My Idea To Fix The Health Care System In The United States
People seem to like my ground-breaking ideas so I decided to share another one which might help both our government and the medical industry at large.
I have a few friends who have Kaiser Permanente and are very happy with it.
They offer quality low-cost insurance and if you’re a member of Kaiser and you need medical treatment you know where to go: to a Kaiser Permanente hospital.
When they give you drugs, it comes in a Kaiser Permanente bottle. They probably use their buying power to buy large amounts of medications and supplies on the cheap.
Your doctor doesn’t work at Kaiser Permanente and also some Planned Parenthood clinic in some redlined district, he just works at KP.
The problem with their model, as perfect as it is, is that it relies on large volume to work. Because of this, most KP hospitals are located in medium and large cities. That leaves smaller towns and rural areas out in the cold.
Most people would be like:
“Well it’s a great idea— too bad it doesn’t work in smaller towns and rural communities, anyhow let’s get back to some pie in the sky ‘free health care’ mumbo jumbo before I get a headache.”
The problem with the idea of nationalized ‘free health care’ is that nothing is free, and anything the government does do for you, they expect to be repaid handsomely. They’ll give us some shitty free health care and maybe make it a little cheaper to buy a hybrid car and then they’ll come knocking on the door:
Andy: Oh hey President Obama, what brings you to my house?
President Obama: Well you remember how I gave you that health care and helped you get that Prius for a few thousand bucks less?
Andy: Yeah. I really appreciate that. I meant to send a thank you card but you won’t believe the kind of wool I’m pulling driving that thing—
Barack Obama: Well that’s why i’m here. I think for all i’ve done for you that you could give me a little something for the effort… you know, maybe up your federal tax contribution from 35% to 45%? Health Care and Priuses don’t grow on trees you know.
Andy: The bait and switch! I knew this was a scam. And now that you guys are in charge of Health Care and the ‘Green’ cookie jar you’ve got me over the barrel don’t you?
Barack Obama: Yep. You have any cold beers?
Andy: <sigh>
So here is my ground-breaking idea to stop all of this from happening:
For rural areas where they cannot legitimately have a full on hospital there will be a tent hospital erected for one week per month. Hillbillies are used to tents because ministries often do this like in the Steve Martin movie “Leap Of Faith”, so even if you put a state of the art medical center next to a tent with a Churro stand out front, they’d pick the tent 9 times out of 10.
What would you name such a service?
Kaiser Temporarye.
Let it sink in a little. To help you visualize it i’ve made a dramatized model:
So once a month you take the kids in there for shots, maybe have a dentist look at your tooth, get a new prescription, anything that a regular hospital might do. Then, after the week is over the pack up the tent and move on to the next town.
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Typical American ignorance: instead of learning about socialized health care, you pick up bullshit from the Right, but then pretend to be left when you write about it, and spew bullshit anyway.
Instead of learning about socialized health care? What’s to learn? We have it here in the states already, it’s called the line at the county hospital. I had to use it once and it sucked pretty bad. Besides, i’d rather pay for my own health care up front than be taxed so hard that I have to take the free stuff.
Here’s how it will work: to pay for the Universal Health Care we need to raise taxes on everyone, not just those who use Universal Health care. So then, what benefit will it be to have private health care? None. Exactly their plan.
Pretend to be from the left? How did I do that? (Is reading always a confusing endeavor for you?)
Btw, I made fun of you on the Rolling Stone article that you commented on. In case you wanted to go check it out.
Huh. Here in Israel we actually have this shitty free social health care. The thing is that no one ever questions it and everyone discards it as “just another way for the government to rip us off”.
It gets worse – if you need to undergo some serious opertaion, you will receive it for (almost) free only after you’ve proven that you have absolutely no income and savings. Meaning – first you have to pay for everything yourself and than sue the country in order to get what you deserve. It should take a few years.
So yeah, social health care is bad.
First of all, you guys are missing out on the real health care debate: Which insurance company has the most bad ass name? Kaiser Permanente definitely gets points for sounding like some mustachioed dictator. But I would have to say it comes in second to COBRA… because it’s COBRA in ALL CAPS.
Second of all, Andy thanks for the comment and I added you to the blog roll. your blog is funny as hell.
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I don’t think that COBRA is an insurance company per se, but rather a law requiring insurance companies to allow you to buy group plan insurance if you are laid off or fired from your job.
I think the point that most people are missing is that the government does everything badly and expensively.
I’ve been to city state and federal (VA) hospitals and they all look like hell-holes.
I’d rather more hospitals like Kaiser popped up and were like the fucking Walmarts of hospitals.
The problem with liberals is that they’re statists. They want the state involved with commerce. They want oversight and regulation and, subsequently, vast corruption. The two should hardly know each other (commerce and the state).
I don’t want to poison the well but one of the first things a government does when it is moving toward totalitarianism or fascism is start taking over companies. (Volkswagen and Mercedes Benz anyone?)
So, if you’re wondering why anyone would think that universal health care is a bad idea, that is why. And because we’ll have to pay for it one way or another. Let Walmart get into the healthcare business I say.
The e in Temporarye appropriately adds an air of medieval peasantry .. as in the Danserye
http://www.last.fm/music/North%2BTexas%2BWind%2BSymphony%2B%252F%2BEugene%2BMigliaro%2BCorporon/_/Twelve+Dances+from+%22The+Danserye%22%3A+Basse+Danse+Bergeret?autostart
Well said. I can’t believe people still scream for it. All you have to do is talk to anyone from ANY country that has universal health care and they’ll tell you really quick that it’s a bad move. I mean, I have insurance, and I have a very expensive preexisting condition, which would normally cost me a $2,000.00 average per month to treat, and that’s at minimum. If we had universal health care, eventually private insurance would be phased out, or too God damn expensive to be able to afford it. The government would take one look at me and say “you’re on your own, you’re not COST EFFECTIVE enough to treat.”