I Gots Me the Health Care Blues Just From Reading the News

A few articles grabbed my attention while I was cleaning my Browning M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun before remounting it on top of my Prius and heading off to another town hall meeting.

Ref: http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/infantry/mg/M2.html

In my local free paper, the front page feature article concerned a really nice guy battling brain cancer, the community effort to help him raise the funds he needs to have any chance at all to stay alive and the glossed over jarring disconnect from the media narrative:

Last year, after a long fight with his insurance company, Beinder began looking for ways to raise the $6,000 a month he needs to pay for an experimental treatment.


http://www.cabinet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/NS/20090821/HOLLISBROOKLINE01/908219849

And then there was this:

Insurers aim to save from overseas medical tourism
Another head turner that cannot possibly make sense given the vomit of 'information' pouring out of our personal propaganda devices. Sure its true that we spend far more per capita than any other nation on the planet, and yes of course we are only 37 in measured outcomes for all that loot, but certainly that is only because those irresponsible illegals don't bother going to the doctor until they are dead. WE ARE USA NUMBER ONE and consequently we have the best health care on the planet, for those of us responsible people who aren't too sick to go to work of course, or have managed to live long enough to get medicare, which the Obamas are trying to turn into a government program, right? So what is with sending people to costa rica to have their teeth yanked?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-08-22-medical-tourism_N.htm

But I decided not to worry so much. My party at long last is back in power, and they are going to implement real reform. Reform based more or less on what that ethically compromised idiot Romney did to Massachusetts, or so I'm told.

Bay State health insurance premiums highest in country.

Massachusetts has the most expensive family health insurance premiums in the country, according to a new analysis that highlights the state’s challenge in trying to rein in medical costs after passage of a landmark 2006 law that mandated coverage for nearly everyone.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/22/bay_state_health_insurance_premiums_highest_in_country/

I read the news today oh boy...

:kick:

He's not much of a thinker, and neither are most of his friends (lotsa 'pukes in the mix). My mom and he attended a fundraiser party to help pay for one of their friend's medical bills (battling cancer). I emailed my mother and said: "Gee, I hope these friends make the connection between healthcare reform and this situation. In what other developed country would you have to hold fundraisers for people with cancer? Not France. Not Canada. Not England. Not Germany. Not Sweden. Not Italy., etc."

My mother didn't reply to that particular statement.

:kick: