No surprise here — the greedy, rich and powerful will win again. They will rape ordinary Americans again. No surprise — because American is no longer the place for everybody — it is the place for only the rich.
Healthcare insurers get upper hand
There was never any doubt that the rich would win the health care reform debate. They own too many elected representatives who sell their votes so routinely that they don’t even know what they believe. Instead, they are told what to believe and what to say. They are the best Congress money, special interests, and lobbyists can buy.
Things will never change until there is a revolution. The revolution will not come from the middle class who think they will someday be rich. Instead, it will come from the poor — the place that all revolutions start. The poor are the ones with nothing to lose — it can only get better for them. Death does not scare the poor because it might be an improvement. As a result, they risk it all to gain a better life. Meanwhile, the rich will do anything, including killing all the poor, to maintain their power.
It is funny to see those old patriotic films about what a special place America is. It certainly use to be a special place. It was a place of opportunity. Now, it is a place of greedy corporations who outsource jobs. They offer no retirement — they even pay below poverty wages. Those corporations don’t offer health care anymore. There are an abundance of workers — so, what does it matter if some die because of lack of health care? They stupid people, according to the corporations, will have babies and create a new crop of workers who will work for nothing and stupid consumers who will buy the products from the greedy rich bastards.
America is doomed.
I love the way the media and financial community create an unending amount of bullshit to describe the economy. For example, consider the “double-dip” recession. This is when the government will declare one recession complete and another one beginning shortly thereafter. Really, does it make much difference if there is an uptick in the economy between two recessions — why not just declare that the first recession never ended and continues — or we bad: we said the recession was over but we were wrong. The reason is always political. When the first one ends there can be all sorts of banner ads — yeah, the recession ended. A short time later, a new recession has begun. Plus, how often do you hear, “We made a mistake.” It’s financial bullshit, delivered to your courtesy of the American financial media.
There is so much financial bullshit. Like the unemployment rate which is manipulated so that unemployment always rebounds as people give up looking for work and/or cease to earn unemployment benefit. Unemployment does not improve because of more employment. Thus, unemployment rate is financial bullshit.
Consider the import/export trade numbers — lots of bullshit. An American company outsources jobs to China or some other part of the world. Products are built and shipped to the U.S. The American company makes the profits with non-American workers. The American company can avoid paying taxes on the profits. Americans lose their jobs. Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit — and America is screwed, again.
Look at financial statistic after statistic and you will find assumptions and footnotes that render the statistic nothing better than speculation at a not-so-smart dinner table. Politicians will not let the truth ever be told about the economy because the truth indicates that Congress is doing a horrible job, the rich are getting richer, the middle class is being destroyed, and the number of poor is growing. Given that economics continue to deteriorate, why would the politicians want to tell the truth. The answer is simply they do not but there is no end to the amount of bullshit they will pass around.
Yes, America, raise your voice and declare “BULLSHIT”. Tell your elected representatives you know it is BULLSHIT because you are out of work, behind on your mortgage, lost your house, can’t afford health care, hate your low paying job, working for an asshole, etc. etc. It is time to take back the country for the greed rich bastards who caused all the problems.
America is doomed.
Believe it or not, most people reading this are going to die at SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES. They will be on Medicare and have the private health insurance HMO option. Let’s say — Health Net — but there are many and the result if usually the same. Eventually, you will get sent to a SKILLED NURSING FACILITY — it will be your last address.
Once you are with the private insurance HMO through Medicare, they will restrict what hospital you can go to. It won’t matter if you are close to a good hospital. The HMO will demand you go to some crummy hospital — it will likely be miles away. You will get crappy care and you will need more care after you leave.
If you are sick, you will get discharged to a SKILLED NURSING FACILITY. This is frequently a DEATH SENTENCE. At the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY you be received rehabilitation. For example, you might need help recovering from a surgery or procedure at the hospital and are not ready to return home. You might have physical therapy or need IVs, etc. However, at the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY you will get really bad care. They will put you in a diaper because they don’t want you getting out of bed. The staff at these facilities didn’t go into health care to help people — it is just a job — and a poor job — many will make $10 per hour or less — they don’t care if you live or die. You will develop bed sores — they will get worse. The food will be bad and you won’t feel like eating it. You will be depressed because you see that you are dying. You will continue to decline.
Instead of getting discharged back to your home, you will stay because you are now worse off than when you came in. The SKILLED NURSING FACILITY will restrict visiting hours so that your family can only see you during certain hours. During those non-visiting hours is when all the “rehab” occurs. Actually, most of it will not occur and even when it does it will be exaggerated. For example, instead of 45 minutes of physical therapy, you might get 5 minutes but it will be charted at the full time. Check — the physical therapist gets paid. Plus, if a family member declares that there was no physical therapy, it will be recorded that the patient refused the treatment. It is one of many convenient reasons for poor care.
As long as the insurance continues to pay, you will be in the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY. It will be very difficult for you to get released during this time, because you are cash in the bank. Plus, you are declining — so, how could you possibly be released since you are declining? You are declining by the design of the facility. You are going to die.
Now, you will see all sorts of banners at the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY. There will be awards they have won for doing such a great job at rehab. But these banners are just a facade. You are actually in a DEATH CAMP. No, there are no gas chambers — even though a gas chamber might be a more humane way to end your days. Yet, you will likely die and the longer you are in the SKILLED NURSING FACILITY the better are your chances of dying.
So, when you hear about Death Panels in the health reform bill, just remember America already has very effective death camps — they are the private HMO sending people to SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES.
America is doomed.
I get lots of calls from my web page. People are upset. It is almost like they enjoy the therapeutic effects of caling somebody and just speaking their minds. Many believe that America is doomed. Clearly, they read this blog or they wouldn’t be calling me. A few like to take exceptions to my basic tenets — they are wrong but I still enjoy their calls. Keep them coming.
Senator Liberman today said that people with health insurance can wait until the recession is over. The thing, Mr. Liberman, is that it will take decades for this “recession” to be over. I don’t mean before the economy grows a tiny bit from one quarter to another — that is how the government might like to define a recession being over. I am talking about when America regains all of the lost jobs plus the nearly 150,000 jobs per month it has to gain to keep up with increasing population. This recession is not going to end for along time. So, according to Liberman, let all those people without health insurance just quietly get sick and die. Liberman wants you to die.
Well, Fuck You, Mr. Liberman and the rich, privledged horse that you ride on. You are one son of a bitch that loves promoting wars and fighting for the rich and greedy in the country. I hope you lose your next election and I don’t have to hear you stupid views ever again.
Then, you have people like Senator Max Baucus from Montana. This guy is so far up the ass of the health insurance companies that he could not possibly be looking out for the people who elected him. Those people need to dump his ass from office and replace him with somebody who will look after them.
There are so many elected representatives that are only after themselves. They don’t care what happens to ordinary Americans. They only care about themselves. They are the reason that there is no hope. They are the reason that there will be no true health care reform, or energy reform, or financial reform. They are the reason that special interests and lobbyists will continue to win and the rich will get richer, the poor poorer, and the middle class decimated. They are the reason that there will be a revolution in America and America will be destroyed from the inside.
America is doomed.
Through my mother recent illness, I have learned a lot about the state of Medicare. There is some myth and some facts — let me explain.
Medicare started out as a government run program, but it has now been taken over by private, for profit insurance companies. I follow the news and did not know this had happened until I got involved with it through my mother’s illness. That is the thing about health care in general, until you have to use the services you make all sorts of assumptions about how it works. The people in the business know the truth but they are making $BILLIONS in profits keeping the truth from everybody else.
Most senors sign up for a combined Medicare and HMO/PPO plan with a private insurance company. My mother signed up years ago with a local company because her favorite doctor suggested it. Over the years, this local company was acquired many times and is now owned by Health Net.
Health Net is a HORRIBLE company. If you are with Health Net you have a great chance of dying if you need serious health care. Their web site is designed to confuse. Just recently, they converted their attachments from pdf to sdo. They still claim they are pdf files but you can’t view them. Turns out you have to get Adobe Version 9 to view them. It is impossible to determine that on the Health Net Web site. There are many other problems with the web site. For example, my mother need to go to a skilled nursing facility but you can’t use the web site to find any facilities. Likewise, there is no urgent care place she can go to. And, it is even difficult to figure out that there is only ONE, yes ONE, hospital she can go to.
With her Health Net HMO my mother can ONLY go to ONE hospital — a crummy one. If she needs blood work, she can only go to one lab. The lab is hard to get into, long waits, and no appointments. If she needs a procedure she has to drive many miles with long waits to get it done. Health Net takes my mother’s Medicare money and then makes it very difficult for my mother to get access to services. We will be opting out of this Medicare HMO plan at the end of the year and going Original Medicare. Here’s why:
With Original Medicare you can go to any hospital you want. You can get blood and tests done virtually anywhere. Everybody accepts Medicare. Also, with original Medicare you can get remote services, e.g. remote x-rays and blood work. So, if you are old and have a hard time traveling, people will come to you.
The Medicare HMO is literally trying to kill my mother. This is the truth — I am not even exaggerating this for a second. They want to limit her access to treatment to such an extent that she will die. If you want to talk about “Death Panels” the U.S. already has them and it is private insurance companies limiting access to health care through Medicare. Original Medicare is the solution and the HMO private companies are the problem.
It is not easy to opt out of Medicare with private insurance companies. You need to get an online account at medicare.gov and the (de)enrollment period begins on November 15th to be effective January 1st. My mother will be opting out of Health Net HMO — what we prefer to call Health Not. If you know somebody on Medicare, get the word out to dump the HMOs. It might cost you a few more bucks, but you will have access to services and it might save your life.
Don’t listen when people say that Medicare is a government run program because the private health insurance companies have completely fucked it up. Opt out of the Medicare HMO and you will get to a pretty great government program. It isn’t perfect because the private insurance company want original Medicare to suck also — they put in the donut hole problem. But, like anything the private sector does, greed is the only goal. The private sector has fucked America and will continue to do so until America elects people who are not kissing the ass of greedy, private corporations.
America is doomed.
