Big business is jumping on the universal health care wagon. What do the likes of Safeway, Del Monte, Heinz, Kimberley-Clark, PepsiCo, Clorox, Norfolk Southern, GlaxoSmithKline, Aetna, Eli Lilly, Cigna, and Kraft Foods, all members of Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform (CAHR), have in mind for universal health care? (Emphasis mine.)The Coalition has endorsed five core principles to guide health care reform. Reforms must result in a market-based health care system; individuals must carry mandated health insurance coverage; coverage for low-income individuals will be subsidized; reforms must include strong personal financial incentives for adopting healthy behaviors; and the difference in tax treatment between employer-provided and individual health insurance policies must be eliminated. As principles go these are pretty good, but how they are worked out in practice makes all the difference.No freakin' way! No! No! No! ARGH! This makes me hurt all over. Individuals must carry mandated health insurance coverage and a magazine called Reason dares to call these principles 'pretty good'. Nuts! This nation has gone ape shit bonkers if people actually think mandated health insurance is a 'pretty good' idea. That would be akin to scrapping Social Security and mandating everyone have a 401k with minimum contribution requirements. And what are they going to do if you are an outlaw and refuse to carry insurance? Will they put you in jail for breaking the law where the tax payers will be forced to pick up your health care tab that you may or may not want? God damn fucking world gone mad. Repeated Expletives? Fuck! Seriously. What the fuck kind of morons can even pretend this is a good idea? I could understand a desire for socialized medicine. While I am against it in a tax burden sense it at least makes humanitarian sense. But mandated health insurance coverage is the one thing worse than what we've got now. Not only can you not afford to go to the doctor but now you won't be able to afford to go to the shitty ass doctor in your crappy HMO plan even though you have to pay for your insurance. Brilliant! And how the fuck are the Christian Scientists going to feel about that? Of course I am assuming that mandatory coverage will only be usable at approved clinics and hospitals that meet the strictest of standards as set forth by an independent panel hand selected by the insurance companies and handed over for approval to some puppet government agency meant to make us feel all warm and cozy about mandated monthly rectal probing.
Whatever is not compulsory is forbidden. Whatever is not forbidden is compulsory. God damn fucking shit. Have I made myself clear? God damn fucking shit! If anything like this comes to pass, consider me a 'Needle Bandito'.
6 comments:
Glad to see you living up to the blog's name, Jake. :)
I think the nurse is kinda cute. What's her name? I am not concerned about health care because when the aliens invade we will all be going Mad Max style anyway. I wanna be the toothy dork with the tiny helicopter.
I like to save up my profanities for when the situation demands it. When the time is right, you don't even have to think about it.
And Brad, it's probably the aliens behind this kind of bullshit. It isn't a nefarious plan devised to screw people over. It's a bunch of coked up aliens pulling a prank on the stupid domesticated monkeys. At least I hope it is.
It's been proven that red wine and frequent sex improves health and longevity. Can I spend my healthcare premium on booze and floozies?
"strong personal financial incentives for adopting healthy behaviors"
I think that means your floozies will have to be in Olympic condition. Crack whores are not in the preferred provider organization.
Why am I suddenly thinking about beach vollyball?
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