Socialism By Force, For Your Own Good at Bydio

November 26, 2008 2 Comments

Mmmm, tasty. Remember, state mandates to pay a private company for a service you may or may not use are all for your own good, dear, so don’t complain. What’s that, you don’t want insurance? FEEL OUR SQUIRRELY WRATH, PUNY HUMAN!

Oklahomans without health insurance could lose their driver’s licenses, state income tax deductions or even college football season tickets under a surprising approach proposed by state Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland.

Such penalties might help Oklahoma improve its dismal ranking in the number of residents who have no health insurance, Holland said this week during her agency’s Summit on the High Cost of Health Insurance.

“None of those are very pleasant, but there needs to be a consequence,” Holland said Thursday.

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2 comments so far

Keith November 26, 2008 11:33 AM

What crap. Can’t we just fix health care without requiring health insurance or importing medicine from regulated countries? WTF? Let’s go single payer systems!
Donkeyrock November 26, 2008 1:41 PM

HELL to the NO.

The United States, Canada and Australia have single-payer health insurance programs named Medicare; however, Australia’s program provides universal health insurance, while U.S. Medicare is only for senior citizens and some of the disabled.[2][6] Government is increasingly involved in U.S. health care spending, paying about 45 percent of the $2.2 trillion the nation spent on medical care in 2004.[7]

According to Princeton University health economist Uwe E. Reinhardt, Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP represent “forms of ‘social insurance’ coupled with a largely private health-care delivery system” rather than forms of “socialized medicine.” In contrast, he describes the VA healthcare system as a pure form of socialized medicine because it is “owned, operated and financed by government.”[8]

The Veterans Administration is a single-payer system and provides excellent quality, said Reinhardt. In a peer-reviewed paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers of the RAND Corp. reported that the quality of care received by Veterans Administration patients scored significantly higher overall than did comparable metrics for patients in the rest of the U.S. health system.[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_health_care

C’mon, the V.A. hospitals as the best hospitals in the U.S.? WTF? The closest thing we have to a true “single payer” system in the U.S. is the V.A. hospitals, and we want to make ALL of our hospitals like that? Fuck no!

I remember talking to a V.A. nurse about 10 years ago, and she was appalled by the conditions in the hospital, and would gladly go to another hospital to work, except the V.A. paid better. That’s what we’d get, shitty hospitals and overpaid bureaucrats, all to the detriment of our health.