Let’s coin a term for the OBAAMA administration’s new health care initiative…
Big Health is the union formed by the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industrial complex. Both of these mega-monolith industries must be salivating at the prospect of the U.S. government bankrolling their industries. After we gave out welfare checks to banks and to General Motors I can’t see why these beasts wouldn’t be in line waiting for their stimulus packages.
The insurance machine has been digging deep into the government’s pockets since Katrina, hell, since September 11th for that matter. The largest insurance corporations have underwritten so many different facets of American business that their bad investments are our responsibilities now. Too big to fail is a recipe for only one thing it seems like. Failure.
Big pharma takes its cues from the various pandemics that are posited in the mainstream media complex. Swine flu and athlete’s foot are the current bad guys they are fighting against. How is the president going to be able to regulate these behemoths when they both understand how to manipulate the press? The president will need the congressmen and the senators to eschew the greed that normally goes with their positions.
Get ready to vote your senators out of office in November if they block healthcare reform.
I wish it weren’t the case but people aren’t gonna vote SHIT out of office for their health– prove me wrong, truly, I beg of you America. Insurance racket = WORSE than the War Machine, which at least offers wild-ass technology, the occasional decent action movies. Anyway, Big Health (and its attendant lawyering) today is as ethically venal as anything we’d call “crime” rackets.
Meanwhile, dig this: I’m at the Brooklyn Public Library last Saturday (gotta love (ll) dudes who are shameless about their public pr0n browsing– even in the Science Library) and on the way out I’m met by a perfectly nice, young gal handing out… Bloomberg campaign literature.
I was cool to her because I know it’s a lousy dollar but I did say–
“I don’t want to give YOU a hard time personally but please tell your boss it’s a little bit odd and offensive that you’re handing this out in front of an institution facing massive budget cuts and isn’t even open on Sundays, barely open at night and pity if you actually want to use the Brooklyn Collection, which is open like ten hours a week now… How much public $$$ did the goddamn Yankees and Mets get?
Now ya’ll know New York City, far from being ‘sophisticated’ is in fact the biggest goddamn HICK town of all but still… When propaganda and cheap payoffs (like this gal’s campaign job) can convince enough people a corrupt– corrupting– billionaire is a motherfucking populist… I despair.
(And yes, you can be corrupt without taking the $$$ payoff, which Bloomberg himself doesn’t need.)
Cheaper to die.
Willis,
I wish you would tell us how you really feel.
Keep in mind that Bloomberg owns so much NYC property that everytime he gives landowners a tax credit he is really paying himself.