Model
What happened to Dick Cheney's hunting buddy - by one account he took more than 200 bird-shot pellets to the face and torso - is the perfect model for the Junta's health care strategy. This is exactly how they see things happening. Dick must be so happy - not only is he seeing his national health strategy working first-hand, but he got to actually shoot a man.
He didn't just have to send troops around the world to pull the trigger. And he didn't have to get a sixth educational deferment to dodge the draft - no service to his country when people were shooting back at him. Just a spin and shoot - how satisfying it must be.
The health care system did work - a private helicopter air ambulance choppered in with a doctor on board, and the victim (unfortunately a Republican, but what are you going to do?) was airlifted to a waiting trauma centre with the best equipment in the world.
The key here is that the victim and the assailant were both rich and powerful. When rich and powerful people do things to each other - knife fight, pistol duel - there should be immediate choppers and medical technology waiting for them.
But when the victims are poor (or just not-rich, same thing), there should be a bottle of aspirin and the indifferent stare of an overworked receptionist.
See, Cheney's budget that he sent to congress cut all sorts of things, like children's health care and rural defibrillators. Hell, they even cut the research centre they opened in Christopher Reeve's name.
It's a little embarrassing, but the poor (once again: non-rich) need to take the hint: stop expecting health care. If you don't have the bank, don't expect the Doc.
At the very least, you can get shot by the Vice President. Don't get shot by some dirty street criminal or your spouse and expect to receive treatment.
And if you got Alzheimer's - forget it. No treatment for you - unless you're a president.
He didn't just have to send troops around the world to pull the trigger. And he didn't have to get a sixth educational deferment to dodge the draft - no service to his country when people were shooting back at him. Just a spin and shoot - how satisfying it must be.
The health care system did work - a private helicopter air ambulance choppered in with a doctor on board, and the victim (unfortunately a Republican, but what are you going to do?) was airlifted to a waiting trauma centre with the best equipment in the world.
The key here is that the victim and the assailant were both rich and powerful. When rich and powerful people do things to each other - knife fight, pistol duel - there should be immediate choppers and medical technology waiting for them.
But when the victims are poor (or just not-rich, same thing), there should be a bottle of aspirin and the indifferent stare of an overworked receptionist.
See, Cheney's budget that he sent to congress cut all sorts of things, like children's health care and rural defibrillators. Hell, they even cut the research centre they opened in Christopher Reeve's name.
It's a little embarrassing, but the poor (once again: non-rich) need to take the hint: stop expecting health care. If you don't have the bank, don't expect the Doc.
At the very least, you can get shot by the Vice President. Don't get shot by some dirty street criminal or your spouse and expect to receive treatment.
And if you got Alzheimer's - forget it. No treatment for you - unless you're a president.
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