{"id":651,"date":"2007-10-03T17:08:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loafe.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2007-10-03T17:08:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T21:08:20","slug":"it-must-suck-to-be-a-smoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"it must suck to be a smoker."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all for expanding health care coverage and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2007\/10\/03\/bush_vetoes_child_health_insurance_plan\">giving more kids health insurance<\/a>, and believe me when I say I understand that gap between not qualifying for Medicaid and not having enough money for private coverage. <\/p>\n<p>\nBut I just read that the increase in funds required by the bill (just vetoed by Bush) would be covered by raising the tax on cigarettes to a $1 per pack. A whole fucking dollar! I&#8217;m not even a smoker and this outrages me. <\/p>\n<p>\nIt doesn&#8217;t seem fair to have cigarette smokers carry the burden. Shouldn&#8217;t health care coverage for our citizens be a shared responsibility? Are cigarette smokers somehow responsible for all our uninsured children? What insane logic is this? <\/p>\n<p>\nWhat this says is that someone like me, who doesn&#8217;t smoke but has an uninsured child (this is a lie to make my point, because ry is covered under my ridiculously expensive insurance at work, but he could just as easily not be covered), isn&#8217;t responsible in helping pay for my boy&#8217;s health coverage. Yet the single guy next door who chainsmokes and has no kids is supposed to do it? Isn&#8217;t it kind of my job to pay for my own kid? I made him, he&#8217;s my bed, and now I&#8217;ve got to lie in him. <\/p>\n<p>\nHmm. I should watch my use of mixed metaphors. <\/p>\n<p>\nAnyway. So while I support the purpose of the bill, I&#8217;m not a supporter of making the tarlungs pay for it. <\/p>\n<p>\nHow many dollars from the tobacco companies are sitting pretty in Bush&#8217;s pockets right now though, that&#8217;s what I want to know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all for expanding health care coverage and giving more kids health insurance, and believe me when I say I understand that gap between not qualifying for Medicaid and not&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}