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Grendelcomment: Oh Jimmy. How can you spend all
day pointing out the ineptitude of government and say you'd
rather have a g-man instead of "ruthless criminal
fuckin' capitalists" between you and your doctor? How
do you propose that the ruthless criminal fuckin'
capitalists be kept from controlling or becoming this future
g-man position you're proposing to hand the keys of public
health to? As they have with the FDA and CDC and NIH
and every other government agency? Definition of
insanity says hello bro.
First, let's get this capitalist BS out of the way. No
Jimmy, those ruthless criminals are not anything remotely
resembling capitalists. They are global corporatists.
It is not the same kind of greed at all. This greed is
for power, control and authority. At this level more
specifically, to control what happens to humans as a
species.
Whereas, a true capitalist's greed ends at the till and
wanting to keep what payin' customers put there for what's
being offered. Mostly the business person wants to be
left alone, unless you want to talk about making
infrastructure or cultural improvements likely to drive in
more payin' customers and keep the lights on. Wanting
to improve conditions for business, sure they may push for
some policies and get into politics. As just one
person with just one vote. Not much of a problem.
When it expanded to gangs, tycoons and unions centralizing
votes, hey - not suggesting things were great, but most
folks got along ok, and most folks standard of living kept
going upward.
But when businesses became corporations, this added new
problems. Massive amounts of power centralized in this
way, now distancing from direct culpability the folks
running things when something goes horribly wrong.
This does seem to let things get out of hand much more
frequently, and on enormous scales. Yet under this
paradigm a fragile equilibrium was sustained for a time and
that standard of living kept right on climbing for the
average person. But this was shattered by the Citizens
United decision. Allowing corporations unfettered
access to attempt controlling the minds of the masses?
What could possibly go wrong? This was the worst
decision from the U.S. Supreme court of all time. By
far. I have much more to rant about on this topic but
I'll save that for another outburst.
It is madness to accept the proposition that the entity of a
corporation is protected as a person under the bill of
rights. To convince me the gov could manage any agency
that wasn't corrupt to its core, Citizens United must first
be overturned. The only way to drain the swamp, is to
stop the ocean of global corporate grift and extortion
seeping into Washington DC through a million cracks and
crevices, leveraging power, influence and money to control
whatever they desire in government.
Not sure, but I think Jimmy'd at least agree on that last bit.
Tell you what Jimmy, maybe we can join forces until we get
to that? Can we at least agree Citizens United is the
immediate hurdle we have to put behind us before anything
really can be done to solve much of anything at all using a
government agency as a solution?
OK setting aside the agency angle, I sense a false dichotomy
in your thought process. Why does anybody have to be
between you and your doctor at all? Is this set in
stone? I get that these days, nobody can afford their
own health care because of how expensive it can be.
Well why is it so expensive? A few reasons come to
mind . . . . catastrophic care, long term care, and
litigation. I have some zany notions for these.
Catastrophic care could wipe out entire family fortunes once
upon a time. This is an area where it would make sense
for the government to provide a basic level of care. I
would suggest a military style red cross branch of service.
They could provide long term care and mercy care for
catastrophic conditions where patients elect not to fight
and have run out of $$$ for private care. This branch
could also centralize and support studies using new trials
for cures. Bottom basement pharmaceuticals would be a
trade-off Pharma will be happy to pay for a rigorously and
legitimately studied stamp of gov. FDA approval on the
product. Medical service care would be strictly
limited in the cosmetic/elective realm to keep costs down.
If you want to tranny or abort or GMO yourself, that's gotta
be on your dime sweetie. Something private insurance,
would certainly be happy to cover on extended plans.
These services should be diligently audited, and the
leadership responsibilities should be vertically separated
and rotated regularly to avoid pockets of corruption.
To help fund the Medical Service branch, hospitals, charity
programs, religious or otherwise should be allowed to
participate with the bar being only that strict standards
for care are met and rigorously checked. Public
results of grading by patient survey might be a nice touch.
A patient bill of rights, perhaps not out of the question.
Recruiting the best and brightest for the medical services
offering free college level med creds, as with the other
branches of the military would be enticing indeed, helping
fill the ranks. So Jimmy no. No single payer.
Leave people the hell alone. I counter with a firmly
limited scope medicare, utterly rebuilt as a medical corps,
with strictly upheld quality standards provided on demand to
any U.S. citizens. This has to be a workable
compromise, one would think.
Aside from catastrophic care, another monster cost driver is
litigation. Is it so impossible to imagine a world
where a doctor could hang their shingle, visit with whoever
walks in, develop a bond with their patients? Visit
sick patients at their home instead of centralizing them in
sick rooms? Handing out needed meds as needed.
Giving their best care to their community their whole lives,
often rising to be a legend in their town. This is
what doctors were 100 years ago and still are in some less
confused parts of the world. Litigation killed the
medical profession in the US. It forced doctors to at
best hide in LLCs or at worst scurry under the
administrative jackboot of corporate health care giants.
I say . . . control the litigation. Raise the
threshold for personal damages for malpractice and/or limit
compensation and we might just see those shingles go back up
once more. Instead of stomping on capitalism we need
to recognize that greed is just the nature of some folks.
Ones with survival instincts anyway . . . among others.
Harness it and you have an engine. Allow greed to
become concentrated you have a power plant. But give
it government access and protection from consequence?
You have a bomb.
I do not claim these ideas would solve everything. My
main point is that health care and how it is provided is no
more a binary choice than is the method of care an
individual patient needs for an ailment. There has to
be other choices in this discussion beyond centralized
federal government authority and global technocratic rule by
WHO and UN dictate. Why not see about putting mostly
the patient in charge instead? With the doctor next in
charge on up to a as little meddling as possible from the
state? Can this happen? What about something
like school vouchers . . . medical service vouchers to drive
competition? I'm just spitballin' here. Point
is, get some broader talking points on this Jimmy my dude,
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