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A Paler Shade of Gray

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Publié le 05 mai 2017
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If you seek to know why this country is in so much trouble, check out the lead reports about the health care reform bill in today’s New York Times, WashPo, and CNN. You will find there is no intelligible discussion in any of them as to what’s actually ailing US health care. All you get is play-by-play commentary about which political tag-team is “winning,” as if this were a pro wrestling match — with an overlay of gloat that the Republicans fell oafishly out of the ring in the early rounds.

Of course, an issue even larger than the health care fiasco is this society’s tragic and astounding inability to discuss anything coherently in the public arena, and that might possibly be traced to the failures of education in our time and its effects on the current crop of editors and news producers — people who grew up hearing that reality was just a constructed “narrative” and that one narrative was as good as another.

So, you would surmise from reading the papers (or their web editions) that the health care problem was simply a matter of apportioning insurance coverage. That is what the stage magicians call misdirection. Any way you cut the dynamics of health insurance, as practiced in the USA these days, it is nothing but racketeering, literally a conspiracy between informed players to swindle uninformed “patients.” The debate in congress (and the news media) is just about who gets to be swindled.

This is almost entirely due to the hocus-pocus of pricing for services. For an excellent dissection of all this, I urge you to read Karl Denninger’s comprehensive manifesto, How To Permanently Fix Health Care For All, which he posted one month ago. You have to wonder whether anybody in congress happened to read this, because the debate has been devoid of any of the crucial points that it addresses.

The way it works now, the so-called “providers” (doctors, hospitals) refuse to post the cost of any service, and then charge whatever they feel they can extract, subject to and abstruse and dishonest ceremonial “negotiation” with the insurance company. The result: hospital and insurance executives get paid multi-million dollar salaries, doctors get to drive fine German cars, and the patient gets financially ass-raped, kicked to the curb, and eventually stuffed into the bankruptcy courts.

ObamaCare did nothing to fix this. It just added more victims to the rolls and upped the price of admission for a personal financial ass-raping, so that an insured individual could go to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy and end up getting dunned for thousands of dollars — or even more if one of the hosptial’s favorite cute scams is applied, such as calling in an out-of-network anesthesiologist to knock you unconscious (in which state you are unlikely to inquire whether he/she/zhe is in-network or out).

Under the current system, a hospital can bill you $5,999 to stitch up a cut finger, mitigate a bee-sting, or wind an Ace bandage around a sprained ankle, and you’re sure not to learn the cost-of-treatment until the postman drops off the incomprehensible “explanation of benefits” from the insurance company that states in bold print on top “This Is Not a Bill,” but actually is a report of your own incipient financial ass-raping.

But judging from the news reports this day, none of these issues is actually on the table in the congressional debate. I don’t believe the editors of The New York Times are necessarily “in bed” with the overpaid hospital CEOs and the insurance company fraudsters. They are simply putting up a defense of their previous psychological investment in Democratic Party ideology — in the shibboleth that ObamaCare was unquestionably a great thing because it was created under the magically empowered 44th president.

I can believe that both Democratic and Republican law-makers are not only in bed with the medical fraudsters of all categories, but are performing a particularly odious form of sadomasochistic bondage-and-discipline sex in exchange for payoffs. Note, too, that none of the aforementioned major media have reported what the medical and insurance lobbyists have paid to their rent-boys and doxies in the US capitol. Wouldn’t you like to know?


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Kunstler's gripe about US healthcare is deceiving. He may have mentioned Denninger - more of a free market advocate - but his real goal is a tighter grip on individuals by Government. He isn't against Govt control of heathcare...he just wants it enforced better...more of an iron hand approach.

All of Kunstler's positions confirm this: he's railed against technology, and advocated for govt to eliminate private automobiles; he would herd everyone onto mass transit. Just last week, a gang of teens, about 50 or more, swarmed a BART train in San Francisco and beat and robbed passengers. For years Kunstler pushed the myth of peak oil, the depletion of oil, the coming descent into darkness and the need to flee back into the 18th century. You don't hear Kunstler speak of peak oil any longer. Each year seems to bring announcements of new oil deposit discoveries.

The solution to Healthcare in America is not a complex one. It does not need a police state to enforce. Healthcare is simply an individual responsibility, and govt has NO business in that area.
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It's been a long time since I read one of your comments. Nice to see you back.

And by the way, I agree 100%
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Reading this, i'm glad I live in the UK and all our healthcare is free at source, provided by the sacrifice our forefathers made fighting fascist scum in the Second World War.
All achieved by Trade Union solidarity - no pay rises this time, eaten away by the devaluation of silver coins in 1920 after the Great War - a social benefit via the Beveridge Report created the Health Service we know today.
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I've read a lot of negatives about healthcare in the UK. A government can for a while deliver free healthcare that seems good...until, like Thatcher said, governments run out of other's people's money. And it is other people that government's rob via taxation to pay for any freebie. It buys votes. It's usually a slow decline in the standard of living as private enterprise gradually wilts and dies...as is happening now in Venezuela.

Incidentally, government control of the economy via forced taxation if unchecked metastasizes into the cancer of Fascism...what both our nations fought against.
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Government run [anything] = poorly run [anything].
For example,
Healthcare = VA
Finance = Fed has devalued the currency by 98%, and caused or worsened two depressions.
Postal = ha ha ha. The phrase, "Going Postal" didn't come from nowhere. Horrible service and generally unhappy employees.

People working for government agencies have no skin in the game. There are no consequences for failure. So, you get horrible service, that costs a fortune, and still manages to lose money. The bailout mentality that has developed over the last 20 years has extended this into the private sector, resulting in Crony Capitalism, a.k.a. Fascism. Obamacare was just the next step in the socialization of health care. It has been going on for decades.
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The Organized criminal cartel known as the FED is private but the government gets what it wants from it, an unlimited charge account and 'We the people" get the bill. Traitors and criminals make happy bedfellows.
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