Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Capitalism Gone Apeshit
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The big news nowadays is, 'Healthcare Reform.' American healthcare seems to have fallen victim to human greed, which is the principle underlying Capitalism. The result is that 50 million Americans lack reliable health care, and America has been 'left behind' the rest of the civilized world, which tends to view the health care opportunities of its citizens as 'human rights.' America is living in the Dark Ages in terms of health care, while the more enlightened European countries are living in Modernity. The 'profit motive' permeates a system which is supposed to be altruistic. Jesus Himself would not recognize American healthcare! Indeed, He would be appalled.
Furthermore, the American way to health care is so profitable as to be unsustainable. It has become a bubble threatening to pop in the same way the housing bubble popped. Intervention is required, and the political battle is proceeding even as I type this.
I live in a world full of idiots, as my readers already know. And the American idiots who oppose health care reform seem to be treating the matter as a zero sum game. It is not. Healthcare is a human right which enlightened societies provide to their citizens as a matter of course.
I will leave the broad outlines of any new system to the 'sausage makers,' but I would like to weigh in on one of the extremely important details of any new system: Circumcision. Any makeover of American health care should exclude routine infant sexual mutilation from the list of 'covered procedures.' If the 'sausage makers' can accomplish this, then the way will open to the next iteration: outlawing sexual mutilation altogether except in clear medical situations.
The big news nowadays is, 'Healthcare Reform.' American healthcare seems to have fallen victim to human greed, which is the principle underlying Capitalism. The result is that 50 million Americans lack reliable health care, and America has been 'left behind' the rest of the civilized world, which tends to view the health care opportunities of its citizens as 'human rights.' America is living in the Dark Ages in terms of health care, while the more enlightened European countries are living in Modernity. The 'profit motive' permeates a system which is supposed to be altruistic. Jesus Himself would not recognize American healthcare! Indeed, He would be appalled.
Furthermore, the American way to health care is so profitable as to be unsustainable. It has become a bubble threatening to pop in the same way the housing bubble popped. Intervention is required, and the political battle is proceeding even as I type this.
I live in a world full of idiots, as my readers already know. And the American idiots who oppose health care reform seem to be treating the matter as a zero sum game. It is not. Healthcare is a human right which enlightened societies provide to their citizens as a matter of course.
I will leave the broad outlines of any new system to the 'sausage makers,' but I would like to weigh in on one of the extremely important details of any new system: Circumcision. Any makeover of American health care should exclude routine infant sexual mutilation from the list of 'covered procedures.' If the 'sausage makers' can accomplish this, then the way will open to the next iteration: outlawing sexual mutilation altogether except in clear medical situations.
