Kwazy
Shared on Mon, 02/12/2007 - 17:17Salutations, Dear Reader! Better start with the post below this one if you want to know what’s going on.
I was all set to begin a rant today blasting the evil whores at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. I was going to make reference to the snail tracks the administers of that hell-hole must surely leave everywhere they ooze. But I’m not going to. These people after all, are just the bottom-feeders. They’re the exploiters, the pneumonia from the AIDS, the secondary infection. When the street thugs bash the old man over the head and take his watch and wallet, they’re the ones who slink over afterwards to steal his belt and shoes. They’re opportunists, and they’re enabled by exactly one thing:
You. Me. Us. Because we allow this to happen.
The United States is pretty much the only first-world country on the planet that does not provide some sort of minimum universal health care to its citizens. Let’s look at the Group of Eight, also known as the G8. The G8 compose the eight most powerful countries on the planet. Together, these companies compose 65% of the total world economy. Let’s run through them and check if they provide basic, guaranteed health-care for their citizens:
Canada Yup
France Yup
Germany Yup
Italy Yup
Japan Yup
Russia Kind of....there’s barely any healthcare in Russia to start with
United Kingdom Yup
United States Nope, go fuck yourself
Usually at this point in the conversation one or two arguments is offered from the gallery. The first of which is:
“But you’re forgetting about Medicare/Medicaid.” Um, yes. Just ask the guy dragging himself down the street how well they work out. The sad point is that more often than not, if this homeless guy is male, he is also veteran. Thanks for your service, pal! The next point of conjecture is usually:
“I know people in Canada. They say they’ve got to get on a waiting list 743 people long to have a wart removed.” Well, in certain circumstances that may be accurate. The main difference here is nobody ever died because they had a wart on their ass. Likewise, nobody ever died because the pharmaceutical companies charged 20 times the fair market value for wart medication. Furthermore, just because you have basic public healthcare provided doesn’t mean that those with the means can’t spend more for private care. The hospitals are already money-making ventures, it’s not like it would be a new concept for them.
In following this “rule of twos,” I’ve found that there are generally two types of people who oppose this subsistence level of medical coverage. They are rich people and stupid people. Rich people don’t give a shit and don’t want their taxes raised to care for their common man. The simple fact that the money is already there and that it’s just being misspent on ill-advised modern day colonialism seems to escape them. The stupid people, on the other hand just simply don’t recognize what’s in their own best interest. This is typified by the “I’d rather die a horrible death than to have some pinko-commie socialism shit gone on here.” With any luck, these people will just eventually fail to win the natural selection game show. A perfect example of this is the book What’s the Matter with Kansas. I guess it’s entirely possible, and likely, for a person to both be stupid and rich. I am especially scared of these people.
I really want to yell and scream some more, but my wife wants something...has wanted something for ten minutes...and I’m even more scared of her.
I was all set to begin a rant today blasting the evil whores at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. I was going to make reference to the snail tracks the administers of that hell-hole must surely leave everywhere they ooze. But I’m not going to. These people after all, are just the bottom-feeders. They’re the exploiters, the pneumonia from the AIDS, the secondary infection. When the street thugs bash the old man over the head and take his watch and wallet, they’re the ones who slink over afterwards to steal his belt and shoes. They’re opportunists, and they’re enabled by exactly one thing:
You. Me. Us. Because we allow this to happen.
The United States is pretty much the only first-world country on the planet that does not provide some sort of minimum universal health care to its citizens. Let’s look at the Group of Eight, also known as the G8. The G8 compose the eight most powerful countries on the planet. Together, these companies compose 65% of the total world economy. Let’s run through them and check if they provide basic, guaranteed health-care for their citizens:
Canada Yup
France Yup
Germany Yup
Italy Yup
Japan Yup
Russia Kind of....there’s barely any healthcare in Russia to start with
United Kingdom Yup
United States Nope, go fuck yourself
Usually at this point in the conversation one or two arguments is offered from the gallery. The first of which is:
“But you’re forgetting about Medicare/Medicaid.” Um, yes. Just ask the guy dragging himself down the street how well they work out. The sad point is that more often than not, if this homeless guy is male, he is also veteran. Thanks for your service, pal! The next point of conjecture is usually:
“I know people in Canada. They say they’ve got to get on a waiting list 743 people long to have a wart removed.” Well, in certain circumstances that may be accurate. The main difference here is nobody ever died because they had a wart on their ass. Likewise, nobody ever died because the pharmaceutical companies charged 20 times the fair market value for wart medication. Furthermore, just because you have basic public healthcare provided doesn’t mean that those with the means can’t spend more for private care. The hospitals are already money-making ventures, it’s not like it would be a new concept for them.
In following this “rule of twos,” I’ve found that there are generally two types of people who oppose this subsistence level of medical coverage. They are rich people and stupid people. Rich people don’t give a shit and don’t want their taxes raised to care for their common man. The simple fact that the money is already there and that it’s just being misspent on ill-advised modern day colonialism seems to escape them. The stupid people, on the other hand just simply don’t recognize what’s in their own best interest. This is typified by the “I’d rather die a horrible death than to have some pinko-commie socialism shit gone on here.” With any luck, these people will just eventually fail to win the natural selection game show. A perfect example of this is the book What’s the Matter with Kansas. I guess it’s entirely possible, and likely, for a person to both be stupid and rich. I am especially scared of these people.
I really want to yell and scream some more, but my wife wants something...has wanted something for ten minutes...and I’m even more scared of her.
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