**** NOTE: On a serious note here, healthcare in the U.S. is about to exceed 18% of the GDP. Our economy, jobs, spending, etc, are becoming too dependent on this, for so called "growth". If we do not do anything about this out of control healthcare system now, looking at the math, it can really hurt us bad/ worse economically as it continues. At the rate this is currently going and growing, it can't get better, without drastic reform.
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This posting is just a quickie posting for a laugh, it will serve the "Health Care Reform" and "American Exceptionalism" series of this journal/ blog. I realize that this is not a laughing matter, at all ... but I couldn't help laughing when seeing these folks response and cost estimates in the UK, concerning our health care costs, and the expression on their face when they found out our actual costs. All we hear out of politicians year after year here in the U.S., is how difficult it is to try to get the health care that an increasing majority of Americans want. It wouldn't be so difficult, if Washington would just not allow this problem to grow and grow, to where it gets bigger and bigger, year after year ... so it's the fault of our Congress who feeds the fire, this is one of the money issues that both parties are bipartisan on, for sure ... with just a handful of Democrats to join Republicans, every time, to make any progress fail. No doubt, year after year of continuous stalling, neglect, and corporate control interference, it is difficult to a degree, especially with the politicians of these 2 political party establishments we have. Difficult being also, that as year after year pass by, there is NO attempt to stop this crazy train of insane costs that is about to derail. I mean, there is so MUCH that "could be" done legislatively, to at least slow it down some, if anything, but they neglect to do ANYTHING, with the exception of talking about it when elections come up. It is so bad, that we can't even, only, negotiate drug and medical service prices, have any kind of real competition, or attempt to break up what is clearly a monopoly, and anti- free market. And anything that does get done, is to where what should be a simple couple dozen pages for a bill, ends up with a couple thousand pages, that are planned for months by corporate lawyers for big med/ pharma/ insurance and corporate think tanks. This is also why I hesitate, whenever they say they are going to do something, that gets bipartisan support ... my first thought is "what are they going to fuck us out of now?".
I don't know much about the NHS in UK ... but you can clearly see, how corporate America been trying to take over their system as well (The Guardian), which the corporate global neoliberal goal, is to dismantle national health care sytems and privatize everything. Back in the latter 80s, I got some sort of stomach virus, in London, I think I got it eating at one of the indie kebab joints I frequented for a quick bite, that are all over London, like indie taco joints in Dallas. But a buddy, who's a local and musician from Fitzrovia- Camden- London, where I was staying at the time, took me to a small hospital/ clinic place in London. I got to see a doctor after a short wait, maybe 30 minutes, and there was no ton of paper work to fill out like here, with signing of multiple financial responsibility documents or whatever, just asked my name ... even the doctor was friendly, he thought it was cool that I had what he called a distinguished English name, but was from Dallas, telling me of the roots of the name, etc ... I told him because my dad's family were from England. But the process was a little over an hour, I was prescribed meds, I got at a window around the corner down the hall from where I checked in, total out of pocket/ money was about 6 pounds (about $9 U.S. dollars), no one asked me for anything else, didn't even ask for a passport, insurance, etc. So that is the only experience I had over there ... I also was in Canada for awhile, but didn't use their health care system, but my sister- in- law just retired from a career in their government health care system, she was a RN for years in a Central Toronto hospital ... and she told me she was shocked at what we pay, even. The health care costs here in the U.S., are not just outrageously excessive ... but it's downright stupid, bold, and cocky of politicians, with how they pander to this shit, and what we are told to put up with. Below are a couple videos, the second video is a short :20 second clip from some recent Democratic presidential debates, which really made me laugh as well, at what Joe Biden told Senator Bernie Sanders, on why we pay so much more than other countries, even Senator Elizabeth Warren looked like she was about to laugh.
True cost of US healthcare shocks the British public ... Thanx to PoliticsJOE
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Battle Over Medicare for All | NowThis ... Thanx to NowThis News
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***** PD/ RCJ: HEALTH CARE REFORM: ... another "FORM' of "REFORM" ... PART'S 14 THRU 1
***** PD/ RCJ: "AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM" ... PART'S 15 THRU 1
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***** RANCH CHIMP JOURNAL "WELCOME" POST
***** RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)
***** "THE RESISTANCE | PERILS OF THE POWER POSSE" ... ( a 2 part futuristic Ranch Chimp Journal dream to dream on )
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This posting is just a quickie posting for a laugh, it will serve the "Health Care Reform" and "American Exceptionalism" series of this journal/ blog. I realize that this is not a laughing matter, at all ... but I couldn't help laughing when seeing these folks response and cost estimates in the UK, concerning our health care costs, and the expression on their face when they found out our actual costs. All we hear out of politicians year after year here in the U.S., is how difficult it is to try to get the health care that an increasing majority of Americans want. It wouldn't be so difficult, if Washington would just not allow this problem to grow and grow, to where it gets bigger and bigger, year after year ... so it's the fault of our Congress who feeds the fire, this is one of the money issues that both parties are bipartisan on, for sure ... with just a handful of Democrats to join Republicans, every time, to make any progress fail. No doubt, year after year of continuous stalling, neglect, and corporate control interference, it is difficult to a degree, especially with the politicians of these 2 political party establishments we have. Difficult being also, that as year after year pass by, there is NO attempt to stop this crazy train of insane costs that is about to derail. I mean, there is so MUCH that "could be" done legislatively, to at least slow it down some, if anything, but they neglect to do ANYTHING, with the exception of talking about it when elections come up. It is so bad, that we can't even, only, negotiate drug and medical service prices, have any kind of real competition, or attempt to break up what is clearly a monopoly, and anti- free market. And anything that does get done, is to where what should be a simple couple dozen pages for a bill, ends up with a couple thousand pages, that are planned for months by corporate lawyers for big med/ pharma/ insurance and corporate think tanks. This is also why I hesitate, whenever they say they are going to do something, that gets bipartisan support ... my first thought is "what are they going to fuck us out of now?".
I don't know much about the NHS in UK ... but you can clearly see, how corporate America been trying to take over their system as well (The Guardian), which the corporate global neoliberal goal, is to dismantle national health care sytems and privatize everything. Back in the latter 80s, I got some sort of stomach virus, in London, I think I got it eating at one of the indie kebab joints I frequented for a quick bite, that are all over London, like indie taco joints in Dallas. But a buddy, who's a local and musician from Fitzrovia- Camden- London, where I was staying at the time, took me to a small hospital/ clinic place in London. I got to see a doctor after a short wait, maybe 30 minutes, and there was no ton of paper work to fill out like here, with signing of multiple financial responsibility documents or whatever, just asked my name ... even the doctor was friendly, he thought it was cool that I had what he called a distinguished English name, but was from Dallas, telling me of the roots of the name, etc ... I told him because my dad's family were from England. But the process was a little over an hour, I was prescribed meds, I got at a window around the corner down the hall from where I checked in, total out of pocket/ money was about 6 pounds (about $9 U.S. dollars), no one asked me for anything else, didn't even ask for a passport, insurance, etc. So that is the only experience I had over there ... I also was in Canada for awhile, but didn't use their health care system, but my sister- in- law just retired from a career in their government health care system, she was a RN for years in a Central Toronto hospital ... and she told me she was shocked at what we pay, even. The health care costs here in the U.S., are not just outrageously excessive ... but it's downright stupid, bold, and cocky of politicians, with how they pander to this shit, and what we are told to put up with. Below are a couple videos, the second video is a short :20 second clip from some recent Democratic presidential debates, which really made me laugh as well, at what Joe Biden told Senator Bernie Sanders, on why we pay so much more than other countries, even Senator Elizabeth Warren looked like she was about to laugh.
True cost of US healthcare shocks the British public ... Thanx to PoliticsJOE
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Battle Over Medicare for All | NowThis ... Thanx to NowThis News
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***** PD/ RCJ: HEALTH CARE REFORM: ... another "FORM' of "REFORM" ... PART'S 14 THRU 1
***** PD/ RCJ: "AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM" ... PART'S 15 THRU 1
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*****************************************************************************
***** RANCH CHIMP JOURNAL "WELCOME" POST
***** RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY (my hand- selected music/ arts picks)
***** "THE RESISTANCE | PERILS OF THE POWER POSSE" ... ( a 2 part futuristic Ranch Chimp Journal dream to dream on )
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