WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKET?

IGNORING COSTS

Americans are being bamboozled into health care reform. Why? They don't know the difference between MEDICINE AND SURGERY -- which is what health care really is -- and the social/economic issues that bedevil the delivery and distribution of care in America.

How bamboozled?

This graphic, provided in today's New York Times demonstrates just how detached the American public is from their health care. They are detached because they don't pay for it--they hardly share in the cost of it.

Since 1965 the personal and out-of-pocket spending by the American consumer has remained flat, while total national health care spending has gone up more than 400%.

Without direct involvement in cost decisions and implications, Americans have become as detached as trust fund babies from the realities of just what is being purchased and its relative value.

Americans have also been dumbed down to the point where overhaul of the system can be enacted under the ruse of a crisis.

Americans need a chance to choose for themselves whether they want their PHYSICIANS, their MEDICINE and their SURGERY to get thrown out with the dirty bathwater of cost, insurance provision and service distribution.

KILL ALL THE CHIROPRACTORS

A NICE ADJUSTMENT AT NO COST


The New York Time explained today how $1.1 billion of B. H. Obama's STIMULUS bill is going to be used to study the efficaciousness of medical therapies so we can stimulate the economy by making better health care choices. Obama is interested in finding out which treatments are better -- according to evidence-based medicine.

I guess, if this is a STIMULUS bill, we are hoping these policies will STIMULATE the economy; or, namely, help us get out of our current fiscal morass.

Will these 1.1 billion dollars stimulate our hurting economy? Will they save your 401K? Will they help you pay for that house you couldn't afford or for the equity loan you took out on the overleveraged, overassessed value of that home?

How about those tickets you bought for Disneyworld...and three nights at the GRAND FLORIDIAN?

I'm not sure...but if I were you, I'd look into refinancing instead.

Anyway.... that's not the point. I HAVE A BETTER IDEA.

If you believe in evidence-based medicine and you want to save lots of monies, just FIRE ALL THE CHIROPRACTORS. TOMORROW. Or at least cut them off. Cut them out of the health care pie--the part you pare into the garbage disposal unit.

No federal monies. No insurance repayments. Chiropractors go back to the paraprofessional primordial ooze from which their teleologically retarded pseudo medical science crawled out of (I believe it was inventive by a 19th century salesman).

Case Closed.

One billion saved.

Next item on the stimulus bill?