{"id":235,"date":"2009-11-10T23:47:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T03:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-11-10T23:50:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T03:50:56","slug":"right-wing-health-care-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing Health Care Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Otto<\/p>\n

The USA is getting ripped off with health care. I spend $3600 a year on health insurance that only covers myself and my three children, have a $700 family deductible, pay 80% of office visit costs, get huge deductibles on certain procedures or treatment options, and I can STILL<\/em> wind up going medically bankrupt if my insurance company decides to find a way to dance around coverage of a dread disease, heaven forbid I should get one. I spend about $5000 a year on health costs in a normal year and I’m not getting treatment for everything I need treatment for.<\/p>\n

The solution to our health care problem really does lie outside our borders.<\/p>\n

Frontline recently ran a documentary on health care around the world.<\/a> If I spent the same $5000 per year on taxes to support health care, I could get my entire family covered, pay no deductibles, and have zero chance of being turned away for a dread disease, let alone going bankrupt for having one. <\/p>\n

And before the Republicans jump up and scream blue murder over socialism, I want them to shut up for a second and realize that one of the rightest of the right-wingers, a guy that makes Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck look like a bunch of Commie preverts, the very OTTO VON BISMARCK himself, created the idea of a government-run health care system. <\/p>\n

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That’s right. The guy that made conquering France cool and who popularized helmets with spears on them cooked up government-run health care. The German system has short wait times, lower costs, plenty of drugs, plenty of care, house calls, you name it. It’s awesome, and it’s so far to the right, it’s ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Listen to Bismarck’s impeccable right-winger credentials: not only did he invade France and militarize Germany, he also said all kinds of horrible racist stuff about Poles. He passed the Anti-Socialist Laws in Germany. He didn’t just argue against Socialism – he outlawed<\/em> it! He used a secret slush fund to bribe journalists and rip apart his political enemies. Bismarck persecuted the Catholics, imprisoned the Liberals, and ran roughshod over any sort of hippie socialism that dared raise its head. He survived a democrat’s assassination attempt – that’s right, a democrat<\/em> tried and failed to kill him, he was that right-wing. <\/p>\n

And he cooked up nationwide government health coverage in 1883, the first system of its kind in the world. From a right-winger who not only owned guns, he used them in combat against the enemies of his nation. Eat your heart out, Charlton Heston.<\/p>\n

And if that’s not good enough for you, there’s the Taiwanese system, which was made up by the ultra-right Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek. <\/p>\n

We in America could learn a lot from the ultra-right extremists. So there ya go. Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The USA is getting ripped off with health care. I spend $3600 a year on health insurance that only covers myself and my three children, have a $700 family deductible, pay 80% of office visit costs, get huge deductibles on certain procedures or treatment options, and I can STILL wind up going medically bankrupt if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}