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Aug 29, 2004 • 1973 surgical repair of broken left elbow • 1973 surgical repaired deviated septum • 1975 surgical sew eyelet into salivary gland • 1982 surgical repair eyelid after being blinded by flying screwdriver • 1989 surgical repair tri-partite fracture left ankle • 1996 surgical repair carpal tunnel right hand • 1996 surgical repair carpal tunnel left hand • 1998 exploratory surgery left knee • 2000 surgically fuse lumbar vertebrae #’s 4 and 5 • 2003 surgically fuse cervical vertebrae #’s 6-7 • 2003 surgically fuse cervical vertebrae #5 to 6/7 I have given you, my constituents my surgical medical history because I feel it is important for you to see that I have used the medical insurance system extensively. Why, you ask is that important? Simply because I have successfully navigated the maze of it all to the point with very few phone calls I had extremely minimal out of pocket expenses. As any of you who have tried to navigate this business have learned; you quickly become an expert at what’s disallowed, what’s allowed and, what’s allowed only when you conform to certain conditions. I dare say that anyone who has been forced to use the system has rapidly become more of an expert at it than any of the current candidates for the presidency. Thus is another reason why you should vote for me and the Load of Crap Party (still not an acronym). The LCLRaC party is the party of the honest. We claim this because we tell you up front we may (or may not) take care of the electorate after we have taken care of ourselves. The other parties and candidates do this too but they would never tell you this. They simply act like it is a right of office to have bigger and better than you. Where as we crap loaders tell you straight, we want lifetime benefits, including medical and pension, after one day in office. Okay back to medical insurance reforms. I obviously need no reforms at the present so I think it is time to speak about reforms for the fifty million Americans who have no insurance. They should die. Yep roll into little fetal balls and die. By them doing so it would drive (supposedly) costs down for the rest of us who do have insurance. The primary source of doctor’s care for the un-insured is the emergency room. This is also the most expensive form of care because this is one of the places where health providers can really stack on the costs. Twelve dollar aspirins, thirty dollar ace wraps and my favorite three hundred fifty dollar gurney in the hallway, tacked on as room fees. I am not so cavalier as to want to just take these un-insured out and kill them but I think that, like the other major parties, if we just give them no basic care they will eventually just wither away and out of the cost factor of medicine. They do not have to live seventy years, it would be better for all if they would just work their Wal-Mart, McDonalds no benefit jobs until they collapse and pass on to the great hereafter. By doing this they have served in both life and death. With this policy we could then force the medical industry to bring their prices into line with their new cost factors. We will be returning that un-spent money back to them who pay a portion of the medical insurance costs, thereby freeing up more money that can be spent at Wal- Mart and McDonalds providing more service employment for the un-insured. See it’s a win, win situation. Costs go down for the industry and the consumer and employment goes up for the un-insured. This is the plan, or it seems it anyway of the current administration and even possibly that of a possible incoming Democrat administration. Why a Democrat administration you ask; because the stated platitudes of their candidate are simply that platitudes. While past liberal administrations do seem to have a better record, in the attempt, than past conservative ones, neither has solved the problem leaving the unspoken truth of it to be the reality. Let them die and we, the insured will move on. This policy works for me too. Not because I like it but because if I were to say what I want then you would never vote for me. I won’t say that we, like near every other country in the world do not need doctors who make a half million plus a year but rather something more in line with what a teacher makes. I won’t say that we need research cost containment through nationalization of the research industry. I won’t say that we need the same level of medical care for all citizens and that if we can support a three trillion dollar budget than through a re- alignment of priorities we can support good, efficient, honest medical care for all. Nope I won’t say it because getting your vote as your write in candidate on every line on every ballot is more important than to me than taking care of them who have felt the talons of life as it swooped down on them. I am after all a conservative liberal and my stated policy takes care of both insured liberals and conservatives very nicely, thank you. And as we have all been informed by some of the media the ones who work at the un-insured jobs have less possibility of going to the polls; therefore they will take what we give them, which is nothing. Now I know that this plank is not a true reform plank but it is the honest one that says what the government policy appears to be. You can say that there is Medicare and Medicaid and No Child Left Behind and a whole host of other government entitlement give-a-ways in this country and that should be good enough but remember that fifty million is a shade over one sixth of the population. That one sixth I guess should just go away and quit being an issue…right? Now that I have made my position clear on the matter of medical insurance I dare the other three candidates to do the same. Remember on November Second; write in Mark C. Durfee on your ballot, not just once but on every line. Thank you my fellow Americans. ------------ About the author: Mark C. Durfee is an independent conservative liberal hedonist Christian Bhuddist deveotee of Krishna who follows no crowds and who thinks that the Viagra commercial with Freddy Mercury singing while a bunch of men dance is funny. His novels are nothing like his articles and they cannot be found at Barnes and Noble or Walden books, Amazon.com or your local independent bookstore because he has not been discovered. His favorite saying is "Duck!!! That drive-by may have your name on it!" Email: mcd5255@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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