Healthcare
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 4th 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
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