to blow away all the private insurers, thus putting them out of business. It's to "get them back into shape," forcing them to compete and thus making rates cheaper all around. So, in conclusion, yes, this is obviously a very confusing PSA.
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If competition is as American as apple pie, why don't we just revoke the health insurance industry's anti-trust exemptions, call it a day, and all go watch "Boogie Nights." Glen Beck can come, too! (Hi-yo!)
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Exactly!! There's something for everybody in this idea. Leftist dems get to sock it to the big bad insurance companies, conservative free-marketers can support more competition AND oppose big time deficit spending. As a right leaning hater of the GOP myself it would even be good for Dems to call the GOP on their bluff if they (GOP) are in fact in the pocket of the insurance industry as they (Dems) claim.
But the idea that a gov't run company will be efficient and force others to "get into shape" is laughable. Doctors won't take Medicaid because they lose money and waste time on paperwork that cuts by half the time they can see patients. The Post Office needs a bigger and bigger bailout every year. And Medicare is bleeding money and will be bankrupt in a few years. How would you like your insurance to be run like the DMV?
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I think the real winner of this race is Heather Graham's breasts. God bless America.
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Should a panel of Heather Graham's breasts decide whether to pull the plug on your dying grandmother? Yes they should.
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Is there an option to eat the rest of that guy's delicious delicious sandwhich?
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"Have you ever heard me play guitar, I'm really fucking good. You know what I'm not good at, talking about healthcare reform." John Mayer; "Have you ever seen me use parenthetical phrases, I'm really fucking good. You know what I'm not good at, talking about politics even though I am kind of good at it." Gabe Delahaye
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John Mayer is a stupid cockface. This is unrelated to the post but had to be said.
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That this seemed like a good idea to anyone is why meaningful (successful) reform will fail. Being right is a necessary but not sufficient condition to win this debate. You have to.. debate about it.
Also, Public Option = Heather Graham seems problematic as Heather Graham = Kind of an Idiot. At least, she has made a semi-lucrative career playing a variety of different idiot archetypes. I certainly don't think Heather Graham is a good idea.
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more like, public boner option.
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I'm kind of stuck on the ridiculous idea that there are actually minorities and female CEOs of big insurance companies.
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I feel like Andrea Rosen is in every commercial... Is this inaccurate? I think it's very accurate to say that she's in every commercial.
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