Health Care LTTE with a bite.

My friend never gives up on writing letters to the editor. Satire and sarcasm fed on frustration. Here is his latest.

Dear Editor:

I salute the patriotism of the Fox-watchers, Tea Baggers and Limbaughers who have alerted us to the perils of universal health care. They know what an insult this measure would be to the memory of those who died protecting our precious freedoms, including the right of the uninsured to sicken and die without an intrusive government bureaucracy making it possible for them to receive life-saving medical treatment.



At the same time, it is hard to deny the red tape and venality built into our current system of health insurance, leading to routine denials of care for many people who, often through no fault of their own, are not members of Congress. We need a truly reformed health care system that is responsive and vigorous, yet leaves the public safe from the dangers of democratic control, rational planning, wider access and fundamental humanity.



My suggestion is to place health care in the hands of the least bureaucratic, most energetic and most government-averse institution in these United States: the Mafia. Under this plan, appeals, coverage disputes and other time-consuming consumer complaints would be unheard of, or else. The money saved could be re-injected into our tight credit markets in the form of high-interest “juice” loans, which would be made freely available to compulsive gamblers and other free-spending individuals, to the benefit of the economy as a whole.



Some might object to having our doctors and hospitals under the control of a powerful and ruthless cartel motivated only by the prospect of ever-greater profits. But if massive and preventable suffering is the cost of freedom, so be it. Clearly it is time for all of us, including the lunatic fringe and organized crime communities, to put aside our petty differences and address the threat of creeping sanity and decency in health care policy.

Yours "sincerely,"

http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/letters/1800235,CST-EDT-vox01a.article

readers now that it is courting bankruptcy.

thanks for the link - K&R

sometimes. Seriously. As ridiculous as that may seem, that is the fundamental assumption of all Trickle Down economics.