The Health Care Thing

Brizoni here. The Ransom Note was "kind" enough to let me use their account (I ran this blog, once upon a time, but they've appropriated it, I think just to shut it down, but who knows what plans those guys have until their sprung) to post. They're not pleased I used as many swears as I did, but, well, whatever.

Watch video of Michael "I Don't Talk in Soundbites" * Moore shit his fat. I haven't seen Sicko, and other than this evisceration, I don't know what the movie claims. I do know the political spectrum is littered w/ doucebags whose disingenuous populism can be smelled readily by their use of the phrase "the American People". Whenever someone goes on and on about "the American People", they're trying to sell you something (Moore) or get you off their backs (the President). I don't know that you'll ever hear that expression out of sincerity. It's kind of code for "you assholes".

I don't know if we just deserve free health care. I don't know that we don't, either, although I'm inclined to think that, given where we're at as a species and a culture right now, we actively don't deserve a damn thing. I do fear turning hospitals over to the government will turn them into DMVs, and that old jokes about skeletons in waiting rooms will start hitting too close to home**, but again, I don't know for sure. I want to know why exactly health care costs so much. What's the actual reason(s)? Anyone?

I've decided not to let either group of cumrag get me agitated about this one way or the other, until I've had time to think it through for myself. If that's still allowed.

What do you think?





*Actual goddamn quote.

**Want your drugs invented and open-heart surgery performed by the people who gave us FEMA, Amtrak and the CIA? Does the Post Office do a better job than FedEx? I can't mail a package via the federal government without waiting in line 20 minutes--and the Post Office is the best-run federal agency." - same guy