Health care rant.

Someone asked me what I wanted, did I want to go back to 1970's prices on health care. I said no, I want government prices. I want government funded and managed national health care. The government is the only entity big enough to control costs in any even semi reasonable manner. The increasing disparity between wages, inflation and health care costs proves the for profit business based system does not work in the modern world and economy. When blue collar semi skilled laborers could plan on working for the same company until the day they died while paying off a mortgage and college for two kids is long, long gone. Those days are never, ever coming back.

So how can we cling to a health care system that was designed to operate under economic realities that no longer exist? This isn't political, or ideological, or a threat to freedom, or anything else besides simple economics. Workers and employers can't afford to pay for health care anymore. You want to end illegal immigration? Pay day laborers a living wage with full health care and retirement benefits and there won't be any jobs left for illegals to take.

Some dumbass Republican, maybe Bachman don't care, couple weeks ago claimed people could paint the doctors house or trade them a fucking chicken, for what? For an MRI? For chemotherapy? For drugs that cost tens of thousands of dollars a week? A 100 years ago when health care consisted of a doctor coming by and shoving some caster oil down your throat yeah, fine, you could trade some livestock, but not today, not even close, that someone actually thought that was viable is past hilarious, past parody, you can't parody shit worse than that.

Government is the only entity big enough to manage the costs of modern health care. Unless you think that poor people should die because they're poor, then you have to admit that government is the only one that can do it. And instead of looking around at other nations systems and seeing if we can come up with one that's better and more efficient, which used to be the American way of doing things, instead of doing that we're calling each other fucking Communists, Glenn Beck is on Fox showing the links from Obama to fucking Hitler on a blackboard, and people cheer him on. Because apparently that's the American way of doing things today.