The Worst Possible Way to Execute Health Care Reform: A Bourgeois Proposal

Here goes everything.

Since Washington is currently running absolutely amuck considering dishonest options that will please everyone in the nation (especially the conservative minority), I thought we could cut through all the complicated bullshit with a brutally honest plan (in its delivery at least) which panders to those who actually make the rules; the upper class. Having said that, my relatively simple (conceptually) proposal is as follows:

-The only people allowed access to formal health care will be the upper 15% of the population, since they're the only ones who can realistically afford it at this point. And I mean the entirety of health care; doctors, hospitals, drugs, crutches, the whole shebang. Plenty of these people are already doctors anyway, or at least CEO's for pharmaceutical corporations, so they should be able to hold down the fort. Literally, 'fort'. You have to keep the diseased masses out dammit. Health care programs for the rich will stay exactly the way they are now; privatized. The eventual outcome that we can hope for here is without the lower 85% to prey on, the upper class will become so competitive and inflated in its own ranks that it self destructs.

-The middle class (defined here as the population between the upper 85% and the lower 50%) will be allowed access to resources. That's it. NO PENICILLIN! Some will manage to fend for themselves, but the majority of those who become seriously ill will now be doomed. Population control! Eventual outcome to look for; the middle class, supposedly being the ones with enough backbone to fuck with the upper class, will develop a tougher skin and maybe muster up the will to wage war on the bourgeois (don't hold out on this one).

-The lower class will receive no accommodations. They can rely on homegrown medicine and family secrets to survive. The good news for them is the lower class has a history of incredible durability, being able to survive just about anything. Sure lots of them will die (population control!), but there's enough of them to where it won't make a difference. Eventual outcome to hope for in the lower class scenario; the poverty stricken peoples of America will develop a new super disease, which will develop into a pandemic, killing 99% of the population.

Prime objective: Apocalypse. The current state of civilization has become so hopeless that depreciation has reached the point where it's better to wipe the slate 99% clean, leaving the remaining 1% to start the whole futile cycle once again. I'm not serious, of course. But it's food for thought. I often find myself to be pro-apocalyptic, regardless of whether or not I would survive. It's the same as how some of us can embrace life so much, and at the same time realize that death is a positive thing and anticipate its beauty and tranquility with not a trace of morbid melancholy.


In more realistic news on health care:
"Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority’s cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks."
-NY Times

That's right. The Republican minority will be dragged like the screaming, kicking child it is into the future.