Here we are. Knock-knock-knocking on Medicare’s door.
First, I want to know who designed Medicare. I use the word “designed” loosely since this hot-mess-of-a-system is purposefully fragmented and filled with landmines meant to trip older people. It’s probably designed by the same team that orchestrated the tax codes. Daedalus, designer of the labyrinth that held the Minotaur captive, might have created something so stupidly complex. In government-program-design-school there must be a course entitled Over-Complicating Simple Systems.
Of course, the Supremes, in eliminating Affirmative Action, suggested that we already enjoy equal access under the law [insert eye-roll]. So, I want access to the same health program as Congress. I want to pay the same percentage of tax as the 1%. Or, I want them to pay the same percentage that I pay.
I’d write a nasty gram but I know there’s also a senior level course in government-program-design-school entitled, Tipping The Scales For The Few. You have to take it in conjunction with the class called Dumbfounding The Citizenry.
read Kerri’s more-pleasant-less-ranty smack-dab post.
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Our “system” is not fair (newsworthy, right?). Reagan’s policies literally killed my mother (colon cancer). Now things are much worse. The V.A. is underfunded, so that we vets receive less medical attention. It is a plan set in place by (drum roll) republiguns (spelling is correct).
Off kilter question: Why doesn’t Kerri get paid for her music??? She SHOULD be way up there. I guess I’ll never figure this country out. Perhaps that is why more talented persons from the U.S. are leaving for other countries – brain drain.
I like your spelling. It’s appropriate. Now that the Supremes see fit to legislate from the bench all things are a race to the bottom. Pity. (I’ll shoot you an email about Kerri’s music)