Seven Sons

The current health care system is riddled with inefficiency. Health insurance companies spend, what, 1/3 of their money on overhead? Vs 1/2 of 1% for Medicare? I’m not saying reproduce Medicare, but there’s a hell of a lot of room between 33% and .5% for cutting. And let’s not get into Big Pharma and their advertising budgets for Celebrex or whatever they’re pushing this month (God damn the pusher man…)

Give me a public option plan, minimal overhead like Medicare that lists exactly what they will pay for and how much (be it a drug or a procedure), and watch it drive down everyone else’s fat-ass profit margins to something far more reasonable. You don’t think providers will take patients from a public plan that covers 20% of the population? They’ll just ignore that?

Seriously, THIS IS NOT FUCKING HARD. A ten-year old can grasp the math. You don’t need a degree in economics, just basic sense. But ten-year olds don’t need campaign money if they want to turn 11.

Story on CNN.com today, out of the blue, about how sex scandals can be bipartisan. Thank you for reminding us that Democrats also have dicks (if they only had balls to go with them). Blatant overcompensation–the second Dem example is Gary Hart, whose scandal was barely pre-dated by the most recent Scritti Politti album. There are legally-drinking college graduates who were not alive when that happened. The other Democratic examples were Spitzer and that drunk senator who flipped for the stripper in 1974. The Pinto debuted in 1974 so, yeah, that’s timely. Assinine.