Amerika

Go ahead, kill them all. It will not make a difference.

You will shake your monkey fists at the sky, then shrug and go back to whatever you do to distract yourself while you are busy cucking to the system. You will rationalize your opinion as logical and moral by any number of subterfuges, but you are just being stupid.

Face facts: the voters are their own worst enemy. They dodge the real problems and focus on little trivial issues. They do this so they can continue their personal drama. They are not thinking about history, civilization, the future, or even winning. They simply want an edgy excuse to do a whole lot of nothing while bragging to their friends.

This is the face of the humonkey, and it lurks in all of humanity. One reason I never got on with much of the far-Right is that they liked to stylize Blacks as monkeys, but to my mind, all of humanity has a monkey problem. In the words of Kam Lee, humanity consists of “talking monkeys with car keys” with only a few exceptions.

So your healthcare claim gets denied. You want someone tangible to blame, so you blame the CEOs, the politicians, the rich, or anyone else with something you want like power, status, money, or a hottie wife.

This is your inner monkey hooting and hollering, letting out his eek ook and flinging poo. You found a symbol, not an actual relationship.

Healthcare got ruined by the usual lie, also used in insurance and unions. Socializing costs — distributing them to the group as a whole, so no one has to pay for their own misfortunes and misdeeds — always promises to cut costs, but instead it creates a huge bureaucracy while passing on costs through taxes.

And yet the voters fall for it just about every time. Hint: nothing “free” from government is free; it is just a loan until tax time. Maybe not this year, but they will get you in a seven-year cycle for sure. They always do, and you pay it because otherwise “the children” might not have schools, Black people will starve, or al-Qaeda will take over Buttfuckistan (and hurt Israel, which is where Jesus is from, so that’s important somehow).

The socialization of healthcare began back in the nineteen-teens when government decided it wanted to tax you. This bill was passed before the war, but after the war, was used starting in 1919 for a number of functions including medical care for the wounded and displaced from the war. Who can argue with that? At least, unless they are unemotional.

In the 1930s, the welfare/entitlements state expanded under FDR. This included medical care programs.

The big shift occurred in the 1960s and 1970s.

First, the fed passed EMTALA, a bill designed to stop hospitals from dumping bums who did not pay their bills. The wizards in Congress had a solution: force the hospitals to give them free care until they were “stable.” That vague language accounts for trillions in cost to date.

The miasma of concepts used in the bill guarantee that if an indigent person shows up at the hospital, they will get free medical care until they are able to walk out of the hospital on their own. Show up with a hangnail, get treated for diabetes, cancer, AIDS, hepatitis, and schizophrenia.

Free? No, because the costs get passed to the hospitals, who then tack it onto your bill. The money has to come from somewhere, and the “somewhere” is always the consumer or taxpayer.

All those nice hippie-style programs — types of “socialized medicine,” like the NHS in the UK and HealthCanada in the pretend state to the north — like Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and welfare are funded by tax money. This drives up the price two ways.

The first way it drives up prices is a lack of competition. When the only customer is the government, all you have to do is confuse whatever 400lb 90-IQ go-nowhere-do-nothing person is rubber-stamping the approval forms. When they get confused, they default to whatever will not get them fired, which is approving care.

The second way it drives up prices is through dual bureaucracy costs. You pay for a huge federal healthcare bureaucracy, and then every hospital and doctor’s office has to hire lots of little idiots to fill out the forms and be on the phone all day getting them approved. Those costs are passed directly to you.

Now, why did your claim get denied? Triage.

Every “free” healthcare system in the world discovers triage. Think of a supply-demand curve: zero cost means infinite demand. As demand rises, these healthcare systems try to find ways to cut costs (but never by firing administrative staff a.k.a. bureaucrats, many of whom get paid a half-million a year to shuffle papers with their graduate degrees).

This is why the healthcare companies unleash an army of bureaucrats to find ways to stop paying for your care. They need to keep costs down, and if asked, they will say it is for the poor, the children, the homeless, and the non-white, because keeping costs down ensures that these people get care too.

When your claim is denied, you are seeing them take a gamble. They have written millions of lines of rules. If they find one to deny you, you can appeal… but most people do not. The companies “save” money this way and are able to keep offering free care. Is it capitalism? The non-capitalist NHS and HealthCanada do the same thing, so: no.

You can blame the Brian Thompsons of the world for your problems, but what guys like him do is balance cost-cutting with growth so the price of the company stock goes up. That is literally his job: keep shareholder prices high so that investors, including your retirement fund and your state’s teacher retirement fund, get enough money to stay above rising taxes and cost-of-living.

So go ahead, shoot all the healthcare CEOs. Nothing will change. In fact, the system will be stronger than before, because now you will be paying for full-time security for all the bureaucrats, too.

If you want to make things get better, end the “free” stuff. Competition will then do what it always does: reduce costs and raise quality. Until the voters are willing to do that, what we are seeing out there is just another monkey tantrum to deflect from how stupid the voters are.

Tags: affordable care act, brian thompson, EMTALA, healthcare, kam lee, medicaid, medicare, socialization