Greetings Mouthketeers:

True Story:  A year ago I was on the train from CT to NYC, and by the time I arrived at Grand Central Station, I got in a cab and rushed my butt to an emergency room.  I had a severe case of diahorrea and was dehydrated.  TMI?  Please read on.  As I lay on the gurney in the emergency room, the IV drip loaded with electrolytes, didn’t drip, and unfortunately I didn’t know I was shriveled up like a prune until six hours later–when I was ready to be discharged.  I was charged for the drip that never dropped,  I met a doctor for 30 seconds who asked how I was, walked away, charged me $2,500 for her “care” and to this day I’m still paying the emergency room bill.

I am not one of the 46 million people who live without healthcare.  In fact, I’ve offered a plan to my staff for years.  In order to keep monthly premiums down though, I signed up for a plan, which includes a $3,000 deductible and doesn’t cover emergencies.  Did you hear me?

Threeeeee   Thousssssssand   Dollllllllar   Deductttttttttible. 

I think my case of the runs cost me over $5,000 that day. 

You can call it socialism, mechanism, Buddhism, realism . . . Who cares what the label is . . . Whatever you wanna call it:  Call it a National Healthcare Plan, which I strongly feel America needs.  Many of you thought you would forget the fact you worked in a boring job because you believed your benefits were special; however, if you read the fine print . . . you might as well quit your job because you have the same stanky benefits as I do. 

We need a plan, and we want Obama to put it in place; because up until this date, no President has done so.  Puhleese people.  Anyone who believes Pussoir Palin and her evil antics, swearing that Obama’s plan is going to allow “Big Brother” to prematurely end grandma’s life is on steroids!  Remember, y’all.  Palin doesn’t read any newspapers so why should we believe she’s read any part of Obama’s healthcare proposal?  Perhaps she bought the plan on tape and is listening to it in the car as she whores herself across America, posing as a Republican?  Didn’t the evil Republican crowd “leave the building and go onto talk radio?”  Palin kills moose, quits her role as governor, isn’t up on the news, is an insult to women, speaks way out of turn and obviously didn’t educate her children about the Alaskan wild geese and the bees. (Remember her unwed teenage pregnant daughter?) 

Most likely Palin can afford her healthcare.  This plan won’t be for her.  It’s for all the nice people, the people who work for a living, read this blog and for those who don’t hate.

Vote for a choice . . . and this time . . . it’s a choice for a cheaper kind of healthcare with better benefits.

Hey did you know in real life Dr. Kildare was gay?

Peace.

The Mouthinator

Greetings Mouthketeers:

This morning’s blog entry is a rant.

I don’t know about you, but I’m absolutely pissed this country cannot get it together when it comes to offering people affordable healthcare.  Many work their asses off and they still can’t afford the hundreds of dollars a month to protect themselves and their families. If that’s the case why are we all working so hard?  If we don’t have the means to take care of ourselves in times of peril, what are we doing with our money, and why isn’t healthcare more affordable so that it’s not sucking our tills dry?

In my opinion, healthcare should be free.  The subject should not be drawn out in government—year-after-year.   We are living in 2009 already, friends.  We should not be wondering if we faint on the street whether or not we will end up strapped onto a gurney in the hallways of some stank hospital with a dirty bathroom, right?  

I’ve gone to some gyms that were a hell of a lot cleaner than some of the hospitals I have visited.  If a gym can offer perks (towels, massages, trainers) with a membership, a country can offer healthcare with a US birth certificate.  It should be a perk for being a United States citizen.  

When someone is in pain, they should be treated as if they are kings and queens, not as if they’re Louise Fletcher’s patients in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”  Every doctor should take a course in compassion.   Some Veterinarians are nicer to animals than some doctors are to their patients.  What’s up with that?

It is absolutely disgraceful that a nursing home charges thousands of dollars a day for care—putting decent people in debt, kidnapping their assets simply to pay outrageous costs to people who don’t want to work there anyway.  There should be no such thing as “long term health insurance.”  We should always have care—whether we break our legs or have colon cancer—we should always have the care we need.   There should be no such thing as reading small print in an insurance policy. If you go to the grocery store and can buy a bag a groceries for face value than you can buy a health insurance policy. Buying a simple plan insurance policy should be as simple as buying milk, eggs and cheese down at the neighborhood deli.  

If the government can give billions of dollars to companies who build ugly cars, for God’s sake they can print some more dough for health insurance.  And while they’re at it, any doctor who shows a bit of attitude or dismisses patients as if they are pieces of meat at a supermarket should be fired.  And that also goes for doctors who prescribe drugs to people knowing that these medications will kill them.  All I can say here is . . . Michael Jackson.   Shamon already.  Fire the butts off of these dudes, throw them in jail and take away there medical licenses.

Here’s how we will all get free healthcare.  Give big companies a juicy tax break for subsidizing healthcare programs.  Forget the potholes in the street.  We might get a few hemorrhoids bouncing over a hole or two on the highway, but we’ll live.    Pull some tax money that might go to fixing the roads and transfer it to medicine and care.   Towns should cancel their budgets for fireworks displays on the 4^th of July, in favor of using those funds for community healthcare programs.  Forget the parades—put it in the kitty for healthcare.  Forget the girl scout cookie sales—put the money in the kitty for healthcare.Forget giving to the museum—put the money in the kitty for healthcare.

Obviously I’m not that stupid to realize this is a complicated subject.  But it’s time to fix the healthcare system so we can seriously focus on the environment.

Is “General Hospital” still on TV?  Stay well.

Peace.

The Mouthinator