Just Like Jesse James
There’s Health Care reform in the USA! Hip Hip Hurray! (Ow, my hip!) well, after all the red tape there will be. Maybe some white tape too. No doubt this move is purportedly an improvement. Something feels off – most human group efforts do. Smacks of somebody getting their usual big payday. If I were able to read the fine print on legal documents, I wouldn’t be here typing. I’d be running up billable hours, you betcha. Of course, if you want to read the invisible words on US documents you need Nic Cage and Diane Krueger (oh ja!).
Let me get this straight: having health insurance has been made “affordable.” Also, mandatory. Who says what is affordable? Seems a bit Nazi like to insist people must do something personal to avoid government intervention. One of the key things, which is a big deal – no insurance company can refuse you for a pre-existing condition. Other than the usual one -existing, at all. Could get tricky for insurers, all those terminal hoboes lining up. (They won’t be doing this for life insurance ha ha ha…) Oh, hold on, there will be subsidies. Meaning loads of eligibility background checks – makes sense. Those people get paid, programming, data entry etc. Paper work will still exist in hard copy – more trees go down, sorry eco-system. More monies spent & revenue accrued for insurance companies and medicos. Pay days. . ..
Of course, if the subsidies aren’t enough, because an individual is, what’s that word? hmmm poor? What about destitute? will homeless people be rounded up because they have now officially become guilty of a crime more venal than loitering, vagrancy and poor hygiene? OK the last one is a health risk. What if you failed at life and just have very little money? Uh oh. You’re an outlaw.
Seems this new Health Care reform is to health as “reform” was/is to Reform School (which used to be the institution juvenile offenders were incarcerated, now it has a new name – prison). Instead of the old fashioned misery of being ill and eventually dying, you’re a criminal if you don’t get insured even with federally complicated “help.” I’m guessing now, if one was previously eligible for state free clinic aid, they’ll need your insurer or no soap. No dope. No hope. That is an improvement. Anyone know for whom?
This all looks like a not so thinly veiled legal means to attach any and all possessions of anyone who falls in a dark hole of not being able to pay for something. It’s double jeopardy of the worst kind. Sick? no low low low cost health plan? don’t eat. Don’t pay rent. Starve & be homeless too. All seems to end up the same place – jail. Or dead. Not necessarily in that order. Government gets your house and car – if at one point you were able to own any. Maybe because you had a job, got downsized or conveniently terminated just before you were vested & replaced by a 22 year old. The stress of failing and subsequently not finding a job, made you ill? tough luck. But even Mickey D’s fires your ass if you don’t show up. Or blow chunks where the patrons can see. But you can’t sit home (if you have one) spending whatever savings you have left on Ramen noodles, listening to lame radio (still free -for now) and die in peace. No, not anymore. You’ll be fined. If you can’t pay? then what Mr. Obama? Got a plan? See above ( Feds take house etc.) Did I mention Nazi Germany lately?
Somebody in a suit, no doubt fat , smoking a fatter cigar and still probably “white,” is raking green off this deal. If they aren’t, then it’s something even more malevolent. Probably is. Well, hey, if I am any accurate observer of human behavior, we’re all supposed to die anyway. In a strange coincidence noted over-acter, actor Al Pacino has the lead rôle in a new TV bio-pic You Don’t Know Jack – portraying suicide machine entrepreneur Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Boy, we sure could use somebody like him right about now. At least an affordable home version of the machine. Will they subsidize those? noooooo! suicide is a felony. And, again with the double jeopardy! a mortal sin for those 3 or 4 dozen remaining Roman Catholics. Soon, not buying insurance will be a sin and a felony too.
There’s a lot to live for in the great American future (cough bullshit cough). I ought to see a doctor about that cough. But I’m an outlaw just like Jesse James. All of them. Let’s see who I could call for an appointment, you know in case I can pay for this excellent low end health insurance I have to have or get fined my food & rent allowance. Hey! this guy Dr. Robert Ford, is right in my neighborhood. I’ll just have to remember not to straighten any crooked pictures in his office. . ..
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