Starving Healthcare
Health care… I get so mad about our health care system in this country… that’s probably all I should say. But Dang IT!… sometimes I just wanna…. no, no… gonna end it there. But France, and Canada, and…
Health care… I get so mad about our health care system in this country… that’s probably all I should say. But Dang IT!… sometimes I just wanna…. no, no… gonna end it there. But France, and Canada, and…
Um, well…a friend in British Columbia just had to wait months, in terrific pain, for an operation she needed on her back. And I could tell you a couple of, shall we say, interesting stories about living under the socialized medicine plan in Brazil. No system is perfect.
Well, she seems to go for genuine, name-brand Band-Aids.
Is the absinthe for localized germ killing treatment, or something else?
And yet beloved Twinkie got multiple doctor visits, antibiotic medicine, a brand new litter box and home recovery health care. Out of curiosity, what is Randie going to do with that litter box once Twinks recovers? Will he continue to have free use of it, or will she, uh, recycle it into a piece of “art” ala yesterday’s strip?
The challenge with any health care system is that you can have one that covers everyone but isn’t affordable, or you can have one that doesn’t cover everyone and is expensive but affordable to some.
The universal health care system, socialized medicine, or any comprehensive plan costs more than a society can afford to run in a timely and efficient way. Yet the private health insurance industry has very little in the way of control – either self-control or outside regulated control – to curb its greed. Sadly, the proponents on each side of the system are too vehemently opposed to the other that a solution through compromise seems impossible.
stick,
Well she could turn the the litter bo upside-down and call it a fountain.
A Band-Aid?
Try cotton gauze and duct tape!
You know you’re a starving artist when you use your art supplies as first aid equipment.
Seriously, scotch tape or super-glue on cuts. I’ve seen it!
So long as that finger is spouting blood, she might as well get some painting done. Hey, it’s free paint.
Now, where to find a Vulcan and get some green paint.
Some pets do receive better medical treatment than humans. Your toons are imitating life again! :^)
Looks like that’s a paper cut. The worst!
My cat gets better health care than I do, but that’s because I can verbalize my symptoms and be trusted to take my medicine without clawing anyone.
That’s why you have a single-payer system. Everyone pays in (no “free riders” who wait til they’re sick before they pay in) and everyone is covered. The “single-payer” just means there’s one company to deal with, it doesn’t *have* to be the government.
It’s just more directly under our control if it were the government. 😉
But with a single paying entity, they have a LOT more leverage when dealing with providers, to control service rates. Compared to what we have now, where sure your insurer has 5 million subscribers but compared to the other 50 million people they deal with it’s not worth the loss of giving in to your company’s demands when they can just write you off and cover it with what they make off of the others.
Final step is to realize some systems should NOT be for-profit. Nonprofit doesn’t mean charity, the people in it don’t have to work for free. And even charities can make some good money, just take a peek at the bank accounts of a few of the execs of the larger charities. Nonprofit just means no profit motive, ergo no push to heighten our fees while lowering our level of care so there’s more profit to be divvied up.
Make it a zero-sum game and watch em race to spend the money, getting us the healthcare we wanted in the first place. After watching what happened to that family’s house in an area that had a for-profit privatized fire department, I just can’t believe people aren’t watching that and wondering why we still allow healthcare to run that way.
Have I recently pointed out the similarity between an insurance company and a pimp? They don’t actually provide the healthcare, just make a connection between you and the actual provider …
See what happens when you get me started? 😛
Final note: I find it hilarious that some of the same political talking heads who tell us how horrendous a system of socialized medicine would be then have the unmitigated gall to turn around and remind us that we can also turn to our local churches for help too. So is this a lesson in irony, or are you now using medicine as a way of strong-arming people into your line of thinking?
(btw, for those curious – Christian, so no don’t bother going there)
Wow. OK. Time for decaf …
Grey, see!? … it happens! Health care makes me mad and so I just walk away…
and yes, Chug/Fuse: MY cat has better healthcare than I do. Mouse should relish her vet visits… they are fully funded and done with concern and responsibleness.
Jack… I hate paper cuts, too!
stick… there are artists who have done this…. blecht!
Dada/Joe… yup… I’ve done that before…. not the super glue part… but why not?
EofO… I don’t know what’s worse…. not having insurance, having a something bad happen and pay the rest of your life for it, possibly going into debt and/or bankruptcy OR what you laid out. No easy answers.
Pete… man on moon…. no health care. I see a priority problem in this country. Endless war… no health care. Athletic salaries…. teacher salaries… (gah… I’m on a soap box… sigh, somebody kick me off).
Beetle… a fountain?
stick… look up absinthe and the black plague… there’s an old story about the thieves… using absinthe (with wormwood) and garlic and some other ingredients to stave it off while they robbed the dead and dying. Cheerful story.
[Dada reference]