Mr. President, if I may speak freely, the Russkie talks big, but frankly, we think he's short of know how. I mean, you just can't expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of our boys.
-Air Force General Buck Turgidson
I dare you to read about
Hillary Clinton's healthcare proposal and come to her estimation that "We have so much unnecessary cost in our system" without laughing bitterly. The plan is quite plainly nuts, modelled on a Massachusetts plan that is also plainly nuts (not to mention demonstrably ineffectual). She proposes that the federal government will mandate that every citizen purchase health "insurance" from a private company, excepting those who presumably means-test into a Medicare-type subsidy, and the federal government will moderate the mandate by capping out-of-pocket expenditures by individuals and families at a percentage of income, however you define income, and that cost inflation driven by insurers' profit-seeking will be constrained by requiring that they spend 85% of their revenue from premiums on actual "health care," however you define care, wherein there is a huge, infernal devil of details. In other words, as the dauphin likes to say, we are going to have exactly the same system as we currently do, now with 15% more accounting!
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A single payer system seems to be the only viable way..
But we, as Americans, would screw that up 100%, too. The only viable way is to get rid of medical licensing and the FDA and the DEA. The ignorant will turn to cheap "treatments" by woo-woo cranks and faith healers (and eat poisonous, but cheap, food), the rich will eat their certified organic cuisine and visit real doctors, and within a few generations, the population in the United States will be back down to 100 million or so where it should be. :) :)
remember how the government went through nasa's web site and added the word "theory" after every mention of big bang? (it was around the same time they were telling nasa climate scientists to stfu.)
well, this is kind of the same, and we can all play along at home. whenever you think of "health care," replace the word "care" with "insurance."
now you're all politically corrected up, and allowed to join in the adult conversation!
What montag said....
Word that.
Mike
Every time you look at one of these clusterfuck plans, and respond with the obvious, "Why don't you just do single payer, like they do in every other developed democracy on the planet," the Dem health care groupies will start falling all over each other to say how silly and irresponsible and pie-in-the-sky that is, because you just can't do that here, the only way to do it is to build a massive Rube Goldberg device by stapling government mandates and subsidies onto the already-existing, already-fucked system. And then it's smooth sailing from there, because nothing can possibly go wrong with a system that forces me to buy health insurance I can't afford in order to subsidize the insurance of someone wealthier than me and then tells me not to sweat it because the check's in the mail.
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