By Dave Anderson:
Yep, best healthcare in the world, where you get treatment if you get shot even without insurance, but at the cost of destroying your fiscal future...
From earlier this month, at WPXI:
A car wash became a support system on Sunday for one of the victims of the LA Fitness shooting spree.
Heather Sherba, 22, showed up on crutches for a car wash held to help her pay her mounting medical bills..\l .
Organizers hoped to raise $500....
This is the healthcare system of Senator Coburn --- if you are too poor to afford health insurance, hold a bake sale, wash some cars, or count on charity. Do all of this, and individuals will still realize that the couple hundred bucks raised is not even a drop in the bucket for a random and moderate health-care incident. Are there no workhouses or at leastCensus Bureau reclassifications available?
Zuska looks at the implication of charity care and the continual American fascination on the dichtomomy of the deserving versus the undeserving poor:
Here's my guess: you throw ten bucks in the can at the young shooting victim's car wash, and you feel virtuous; you feel you have helped someone who "deserves" your help. You are participating in the mythology of "we all take care of ourselves and we don't depend on gov'mint handouts". But, you pay taxes to insure that everyone has access to adequate health insurance coverage, and the rightwing nutjobs convince you that you are a dupe who has been made to fund the lazy, brown- and black-skinned no-good-niks who are destroying America as you know it, and who will thank you for your efforts by raping your daughters and looting your homes if given half a chance.
If an individual has a good story, or at least good connections to spread a good story, they deserve care without bankruptcy, everyone else is SOL. That is not what I want in my country.
... But, you pay taxes to insure that everyone has access to adequate health insurance coverage, and the rightwing nutjobs convince you that you are a dupe who has been made to fund the lazy, brown- and black-skinned no-good-niks who are destroying America as you know it, and who will thank you for your efforts by raping your daughters and looting your homes if given half a chance.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't just the "rightwing nutjobs." That's an embedded fixture in the murkin social ontology.
The "deserving" poor are the white people "displaced" by Affirmative Action.
The "undeserving" poor are the 'lazy, shiftless, baby-spitting, fornicating drug-abusing' "others." That they are non-white is no 'mistake.'
Good grief, Cordesman is the nu-Kagan-Kristol, all rolled into one.
ReplyDeleteHe also ought to read Rubin's story on Karzai (Karzai in His Labyrinth). Karzai's "government" is anything but centralized. He runs it, in part, like an elder of tribes. It ain't working, each ministry runs itself for itself. Karzai has had to demand tax revenues from the Interior Ministry, which was hording the take. Corrupt, obviously. Centralized? Only in name.