Monday, October 29, 2012

29 October 2012 Who better to administer a GOP/teavangelist health plan






Cassi Creek:
          The GOP/teavangelists’ endless complaint about Government participation in health care delivery has centered around their fear that their access to health care will somehow be decided and delayed or denied by a “bureaucrat” working to keep the cost of health care down.  
          I’ve had to listen to that song and dance many times, as it has been repeated by people with employer-funded insurance, people with privately purchased insurance, people with no insurance, and people who could and have bought their own insurance company.  Everyone of them believes that they will be overcharged for health care with the overage being used to pay for “the 47%,” illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants children and families, and any other group they can single out for blame. 
          They’re right.  They are being overcharged.  They are being overcharged to pay for the uninsured – all categories. 
          They are at risk of having their badly needed health care delayed and/or denied.  But, not by a government bureaucrat.  Rather, there is a cubicle dwelling clerk who matches policy numbers, cost of procedures, and factors in the amount necessary to be milked from the pool of premiums in order to pay out the bonuses and other rewards that the company executives have voted for their selves.  That’s who , and that’s where.  And most of all that’s why the insurance companies want the GOP/teavangelist base to remain at the mercy of  propaganda factories, misinformed congressional candidates, and other fear mongers who are happy to shift the blame for anything to anyone for the right fee. 
          Take note of the Wilkinson cartoon above.  What a perfect scapegoat for botched care, for care that was authorized too little and too late, and for care that was denied to provide another round of drinks at a tropical resort during a insurance companies sponsored junket for legislators from solid red states.
          Now, with the teavangelists blocking rational thought throughout the red states, it has become acceptable and convenient to blame any medical mishap on a supreme being, one which is claimed to be omniscient and omnipotent.  That outbreak of shingles could have been prevented with a cheap vaccine.  But you wouldn’t want a politician or an insurance executive to attempt to ignore the directives of a deity that punishes with pregnancies and dispenses diseases to enforce dogma. Even better than the faceless government bureaucrat is the invisible deity that rewards executives who hear “his” (was there ever any doubt) pronouncements and relay them to the grievously ill and the merely morbid.

          What then, for the rational who trust double-blind studies and who place their trust in the careful, repeated collection of data and the application of the conclusions drawn from such scientific methodology.  Who do they blame when the universe pokes them in the eye with a dirty conclusion?  If they are honest, true observers who reach the same conclusions in every application of their hypothesis against their observations; they accept the conclusion and begin looking for a palliative procedure, a golden fungi, a vaccine or a treatment – did we say palliative? 
          The things we know about the herbicide called Agent Orange include its long incubation period in human bodies, it’s extremely heavy usage in the area of South VietNam called III Corps, and its apparent capacity to induce Parkinsonism decades after exposure. 
          The things I can apply to those observations include my presence in III Corps during that period of heavy defoliation, and a disturbing number of symptoms that strongly suggest “atypical Parkinsonism.”
          These facts and questions generate a real conundrum for the GOP/teavangelists.  One hand, they wish to appear supportive of veterans with service related injuries and illnesses.  On the other hand, the Ryan budget includes some large cuts in funding for veterans medical concerns.  Given my utter contempt for the GOP/teavangelists, I’m of the opinion that they would like to assign me to the “get sick – die quick” ranks.  Given my  absolute willingness to write letters exposing such treatment of veterans, and my belief that such neglect is suffered at the hands of other humans, not at the random displeasure of a fairy tale deity; I find no reason or rationality that lets me blame anything but chance for the diagnosis “atypical Parkinsonism” on my chart.


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