ganked from Kat!
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blustockingmmmmm, Medicare? You probably won't.
I realize not many care about this, but as I know more about Medicare than I'd probably like and I'll be taking phone calls (again) from angry beneficiaries in a week and a half, here's my opinion...
They (They, being that entity we call the "government"), knew that this was coming. They knew the baby boomers would be hitting retirement age eventually, yes? And yet all that's been done, including this whole prescription drug coverage bill, the Medicare reform, all of this shite, is just a band-aid. No one seems to go the the root of the problem anymore. Maybe if health care didn't cost so fucking much, didn't inflate so quickly...maybe if the government noticed this, stepped in to put bloated pharmaceutical companies on a diet, then we wouldn't NEED this reform in the first place. Then again, if we didn't have a monkey in the White House, some of these things could be addressed seriously and previously. What should be happening is some legislation to control the health care marketplace. But we can't have that, can we. Because capitalism is freedom, right? And freedom is America, right? Right. At least the EU can slap Microsoft with a $613 million dollar fine (sidenote: HAHAHA!).
Either we get our act together, reign in the ye olde free enterprise and slap some common sense price stickers on MAINTAINING these bodies we so graciously gave the breath of 30 or 40 more years to, or we're given the option. The option to OPT OUT of the "system", to take our Social Security and Medicare deductions and put it in a savings account, to hide it under our mattress...at least until the "system" can get its act together and start over. No more overhauls, no more "reform", but a fresh start with a less complicated, long-term, looking-down-the-road-more-than-60-years plan. Low-cost/no-cost health care for everyone? What a novel idea.
And yes, what good does it do me to rant in my journal?
Little to none really. So I either hope I'm rich or dead before I turn 65.
That, or someone a little more suited, more inclined, less lazy, gets the rest of the country in gear.
I realize not many care about this, but as I know more about Medicare than I'd probably like and I'll be taking phone calls (again) from angry beneficiaries in a week and a half, here's my opinion...
They (They, being that entity we call the "government"), knew that this was coming. They knew the baby boomers would be hitting retirement age eventually, yes? And yet all that's been done, including this whole prescription drug coverage bill, the Medicare reform, all of this shite, is just a band-aid. No one seems to go the the root of the problem anymore. Maybe if health care didn't cost so fucking much, didn't inflate so quickly...maybe if the government noticed this, stepped in to put bloated pharmaceutical companies on a diet, then we wouldn't NEED this reform in the first place. Then again, if we didn't have a monkey in the White House, some of these things could be addressed seriously and previously. What should be happening is some legislation to control the health care marketplace. But we can't have that, can we. Because capitalism is freedom, right? And freedom is America, right? Right. At least the EU can slap Microsoft with a $613 million dollar fine (sidenote: HAHAHA!).
Either we get our act together, reign in the ye olde free enterprise and slap some common sense price stickers on MAINTAINING these bodies we so graciously gave the breath of 30 or 40 more years to, or we're given the option. The option to OPT OUT of the "system", to take our Social Security and Medicare deductions and put it in a savings account, to hide it under our mattress...at least until the "system" can get its act together and start over. No more overhauls, no more "reform", but a fresh start with a less complicated, long-term, looking-down-the-road-more-than-60-years plan. Low-cost/no-cost health care for everyone? What a novel idea.
And yes, what good does it do me to rant in my journal?
Little to none really. So I either hope I'm rich or dead before I turn 65.
That, or someone a little more suited, more inclined, less lazy, gets the rest of the country in gear.
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Date: 2004-03-25 06:33 pm (UTC)They look at Medicare, say "Oh shit! Well, we better muck it up some more..."
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Date: 2004-03-25 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-29 08:45 pm (UTC)How was it?!
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Date: 2004-03-29 08:49 pm (UTC)it was really really good. he talked a lot about john kerry and there was a long q&a session after his speech.. he was hilarious!