2 cents: Health Care Bill

I am a very firm believer that when it comes to the government informing the people on the (actual) realities of laws, bills, events, wars, etc., only about 10% of the truth ever really graces the ears and eyes of the public. After it has passed through it's elongated barrage of politicians, lobbyists, paid media advisers, legal jargon, actual media producers and onto the TV, internet or (god forbid) printed newspaper; it has become so diluted, that anything realistic sits like a light haze on the surface of the ocean.

So with that in mind, let's jump on the social hot button of Health Care Reform and make uneducated opinions about something we will never actually know anything about until someone can make a profit off the truth. And away we go...

Some general statistics are this:

Over 60% of bankruptcies in the US are caused by overwhelming medical expenses.

Over 70% of these bankruptcies belong to people who had medical insurance.

That means that even though people had medical insurance, they were still raped down to the very core by the cost of trying to get healthy. Basically, they could of had health insurance or not, the prices were so monumental that the one system set up to prevent this from happening fails over 70% of the time.

The American people are slaves to the medical world because no one wants to get sick and die. We all want to cling to life as much as possible as well as live as comfortably as possible. Hence, medical billing pretty much goes unchallenged because the fear of, "Hey if we weren't here, you'd all be dying... and not quiet and peaceful dying but bleeding from the asshole screaming agony dying!"

President Obama, poor deluded man that he is, is attempting to help the people of this sick country to find a way to have affordable health care for all. Sounds like a great strategy. In fact, in my perusal of the health care bill through the endless media super-filter has shown that it is not a bad plan and may in fact help those who are clinging to the hope that one day a doctor may help them and not bully them out of their every possession. Might get people healthier because they won't be so afraid of the doctor and put us up their in the ranks of places like Canada, (who may actually give a quantum of a shit about it's inhabitants.)

Yet, once again, we are simply dragging another bureaucratic band-aid over a festering pile of cancer.

No government official (well lasting government official) will ever say, "Well shit guys, maybe we wouldn't have so many issues about health, health care and insurance if the cost of medical care hadn't sky rocketed out of control? Maybe we should cap all the mother fuckers off at the 100% mark up limit and then see how that turns out?" Once again, someones making a profit so there is no answer.

If there was a shred of decency left by our elected officials, they would look to sources of the problems instead of layering another film of bills over the top of it. It's like saying the reason there is so much drunk driving accidents is because the cars are not being made to handle the riggers of being driven by someone who is under the influence.

Now we get into the counter arguments: prices get marked up because of malpractice insurance and those cruel and ruthless illegal immigrants who steal all their dynamite health care. Here's another question? Does anybody else get malpractice insurance? If a lawyer loses a case, does it come out of his pocket? If the mechanic fucks up your car, does he have insurance for when it catches fire on your way home? No, they fucking have to pay for it! If a lawyer fucks up because of incompetence, they disbar him, if the mechanic causes a serious problem because of negligence the shop pays for the replacement, or worse yet sends the fucker to prison. There is no safety net. Not to mention the fact if either of these guys fuck up, you twist in the wind anyways, so what's the deal?

Hell, I say we offer them a trade. You can charge whatever you want, but malpractice comes out of your pocket... you also get the right to refuse any medical practice you don't feel confident enough in performing. There you go, they are taking on all the risk, that means you can open the flood gates and push those price tags to the max! However, if you get a safety net, then you have to charge a small margin above cost (let's be generous with 50%) and then you can do whatever your hearts content is with patients. "Go at your own risk," hospitals! That's catchy.

As of now, they have it both ways. The safety net and the price freedom and the "go at your own risk" hospitals. Win-Win all the way around. Not to mention each avenue perfectly justifies the other:

High Medical Mark Ups - "Hey that malpractice insurance is expensive..."
Malpractice Costs - "Really high, so we gotta have it..."
Go at your own risk - "It isn't an exact science..."

With immense greed there is no cure for the common man. When dollars are attached there is never right or wrong, or justice and injustice, there is only lies and a price tag.

What can be done? (This is my cue for the tips!)

Accept Death

You are going to fucking die and it is going to be painful and terrifying and nothing can be done about it! Breathe it in! Accept it. There is a reason warriors in ancient Japan were taught to imagine their death constantly. This kind of thinking pulls out your reliance on someone else swooping in and making it better and focuses it on self-reliance and accepting that which you can not control. That is step number one, before all others. You also have to realize that this is true for everyone around you as well and will prep you for their eventual departure.

Sick is sick, it is also a Marketing tool

It is amazing how many waves of sickness can be translated into viable revenue streams. How often have you seen commercials that promote vague symptoms and unknown inner workings in order to coax you into an impromptu medical exam or medication? The reason why is that so many of us don't utilize the tip above (see above) and are so scared of their deaths (or just dying... or hell just being physically uncomfortable) that they will leap at any suggestion that indicates illness. However, once your past infancy, unless their is a flesh eating virus that you have personally seen eat the face off of the guy on the bus in front of you, maybe you should drop a dime on any "sick-fads" that come happening down the boob-tube.

Pain thresholds Elongate life spans

There are actually quite a few people who I think need a little pain and suffering. Many need to a have a few colds and flus and viruses to allow their bodies to build up some natural fucking defense instead of constant runs to the ER. There are quite a few extremely healthy people who never got sick until they went to the doctor. Weigh the options.

Stop Making up diseases!

Obesity is not a disease. There are no enzymes in the human body the pump out constant amounts of unyielding nutrition that eventual builds the body to bursting. LET THEM DIE! If people lack the ability to stop eating then 1) they are not poor and 2) they will never be cured. You have to rank them right up with child molesters, to where if they can't tell this is wrong, maybe they shouldn't be here. This also goes with these made up inverse diseases like bulimia and anorexia, if people can not compute the necessity for eating, then feed them to the obese. Believe me, there are a lot of people who know how to eat, eat properly and can't because their isn't any fucking food! The cost for these so called diseases range in the $100 billion a year... enough to provide every citizen of the US with full health care coverage from their date of birth. In fact, you can bury all the drug addicts, suiciders, smokers and alcoholics with them.

Yet, as I said, who knows what is true and what is not any more. As far as you or I really know, health care could cost $10 a year per person, the rest profit. Do you think anyone is really going to tell you true or false, especially if they are getting cuts of the pie? All I know is that when my doctor goes home, he is not going anywhere near my street, eating any of the same foods, wearing the same clothes or counting the change in the couch like I am. Neither is his insurance agent.

All things to think about while you waste your time worrying about a "new bill" that you have no say, control or power over. So get back to work.