Why is this in rec.bicycles.misc??
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:08:23 +0000, tr2267 wrote:
> In article <11nvgcv53k6jn56@corp.supernews.com>,
> Vic Vega wrote:
>>So don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, you whiny bitch.
>>
> I have group health insurance, idiot. But 80 million Americans do not have
> group insurance, and they're screwed by a shitty health care system that
> is fundamentally flawed. Thanks for providing evidence that archconservative
> nutjobs are so self-centered and selfish freaks that someone caring about their
> fellow citizens is completely beyond their comprehension.
Yeah, blame it on the "archconservatives", sure. If the left had really
wanted a health system reform, they could have chosen to spend their
majority in 92-94 on that instead of going out of their way to irritate
bubba-democrats by going after their guns. No, putting a temporary ban
on the manufacture of a few lame jam-o-matics was more important than
getting a national health insurance plan in place.
Now, I'll tell you why.
If you restrict the amount of money going into national health care, you
have to restrict the expenses faced by doctors, hospitals, and medical
supply makers. Can you cut pay to nurses, orderlies, secretaries, techs,
etc? Nope, those folks are in the core democratic wage class. Can you
cut availability of MRI's, tests, etc? No, patients will go
beserk. Can you cut their real estate rents and utility bills? Not
really. Can you cut their insurance costs.. hmmmm... maybe. But
wait, guess who is the recipients of that largess?? Trial lawyers,
a(the?) core democrat supplier of campaign funds. So democrats ended up
having to choose between embracing single payer with US style costs, and
the tax increases that would be required to pay those costs, or screwing
their trial lawyer supporters by capping payouts from insurance pools for
malpractice and other liabilities in order to achieve acceptable expense
levels that wouldn't result in a tax payer revolt.
Sooner or later, the Democrats will control Legislature and Executive
again, and their taste for actually achieving universal health care will
once again... disappear.
> it is only
> a matter of time before the US catches up to the rest of the
> industrialized world.
The day our lawyers will agree to accept the same degree of payout as our
Northern and European competitors, maybe. Until then? Can't happen.
I actually hope I'm wrong...
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