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Click, click.
Twice a year, sometimes more because I do have vision problems, I visit an eye doctor. Every time...and I mean every single time...the exam starts out with my face smashed against that...that...that clicking eye thingie. I don't know what it's called, but most likely everyone knows what I mean. You look through the eye holes and read the chart on the wall, then the examiner clicks different lenses into place and you read the chart again.
Click, click.
"Is it better this way?"
Click, click.
"Or this way?"
Click, click.
"This way?"
Click, click.
"Or this way?"
Click, click.
"Number five?"
Click, click.
"Or number six? Which is better?"
Click, click, click, click, click.
"How about this way?"
Then, at the end of this forever, you find out if you need different glasses or not.
"This is your health care reform."
Click, click.
"With a public option?"
Click, click.
"Or no public option?"
Click, click.
"Weak public option?"
Click, click.
"Robust public option?"
Click, click.
"Or no public option?"
Click, click.
"With a trigger?"
Click, click.
"How about with a co-op?"
Click, click.
"Or no public option?"
Click, click.
"Public option or co-op? Which is better?"
Click, click, click, click, click.
"Decent public option with an opt-out?"
At the end of what seems like forever in this back and forth discussion, when the vote is counted, when the bill is signed.....
We will have significant HCR.
We will have a decent public option.
And lobbyists will burn in hell.
It is written.
Click, click.
"Is it better this way?"
Click, click.
"Or this way?"
Click, click.
"This way?"
Click, click.
"Or this way?"
Click, click.
"Number five?"
Click, click.
"Or number six? Which is better?"
Click, click, click, click, click.
"How about this way?"
Then, at the end of this forever, you find out if you need different glasses or not.
"This is your health care reform."
Click, click.
"With a public option?"
Click, click.
"Or no public option?"
Click, click.
"Weak public option?"
Click, click.
"Robust public option?"
Click, click.
"Or no public option?"
Click, click.
"With a trigger?"
Click, click.
"How about with a co-op?"
Click, click.
"Or no public option?"
Click, click.
"Public option or co-op? Which is better?"
Click, click, click, click, click.
"Decent public option with an opt-out?"
At the end of what seems like forever in this back and forth discussion, when the vote is counted, when the bill is signed.....
We will have significant HCR.
We will have a decent public option.
And lobbyists will burn in hell.
It is written.
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I you sure you aren't blind?
October 25, 2009 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
None so blind, Bluebell, as he who has eyes and will not see.
October 25, 2009 1:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm positive, bluebell. Absolutely positive.
October 25, 2009 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
We're almost there, Flowerchild!
October 25, 2009 1:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
That we are, OT.
It took a hundred years, five generations, to go from the abolition of slavery to the reform of our civil rights. It's been nearly a hundred years since health care began being considered a right and not a privilege. We're slow, but we do get there.
HCR's time has come.
October 25, 2009 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
When it passes, the click, click will evolve into the clink, clink of (different) glasses celebrating!
Appreciate post and rec'd!
October 25, 2009 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clink!
October 25, 2009 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clink!
October 25, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
YOU KNOW THIS IS VERY CLEVER. This is remarkable.
This should be published in the NYT or Washington Post.
WOW
October 25, 2009 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, I do have one question, Flowerchild.
What has been of concern to me, the question that I have had is,
ARE YOU FIRED UP?!!
October 25, 2009 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dewd! I'm on FIRE! I got the Hot Brain!!!!
October 25, 2009 8:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
And all those adjustments, every "click" you mention, is primarily for the purpose of stroking an insurance industry insider or lobbyist.
Take their greedy increments out of the process, and everything would be 20-20.
I STILL like the idea of federal and state cooperative diagnostic clinics. Just as a place to start. Let me elucidate.
Approach this reform the way a patient approaches treatment. Start at the beginning, (diagnosis) resolve those problems, then keep working through the system along it's myriad branches.
START with federally funded diagnostic clinics. Not just federal funds, titled "insurance," tossed willy-nilly at the existing system.
Use this opportunity to start to change the fundamental system, especially change the parts we know are breaking us. And the best way to start that process would be federally funded diagnostic clinics.
Lets start turning this back into a health CARE debate, not a health INSURANCE debate.
October 26, 2009 7:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
JEP, if greed was not a factor, this health debate would have been over 40 years ago. All the clicking going on is to find the place where all the players can get away with providing the least. 'Good intentions' were never a factor. Health care was never a factor. It's all about the money.
The cooperative diagnostic clinics sound like triage, to me. Am I getting that right? That's alright for a war zone, but the road bump is that not every patient approaches treatment in the same way. Some will call an ambulance to take them to emergency to treat a hangnail. Others will ignore pain to the point of no return. Changing a fundamental system would take a tremendous amount of grunt work, JEP. I don't know if the American people could muster it.
October 26, 2009 10:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
So are you saying the writing is on the wall?
Somebody alert the Blue Dogs, QUICK!
October 26, 2009 8:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
We will have significant HCR.
We will have a decent public option.
And lobbyists will burn in hell.
It is written.
This is my mantra, seashelly. It is clawed into the wall by every one of the thousands of Americans who die every year who do not seeking treatment because they do not have a way to pay for the astronomical cost of health care.
Blue Dogs...pfffft.
It's the moderate Dems in the House that are farking things up at the moment. Mine is just about to get an earful from me.
October 26, 2009 10:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Your mantra is my mantra, flower. Now, if I only had your eye doctor ... :-)
Good post.
October 26, 2009 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's self evident that the product of a nation and how that product is distributed among citizens has a direct bearing on the strength and well being of that nation. When all citizens are strong, healthy and well educated the nation is strong.
How we've come to have persons who fail to grasp this simple and obvious association is reflected in how we've fallen behind. Our job, and the job of every citizen is to keep hammering away at these dimwits until they get it.
October 26, 2009 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
If I had a hammer.....oh! I do! It's called the internet and I hammer away on a daily basis, as do you, tpc.
October 26, 2009 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink