Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Crack-Smoking-Level Stupid

That would be Rep. Charles Boustany Jr., R-Louisiana, who gave the Hoover Party's version of the Saturday address this morning. While professing a desire to "work with President Obama", Boustany unleashed this corker:
"A government takeover of health care will put bureaucrats in charge of health care decisions that should be made by families and doctors. It will limit treatment options and lead to rationed care."
I don't know what reality Boustany is living in, but in the real-world, the health care decisions already are being made by bureaucrats: The ones who work for the insurance companies and who are hard-wired to say "no".

It doesn't matter what you or your doctor think is best; if the insurance company says "no, that is not approved", then you are shit out of luck. Your choices are to appeal the denial (good luck with that), do without, or find a way to pay for the course of treatment you need. "Medical tourism" started because people who needed procedures traveled to cheaper places, such as Thailand or India, to have medical procedures done that their insurance companies refused to pay for.

If this is the level of deep thought and real-world concern that the Hoover Party is bringing to the debate on health care, then they are as "willing to work with President Obama" as rust is willing to work with an engine.

3 comments:

BadTux said...

Okay, my grandmother was on Medicare and Medicaid for 20 years. No bureaucrat *ever* interfered with the medical care she got from her doctors. She could choose to go to any specialist she wanted rather than having to go through a "gatekeeper", she could go to any hospital she wanted, and she never had to worry about how she was going to pay for anything because she was covered. Sometimes the doctors had to have her back several times because of odd Medicare billing rules that wouldn't let them do everything in one visit (?), but that's the total extent of the interference of Medicare with her medical care.

I fail to see why Medicare For All would work any different from Medicare For Prunes. Meanwhile, Kaiser Permanente tells me that I must go to Dr. Jahesh Patvouli as my primary care doctor, who graduated from the Jakesh Medical School And Vocational Center three years ago and is working for $15,000 a year for Kaiser while living in her office at the K-P building while subsisting on ramen noodles and curry bean soup (you buy it in pouches near the ramen noodles here in the bay area), and Kaiser dictates exactly to me what treatment I am allowed to get and what treatment I am not allowed to get (assuming that Jahesh even knows that any treatment more advanced than a band-aide exists for my condition, or which specialist to refer me to if she has no idea what's wrong with me).

In short, I get suck-ass care with Kaiser compared to what my grandmother got with Medicare. I want Medicare *now*, not once I'm a prune, because Medicare just plain WORKS better than private insurance, with less bureaucratic interference and more consumer choice. Anybody who says different needs to talk to their granny (or their momma or daddy, if they're getting on in years). If they don't, if they keep spewing this drivel, they're either idiots, liars, or both. 'Nuff said.

- Badtux the Health Care Penguin

tom said...

well HE has gummimint healthcare, his constituients DON'T
but it's OK as he is a republican
I'll just bet he cashes HIS gummimint check every two weeks...
gummimint certainly created a job for HIM

We don't need insurance we need healthcare

socialism, let's see, Military, police, fire, public hospitals...

merlallen said...

yeah, he hates "socialized" govt run health care so much that he uses private insurance, right?