Universal Health Care is Fucking Boring
I try to pay attention to politics. I even read a lot of the bills that members of the senate don't bother to read. I like to think I know what's going on, but with this health care thing, well I have no clue. And that's because universal health care is fucking boring.
Don't believe me? Well, the most popular example of successful universal health care is fucking Canada. And Canada is super fucking boring.
Germans are very meticulous, neat, boring people and they too have universal health care. I think we all know what that means. If Nazis love health care how can we afford to risk loving health care? Universal health care clearly wants to eliminate the Jews.
And you know what's not boring? Bankruptcy, death and destruction. Those are pretty fucking interesting. I mean think about it; when someone tells you that they just went to the doctor and got some pills, you know you mentally check out. But when someone tells you that they're totally out of money and are gonna die because of the rising cost of health care and their shitty insurance policy, well you pay attention. Hell, you may even host a charity barbecue and get some people to donate to prolonging the life of the useless deadbeat in question. That's just how interesting chaos is. We, as a species, are drawn to it like artists to paint. No fooling.
And that's why I don't understand what everybody is getting so uppity about. All across this once-great nation, people are actually talking to their senators and congress-people in town hall forums. Many of these people are yelling and screaming about universal health care. I just don't see how all these people can get worked up about something that boring. As far as I can tell (and I can't tell very far on account of just how undoubtedly boring this fucking topic is) the poor people want the universal health care because they're too stupid to understand how money works and the rich people don't want the universal health care because they're too stupid to understand that the government can't legally sanction the killing of its nation's grandmas.
None of this makes sense to me. I mean, on one hand I blame the poor people for being too poor to maintain their own health and on the other hand I just can't understand what the rich people think is so great about grandmas anyway. I mean, when they're not making food, they pretty much just take up space.
Anyway, I decided to read a little more about this universal health care stuff and holy crap did that require a lot of coffee down the throat and death metal in the background (reading a thousand page bill on universal health care is more boring than listening to a lecture on the most boring topics of mankind in the most boring room in America, which is incidentally located in Utah, the most boring state in the union). Anyway, after all that reading I deduced the following about the proposed universal health care program:
- Universal health care is very, very expensive. Like twenty times the bailout per year expensive.
- Sick people suck and poor people suck, but sick, poor people? They're the fucking worst.
- For whatever reason, everyone in this country feels they are entitled to every fucking thing they want.
- Not one member of the congress or the senate would participate in the plan they're developing, which means they have no incentive to create a good plan. So, not only are they boring, they're also hypocrites. Which means they're boring hypocrites.
- The government hates you and wants to raise your children for you.
- Health care reform is, and I cannot stress this enough, really fucking boring.
- Health insurance is the number two cause of bankruptcy in America, right behind sick people.
I'd love to tell you more about this proposed universal health care gimmick—really I would—but the truth is that I just cannot read a thousand pages of legalese without falling asleep and drooling all over the pages. But I do think it's interesting that the policy language for my personal health insurance takes up less than twenty pages and congress can't even word this thing in less pages than your average Tolstoy novel.
And you know what? Come to think of it, Tolstoy's stuff was fucking boring too.
I guess what I'm saying here is, if we really have to have this universal health care stuff, could we at least jazz it up a little? Maybe throw in an action scene or the occasional set of titties? I mean, this is America baby.
And America was not meant to be boring.
That's Canada's job.











11 Comments
Nate the Great, don't be jealous just because Canada has good health care and we take care of our countrymen. We are also internationally known as the best country in the world, we have the biggest oil fields, the biggest fresh water source, and the best pot worldwide. We're set for life. Just because you have to wait 16 hours in a hospital and have to pay a crazy price to your doctors for them doing jack shit isn't a bad thing. Blame your country for not being on board with what's right. But it's true, we are pretty boring. Looking down at the States constantly fucking itself over is pretty fun for us. Why should we do anything when America tarding out is so much fun to watch?
Dumbass I have quality health insurbnce paid for by a really rich company. You fail to help the capable. that's why you're canada.
Once America's oil runs out, you'll invade Canada and all get universal health care anyway....
NPR.org: BP Makes 'Giant' Oil Discovery. Plus: 'Health Care Rationing Is Good'
Studies show that most Americans from my generation feel they deserve everything because of that show Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood. Plus, I haven't had health insurance in 2 years, and I'm doing fine. The trick is not to subjugate yourself to a shitty environment.
Settle down Nateski. You depend on a faceless corporation which could bottom out at any time and deny you coverage for whichever reason they want, regardless if it's justified. If issues and self-destruction could happen on Wall Street, it could happen in any other public or private sector. We Canucks choose to help people that deserve it, and if it's a smart choice to do so. It's called smart thinking, something your country should try once in a while. Canada isn't like you guys who throw money at a shit-wall and hopes it sticks just because it's a fuckload of money. Whether those people are 'capable' is irrelevant and pedantic. Just because someone is capable to do something doesn't mean they should be able to do it. There are tons of protocols and standards to go through. It's too bad you live in a country that doesn't understand the meaning of that. I don't blame you, not your fault. Your the one who depends on health insurance, we don't because have a long expectancy for a reason. Because the system works.
Fuck ur a dumb cunt nathan. People like you make all americans look like complete retards....
If I had to identify your myers-briggs, it'd be:
ESTP
ENTP
ENTJ
ESTJ
Am I right?
-You are definately an: (E) Extrovert.
-You are definately NOT a: (F) Feeler but a (T) Thinker, aka Asshole.
-Based on your views, I am leaning towards more you being a Sensor (S) and not a (N) iNtuitive. Sensors are usually people who live in the "now" and don't think about the past or plan for the future.
-Whether or not you're a (P) Perceiver or (J) Judger, I don't know your life habits well enough. Are you always on time for work? Do you make To-Do lists? That's what Judgers do. So I'm leaning more towards you being a Perceiver.
Take the Myers Briggs and prove this psychologist wrong:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
Psychology is guesswork. Sorry to break the news, but you will never be able to fit people into tidy categories. Hope you didn't blow too much money on the fake education.
I wouldn't have quite used your colorful wording, but I agree Nate. The only thing more boring is Anonymous' attempt to use some lame acronyms to describe someone he doesn't know.
And Canadian Anonymous, if your health care is so wonderful, why did my Canadian friend have to be sent to the US for her routine procedure? Because it wasn't even an option in your country; she lived in a rural area that didn't provide what she needed. Not uncommon. I live in the stix and I can get any routine procedure done right here (and even some that are extremely progressive). The furthest I have to travel for good health care is an hour to the closest major city if I absolutely HAVE to. Sounds like our country IS better.
Yeah, I guess Universal Health Care is boring, but to someone who lives in a country which has it (England...although we call it the National Health Service), the prospect of forking out a load of money after having sat around for hours slowly (or quickly) bleeding to death (yes, I know that's an exaggeration) seems alot worse than reading some boring legislation. I mean, you don't even HAVE to read the legislation all the way through (or at all).
Anyhow, since I'm living in a country which already has Universal Healthcare, and since I'm not likely to be affected by its introduction (or lack of) in the US, I'm not going to bother bickering with everyone about it.
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