health care

HEALTH CARE
As I was wildly swinging my golden sword of righteousness in the herd lot, trying desperately to slaughter more sacred cows, it seems I was too busy to notice the villagers arming themselves with pitchforks and torches so as to fight back. Fine, you can keep your cattle alive for now. But I'll be back ( this refers to yesterday's outright mutiny of once loyal minions in the comments section ). Oh yes, I'll be back.
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Pravda Radio simply can't get enough of our Black Knight On A White Horse Sir Obammy. This morning they replayed his gushing endorsement for reelection of our central banker head Helicopter Ben. Yesterday was yet another propaganda onslaught for his health care plan. Not content to double our national debt in his first six months in office ( I hope you all realize Obammy is a simple puppet just as Baby Bush was ), he wants to spend a crap load of money on a national health care plan. Most folks don't like the idea of national health care. If you've ever been in the military, chances are good you got a taste of government run medical care. Think of the Post Office with two lines. One has aspirin for all problems, the other is a long waiting list to get anything else done. I was actually less impressed with an Indian ( dot, not feather ) dentist on my second to last insurance plan ( he was, literally, the only one taking the insurance in the Daytona Beach metro area ) than I ever was with a military dentist. And my run ins with the medical personnel were always positive. I don't think it was the people, just the system. But of course, that is the whole military. A better example, as given by a loyal minion, is the Indian ( feather, not dot ) health care service which is probably as good as their rancid meat rations used to be when the agents used their posts to get rich rather than help their charges.
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Now, we all hate communists. As Americans, it is our duty to despise the inability to get rich off the taxpayer ( robber barons would build a railroad for, say, $45 million and charge the government about $90 million ). Perhaps that is the whole role of democrats and liberal pukes. Stampede the cattle into the fascists camp. Propose socialized solutions so everyone instead embraces mercantilism policies. Let's go back and revisit yesteryear. Auto insurance was perhaps mandated by the finance company, but if your car was paid for you didn't need insurance. Over the years, one state after another made auto insurance mandatory. Some states have elaborate computer databases tracking in real time the insured status of a vehicle. Talk about getting the taxpayer to subsidize your private company. I know a lot of lawyers, being the lower bowel parasites that they are, benefited off all the litigation with wrecks and such, but the clear winner here was the insurance industry. Let's call it 200 million drivers in the US. Times that by $50 a month, at least.
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So here's my thought. Scare the people with nationalized medicine. Get them all worked up, frothing at the bit. Then, go with a "compromise" and announce you will stay with private medical providers. They only need participate with a centralized computer network, perhaps after the French model with their smart chip card and digital records. Crow about the German model where something like 200 different companies offer insurance on a competing basis ( CEO's bonus' based on the number of people signing up ). Point out how much better that is than the Canadian/British civil servant doctors. Of course, for your own good, for the good of the children, it will have to be mandatory coverage. So everyone pays his fair share ( except Congressmen who get it free ). Don't mention all the illegal immigrants jacking up the price of free emergency room care. Or the complexities in the system making 20% of the cost due to administration needs. Or the senior medicine subsidy that encourages waste. Or the lawyer cost, the malpractice insurance. No, just focus on the economics of scale that will magically materialize, along with the supposed savings from computerization.
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What this is, basically, is simply the bail out of the insurance industry. And it won't be thirty of fifty billion from the feds like Detroit got. It will be hundreds of billions directly from our pockets. No middleman, no borrowing the money and never paying it back, just everybody somehow having to squeeze a bit more blood from a stone to come up with another mandatory insurance expense. Yes, I'm sure there will be some people that don't have to pay. Some government subsidize. Some way to opt out. After all, you can choose not to drive, right? Nothing compulsory there. You can choose not to get medical treatment. Right now, there is a huge free giveaway in the form of ER room treatment. The patients don't pay, paying patients elsewhere see jacked up costs. That is a huge waste of potential profits. We must close that loophole so that corporations can stay in business. We must bail out the insurance industry or terrible things will happen. Perhaps the banks can't afford to buy them out when their derivatives positions go belly up. So it is up to us, the idiots making squat. Happy joy.
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