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The Solution to Health Care: Humanitarian Celebrities
The country is literally becoming insane over this Health Care issue. I'm seriously worried about this. It's crazier than the election. The stuff the are spreading is SO much crazier than Barack Obama being a Muslim. I heard someone today saying they believe one of the health czars believes people don't count as a person until age 2. Like as in, they are abortable at age 2.
I've also heard people think there will be a council dedicated to killing off senior citizens, that the goal is socialized medicine, etc. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the liberals' new product, the Baby SlapChop™.
It's insane. This is not socialist, in fact it's competitive. It's an alternative to these companies that have created a monopoly by being in cahoots with each other. It's disappointing that the only alternative anyone has proposed came from the government, but whatever. It's SOMETHING. Why do you think these terrible companies are resisting it so hard? They are worried they are going to have to lower prices and make less money.
Is a public plan the solution to ending the fact that there is an industry built around people's health? No.
I could not be more disgusted by the idea of the entire health care system. I do not believe it's something that should be used for profit - I do believe it should support our doctors. I do believe it should support research to find new cures. I do believe these are good things and money has to change hands to do any of this stuff.
But the turning of these insane profits, the creation/definition/medication of new conditions that don't truly hurt people. Restless leg syndrome? Fuck you, pharma industry. You can eat my fried dick with some testicle McNuggets. Convincing these people they need meds for this stuff is wrong. Then profiting from the insurance and legitimization of these insane practices, it really pisses me off.
I think I may have the solution, though: humanitarian celebrities. They want so desperately to help people, for whatever reasons I will not question in this post. I don't care, I am not them so I can not tell you what goes on in their heads. They do a lot of good with their money, though.
That money could be put to insane good use here, though. SO, I am asking Humanitarian Hollywood to pool together and create a Privatized, Non-Profit Health Insurance Provider (PNPHIP, a super-cool acronym I just came up with). Bono, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, OPRAH, and everyone else who wishes they were on this shortlist - that means you. Incredibly wealthy people trying to help out. You can get together and fix this. I'm serious, I mean you. You want to be directly responsible for something that literally changes everything about our country - the world even? Here's your chance.
Hire the people, get the offices opened, figure out how to make a service available to everyone. You guys CAN do it. This is not out of reach if you work together. It satisfies the need for an honest alternative to what we have now and the want to not have it from the government.
Do I think this will get to them... I don't know. I want to hope it does. Do I think this will make any difference? Probably not. I am not optimistic on this front, nor do I offer any of the logistics. I don't know them. I will freely admit that I do not understand what this would require. I just think they really could change things minus anyone's intervention.
It would just be so great to see people (with the means) working together to fix a real problem with a real solution without having to be required to by someone. It really would change a lot about the world and show people that they don't have to be told to care.
I've also heard people think there will be a council dedicated to killing off senior citizens, that the goal is socialized medicine, etc. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the liberals' new product, the Baby SlapChop™.
It's insane. This is not socialist, in fact it's competitive. It's an alternative to these companies that have created a monopoly by being in cahoots with each other. It's disappointing that the only alternative anyone has proposed came from the government, but whatever. It's SOMETHING. Why do you think these terrible companies are resisting it so hard? They are worried they are going to have to lower prices and make less money.
Is a public plan the solution to ending the fact that there is an industry built around people's health? No.
I could not be more disgusted by the idea of the entire health care system. I do not believe it's something that should be used for profit - I do believe it should support our doctors. I do believe it should support research to find new cures. I do believe these are good things and money has to change hands to do any of this stuff.
But the turning of these insane profits, the creation/definition/medication of new conditions that don't truly hurt people. Restless leg syndrome? Fuck you, pharma industry. You can eat my fried dick with some testicle McNuggets. Convincing these people they need meds for this stuff is wrong. Then profiting from the insurance and legitimization of these insane practices, it really pisses me off.
I think I may have the solution, though: humanitarian celebrities. They want so desperately to help people, for whatever reasons I will not question in this post. I don't care, I am not them so I can not tell you what goes on in their heads. They do a lot of good with their money, though.
That money could be put to insane good use here, though. SO, I am asking Humanitarian Hollywood to pool together and create a Privatized, Non-Profit Health Insurance Provider (PNPHIP, a super-cool acronym I just came up with). Bono, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, OPRAH, and everyone else who wishes they were on this shortlist - that means you. Incredibly wealthy people trying to help out. You can get together and fix this. I'm serious, I mean you. You want to be directly responsible for something that literally changes everything about our country - the world even? Here's your chance.
Hire the people, get the offices opened, figure out how to make a service available to everyone. You guys CAN do it. This is not out of reach if you work together. It satisfies the need for an honest alternative to what we have now and the want to not have it from the government.
Do I think this will get to them... I don't know. I want to hope it does. Do I think this will make any difference? Probably not. I am not optimistic on this front, nor do I offer any of the logistics. I don't know them. I will freely admit that I do not understand what this would require. I just think they really could change things minus anyone's intervention.
It would just be so great to see people (with the means) working together to fix a real problem with a real solution without having to be required to by someone. It really would change a lot about the world and show people that they don't have to be told to care.
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Comment by Peter Coffin on August 12, 2009 at 5:10pm -
Good points from both of you.
@jischinger - The whole reason I think celebs might take to this well would be that they are so worried about their public image/careers. I wish "As long as it's not me" or "Everyman for himself" would go away, too. You'd think as people got older, they would think less like that. Seems the opposite.
@Chris - I'm by no means a socialist, but I can see why the government flat-out has to control some things. We're a bunch of nutcases. Like you said, very immature as a country.
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Comment by Chris Peck on August 12, 2009 at 4:09pm -
definitely agree. Personally, I consider myself socialist, but at this point in this country most people are either radical conservative or radical liberal. I saw pics of Nazi symbols by Obama's name, while others are saying Obama is the new prophet and we need to listen to him. On that note, the American people aren't educated enough to control our own country, which is why its so fucked up now, in my opinion. If we rose up as one nation, we could solve this, but its all a barney between right and wrong, and no compromise or even listening anymore which is why it wont change.
As an aspiring doctor, I agree that, although less profit should be taken, the profits that are made should go into supporting of the medical field, research, hospitals, etc. Universal health care is possible, but doctors wont make 150k starting. It'll be more like 60-65k, which of course, most doctors have a problem with.
However, if they were paid less, than it would inspire doctors to the field of helping people who...oh I don't know...actually want to help the people and not make hundreds of thousands in profits from pharmaceutical companies from ADD and other made up garbage (or created disease).
Not a fan of humanitarian celebrities, but you are right. They could do a lot more to help us and our country. Realistically speaking, even if the President asked (yeah right), they still would be 50/50 on it.
I think its a great idea starting with celebrities since our infatuation with them makes us listen to them. But I think the better solution in the long run would be the people themselves, I'm talking middle class America, getting off their laurels and making a difference. Don't argue Obama's a terrorist or he's here to save the world. Argue for a better country and a better humanity. But we have to attain tolerance for that, first, and, honestly, America isn't mature enough for that at this point.
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Comment by jischinger on August 12, 2009 at 3:27pm -
hi peter
some great points! - one disagreement about the celebs.
I think you are asking them to do what we are already capable of doing ourselves. What is missing is the will to get out there and get it done.
But I think they could inspire us all by advocating for a public option in commercials and speaking engagements- much like celebs did in the efforts during WWII
However, (outside of Bono-IR) I think they worry more about their status and careers than being an American citizen first; starving people in Africa plays better than obese stressed-out Americans who have the numbers and still enough freedom to get out there and bitch loud-
If they were citizens first they would have joined the side of single payer universal health care months ago.
Unfortunately, we as a nation are suffering from one of these two syndromes , "As long as it's not me" or "Everyman for himself"
History as a guide tells us this is how you break up a nation.
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