Healthcare $.02
Look, people. Healthcare is expensive. It’s expensive because doctor’s fees are expensive, which is a result of medical school being expensive, long, and difficult. You need to accept the inherit expense of healthcare before trying to come up with a solution, or else you will be plagued with a bunch of ideas that violate the conservation of money (not strictly true all the time, but simplify, simplify with me here). I don’t really care that your former health plan was great and you only paid $XXXX per year for it, because that cost was being subsidized by someone or something else. And I don’t want to hear about how in Europe (that mystical land of ideas that are apparently always without fail far more advanced than anything anyone has ever dreamed of in the US) they do this, that, or the other thing and somehow everyone is taken care of for no cost, because that’s bullshit.
Seriously, just shut up. People who could afford good healthcare in the past will still do that. People who got fucked in the past, I’m sorry to say, will continue to get fucked. There’s no way the US will switch to fully public healthcare because that’s completely against the foundation of this nation, and this lack of an all-or-nothing solution will hamstring anything that gets pushed through congress. So if it’s going to suck anyways, then fuck, can’t I NOT support it with more taxes?
Note: I don’t read the news or anything but apparently something is happening with healthcare so I figured I’d spit some truth on the subject.
