Wednesday, November 14, 2007
God help me, I think I'm in love with another man's wife
Yes, Elizabeth Kucinich is beautiful -- but she's also brainy, poised, articulate, and right. What a great speaker! This lady could sell socialized medicine to Milton Friedman. If Ah-nold weren't lurking in the background, I'd argue in favor of relaxing the Constitutional prohibition against foreign-born presidential candidates. Dennis for First Husband!
And did you know that she helped Mother Theresa take care of poor kids...?
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Take a number and get in line, Joseph!
Jim
Another man's third wife, that is. At least his being a Catholic isn't at issue.
Did her "roll over" of the $800 billion that now goes to "executive salaries, stock options [etc.]...", which she said could then go towards providing dental, hearing, vision, long-term care, and so forth, make sense to you? I don't think her math is scrupulous. A lot of that money comes from the profits, so if you remove the profits, you remove a lot of that money.
She also purposely (or stupidly) confused 2 aspects of for-profit health insurance when she said the companies make money by "not providing care". But she didn't develop that assertion, as though its implications are self-evident and somehow absurd. We know that the companies spend a lot of money to deny many claims. That's the for-profit and greed motive. The truth is that people who buy insurance never want to get sick or to have a stroke (which would give them their money's worth). All insurance is premised on absurdity. People buy auto insurance, and they're glad if they never 'need' it. A few weeks ago I spoke with a private health insurance representative on the phone, just like I would speak to a Medicare representative, about premium costs and other administrative matters, but not about medical care per se. She was being paid for "not providing health care", just like thousands of people in the industry. By the way, she sounded very pretty even though she has to pay a lot of money for insuring her family, which includes children with allergies.
Do you think universal health care is feasible in a country like ours without also having the kind of Homeland Security (draconian) measures we loathe? It wouldn't take but a few 'terrorist' catastrophes to bankrupt the insurance programs.
Paul Krugman would like to see universal, single-payer health-care coverage; but he recognizes the impossibility of having it happen soon (for several reasons). When the issue is demogogued the way Elizabeth Kucinich and Dennis present it, the effect is that we perceive the other (more realistic) plans as sell-out compromises and less than we deserve. Tsk.
And don't forget that most people who would be covered don't care that they only eat shitburgers and french-fried shit, and drink 3 quarts of corn syrup every day.
Fifteen years ago in California: lowest infant mortality rate was among Hispanics; highest infant survival rate was among Hispanics; lowest pregnancy mortality rate was among Hispanics; lowest birth-defect rate was among Hispanics. There's something to be said for a cheap diet of beans, rice, and corn.
I think a universal health care system could be put in place now, if there were the political will.
Here in New Jersey, the state privatized motor vehicle services in the '90s. For the most part, all the same workers still did all the same jobs. Customer service was crappy, and the state had to put the screws to Parsons to shape up. Yes, it seems the real purpose was to give a defense contractor something to keep it from going bankrupt in peacetime.
I think it was after the Bush administration created perpetual war, giving Parsons better contracts, that the state took the agency back over. I didn't even notice. The government could take over the "insurance industry," and I use that term for a Ponzi scheme loosely, and start from the same machinery.
Anyway, I've also seen the Kuciniches speak in person, and I agree with your awe of the woman's charm, grace, beauty and smarts. And I'm a perfectly heterosexual woman, LOL.
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