People
love to bitch, and I respect that. Often, people complaining about
random shit can be entertaining, as can be seen with FMyLife, which is
one of the best ideas I wish I would have come up with. However
bitching can get really annoying, especially when it’s about something
stupid that everybody loves to complain about.
Take "The Dark
Knight" for instance. Christopher Nolan gives the world a masterpiece
in cinema, yet instead of appreciating it like good human beings,
everybody has to knit pick about irrelevant shit. In this case, it was
Batman’s voice. Who cares if it’s raspy? Maybe we should just all watch
a masterpiece like "Batman and Robin", where Batman’s voice was nice
and clear, and the plot and acting were Oscar-esc.
Sports fans
are just as bad. Whenever someone accomplishes something great in
sports, like Kobe Bryant for instance, every jackass on the
planet has to say “Well he scored 81 points, but he’s still not as good
as Michael.” Too bad we’re never going to get another athlete like
Michael Jordan again, so comparing every last fucking NBA player and
their accomplishments to Jordan is pretty much useless. Morons.
Healthcare
has been another big issue. Ever since the start of the 2008 election
(and I mean the VERY start, when John Edwards and Ron Paul were still
considered candidates) everybody from both sides has been bitching and
moaning about whether or not we should have free, government-run health
care in America.
My question is: who cares? Does it really
matter? If you’re on the far right of things, you have nothing to worry
about, because government-run healthcare in America is as about as
likely as Kathy Bates becoming a swimsuit model. If you’re on the far
left, you might as well shut the fuck up and deal with it, because as I
just said, government-run healthcare ain’t happening in America.
Before
I continue, I would like to from now on propose that we stop
classifying “government-run” healthcare as a million different terms.
People like to say “free healthcare”, “Obamacare”, and “Socialized
Medicine”. When in fact, whether or not the government controls our
healthcare, it isn’t free because they will be using everyone’s tax
dollars to do so. It isn’t Obamacare, because Congress is pushing for
the issue more than the President is (numerous Democrats in the house
and senate have bitched about Obama not being proactive enough about
healthcare reform). And I guess you could call it Socialized Medicine
if you want, but nobody refers to interstate highways as Marxist roads,
nor public education systems as Communist School Districts, so I think
calling it Socialized Medicine is as retarded as the people who use the
term so loosely.
What’s my point of view on government-run
healthcare? Well, if I had it my way, every pregnancy before the age of
25 would be terminated, the only prescriptions old people could get is
for cyanide, and everybody who actually has an opinion on the
healthcare issue is automatically denied health insurance under any
circumstance. So I win.
I will say this, although I am a
capitalist at heart, I do believe that government-run health insurance
would be much better than the system we have now. Why? Because I love
hearing stories about how my friend’s dad got into a car accident
blocks away from a hospital, but they had to rush him to another one
miles away because the hospital that was closer did not accept his
health insurance.
I also love how doctors capitalize
off their patients, and care more about the money than actually helping
people. Like when I hurt my thigh after graduating high school, and I
saw my pediatrician (first mistake), and he did not know how to treat
sports injuries. So he told me to just stay off it for 4 weeks and take
the pills that he recommended. Four weeks later, I was still hurt. So
he recommended me to his friend a few miles away, who “specialized” in
sports injuries. Again, I went there (second mistake), the douchebag
did not know what he was talking about, told me to work out on my thigh
for six weeks, and if it wasn’t better, to go see his friend who
“specialized” even more in sports injuries. Since I hate striking out,
I decided to avoid the third mistake.
Seriously, how is
that allowed? If I ask a waitress for a coke, and she brings me back a
lemonade, usually she realizes the mistake, brings me a coke, and does
not charge me. Shouldn’t this apply to doctors? If they don’t know what
the fuck they’re talking about, shouldn’t they at least speak up? Like
“oh hey, I don’t know anything about sports injuries, and I know that
we have only talked for 10 minutes, so I won’t charge you the $85 fee
it costs to talk to me. Because, you know, I really didn’t provide you
with any service.”
These right wing retards (RWR) also love to
bring Canada into the mix every time a debate comes up about
healthcare. Because, you know, Canada is the only country on the planet
who practices government-run health care. Forget other countries who
are actually successful with it, like India, France, Finland, England,
Russia, and numerous others. I remember one time I brought that point
up in a conversation, and someone responded with “Oh, well Canada is
bigger than all of those countries, so it’s the most comparable to the
US” Really? It’s not bigger than Russia in size, and France has double
the population. I really don’t know what the fuck she meant, but to her
defense, I don’t think she did either.
The RWR love to rant
and rave about Canada’s healthcare system, mainly because people have
to “wait in line” to be treated. Well let’s see, I have been to the
emergency room twice. Once was because I happened to twist my knee on a
Sunday, and because no doctor’s offices were open because our country
is still a predominately backward Christian country full of people who
won’t work on Sundays, I had to go the emergency room to get my knee
looked at. The RWR had a great point, because I only waited 3 and a
half fucking hours to get treated. And by treated, I mean get a CAT
scan so the doctor could sell me some Vicodin.
The other
time I went to the emergency room, when I had a staff infection, I
almost waited two hours. So there you have it. If we went to a
government-run health care system, you would still have to wait in
line, just like those socialist monsters in Canada!
Furthermore,
what’s so great about insurance companies handling our healthcare
rather than the government? Insurance companies spend millions on ads
and lobbyists in effort to keep the government out of the industry.
Wouldn’t that in a way make things cheaper and easier for everybody? On
top of that, if someone is treated by a doctor in a case of an
emergency, where it’s required by law for doctors to treat people, and
the patient cannot afford to pay the bill because they do not have
healthcare nor money to do so, don’t hospitals and doctors just drive
up the costs to make up for it, causing insurance costs to increase?
It’s sort of like when people steal cable television, where the
providers just raise the prices on the people already paying for it.
Hmm, taking money from the upper class and giving it to the lower
class. It’s practically socialism already!
The healthcare
debate is stupid and irrelevant. I think either way, the healthcare
system, whether it’s run by the government, insurers, doctors,
churches, McDonald’s, Axl Rose, the KKK, Mike Hagger, Barack Sadam
Hussein Osama Bin Laden Hitler, or King Koopa, it’s going to have its
benefits and drawbacks. But as long as at least 40% of the American
people don’t want government-run healthcare, which they most certainly
don’t, it’s not
going to happen in America. So quit bitching.
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