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Canadian Universal Healthcare Isn’t Working? Noooooo. Seriously?

Published by Daisy on June 1, 2010 in General Political Mockery. 8 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

You know what irks the crap out of me? The fact that COMMON SENSE IS DYING.

I think the headline of this article sort of says it all:

SOARING COSTS FORCE CANADA TO REASSESS HEALTH MODEL

“There’s got to be some change to the status quo whether it happens in three years or 10 years,” said Derek Burleton, senior economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank.

“We can’t continually see health spending growing above and beyond the growth rate in the economy because, at some point, it means crowding out of all the other government services.

“At some stage we’re going to hit a breaking point.”

Gee, Canada. You think?

The article goes on to draw a correlation between Canada and the United States, as, well, this is precisely where we’re headed, folks.

Canada is finding itself in a position of having to curtail their healthcare, looking for “new sources of funding,” because – holy mother of crap – they just don’t have enough money to sustain the current system as is.

Wait…..isn’t healthcare a RIGHT? And therefore, shouldn’t it just instantaneously happen without worrying about HOW it’s going to happen? I mean, healthcare should just magically appear out of our assular areas. Along with housing and flat-screen TVs. At least that’s what I’ve heard from the liberal talking heads.

“Ontario says healthcare could eat up 70 percent of its budget in 12 years, if all these costs are left unchecked.”

And you know who loses in all of this? Well, the consumer, for one. And then pharmaceutical companies are next in line. Who, by the way, are responsible for advancing medicine and the life expectancy of human beings, but who gives a rat’s ass about them, right? I mean – we don’t need no stinkin’ advances. And while we’re at it – let’s just screw the old people, too. They’re just getting annoying at this point, what with their gray hair and stories about when the country wasn’t socialist and all.

My favorite part of the article is this statement, though:

…one cost-saving idea may be to make patients aware of how much it costs each time they visit a healthcare professional. “(The public) will use the services more wisely if they know how much it’s costing.”

I laughed out loud at that. Brilliant, isn’t it? When you give a person a free ride and they develop a sense of entitlement to that free ride, they’re DEFINITELY going to be concerned and conscientious about what they’re actually costing other people. Riiiiiight.

Everyone hear that sound? That’s the sound of COMMON SENSE MOANING AND GASPING FOR AIR UNDER THE WEIGHT OF SHEER STUPIDITY AND IGNORANCE.

And, just to remind everyone….this is coming to a country near you.

Welcome to the new America, AY?

More Healthcare Math – From An English Major

Published by Daisy on June 22, 2009 in General Political Mockery. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

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Today marks the beginning of the week-long healthcare hoopla, with ABC providing the all-Obama-all-the-time coverage on Wednesday night, a’ la a celebrity-saturated telethon, about the healthcare bill.  While I can’t tell you what sort of fabulously-spun marketing spin will be put on the crap-pile of a plan, I can tell you that the numbers themselves will more than likely be glossed over.  They’ll be glorified, for sure, and just fuzzy enough for a person who doesn’t deal with trillions on a daily basis to grasp – a person like me.  And more than likely, you.

For someone like me – a self-professed math moron (or “moran,” as I’ve been called by one of our endearing leftist readers) – I want to see easy-to-understand numbers, in a simple format.  I was an English undergraduate major, after all, so I look for the sifted down version of these types of data.  This article I read this morning seemed to do just that, and it made me even more leery of the overhaul Obama intends to do to this country’s healthcare.

For those of you like me, I’m going to give you the bulleted list of what the numbers appear to be:

  • Obama says that the plan would cost $1 trillion over 10 years
  • It will only provide coverage for 16 million of the estimated 50 million Americans who are uninsured (huh – this alone makes me question why in the heck we’re doing a complete overhaul at a ridiculous expense)
  • The Congressional Budget Office has ANOTHER estimate on what it will actually cost.  They say it’ll be more along the lines of $1.6 trillion (Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) said it’s really going to be about $2 trillion when all is said and done.)
  • Using the $1.6 trillion figure, it breaks down to $160 billion a year.
  • $160 billion a year equates to $13.3B per month.  
  • $13.3B per month, if you’re insuring 16 million people, translates to roughly $833 per subscriber per month.

Yeah, that kinda sucks.  A lot.

Using a Santa Monica male as an example in purchasing PRIVATE healthcare, “if the subscriber is healthy enough not to reach the deductible amount in a given year, his average variable cost ranges from zero to $292 per month, plus the $172 fixed cost, or a maximum total of $464.  And since that is a health savings account policy, the $292 reduces his taxable income.”

I may have been an English major, but I still don’t get it.  How in the hell is this plan better?  How is it that I’m going to come out ahead when it costs WAAAAY more, doesn’t insure everyone, and we’re all going to eat it in raised taxes?

I don’t think it takes a PhD in Math to figure this one out…

Open Wide And Say UGH….Here Comes Your Healthcare Hope and Change

Published by Daisy on June 14, 2009 in General Political Mockery. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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According to this article, the new health care plan is a heaping pile of monkey poo.  Well, that’s what I get from the article, anyway. 

To give you the latest Readers Digest version, here are the nifty little highlights from the Democrats’ proposed health care legislation:

  • $600 billion in tax increases (gee…I wonder who’s paying THAT?)
  • $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
  • Goes above the $634 billion Obama promised in his budget request to Congress as a 10-year down payment for the policy changes (I know, I’m shocked, too)
  • The overhaul will cost more than $1 trillion over a decade (lovely)
  • Will consider tax increases in the bill (you think?), including a possible end to the income tax exclusion for employer-paid health benefits (niiiice)
  • Will apply income tax to health care plans

Of course, Obama is planning on paying for this by attacking the wealthy first – I mean, he might as well, right? -  then he’s going to cut Medicare payments to insurance companies.  Of course, that won’t suffice, so he’s planning on cutting about $200-$300 billion more in Medicare/Medicaid.

And then the article goes on to talk about how Democrats are trying to spin this nightmare of a Marxist piece of crap plan by focusing on the positive.  Like the more universal care we’re all going to get.  Which, I might add, should not be confused with BETTER care.  It also can’t be confused with more choices.  But it SHOULD be labeled as government bureaucrats deciding how, when, and from whom I receive care – if I receive care at all. 

Yeah, I don’t see how ANY of this is better…

I have several questions about this crappy new plan.  Questions like, “If I have health insurance through my job, do I think it’s O.K. for the government to additionally tax me for THEIR crappy health care “plan”?  Do I agree with government deciding and possibly rationing the care for me and my family?  What about illegal immigrants that get FREE health care?  What’s being done about that and how it blatantly drives up the cost of healthcare in this country? 

The government is known for waste, fraud, and incompetency.  Why is it that we’re trusting them to make decisions about our health?

I still don’t get it.  And, I definitely don’t want this dose of change.

And, if you still think America’s healthcare sucks, here’s “10 Surprising Facts” you may not have known…

Happy Sunday, everyone!

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