Reason.TV takes us to a pro-ObamaCare rally in LA, where the crazies like to come out and play during daylight. Then, they take us onward to answer a simple question: Are medical profits keeping Americans alive?
Will Ferrel is the biggest waste of funds in Hollywood, a monumental distinction in the mecca of ridiculous waste. He demands more and his films recoup less than any other star, an achievement earned only by his willful participation in his own jackassery.
Why am I bringing this up?
Because I enjoy mocking the man.
Second, however, is the lack of people - looking much like the stellar citizens highlighted earlier - upset over his obscene profits, if profits can be obscene. How dare he make money on entertainment or something allegedly similar. Entertainment is a right. This is America.
"It's disgusting," as the protest woman said. People making profits on life-saving innovations is disgusting. Filthy capitalists.
However, actors and athletes and musicians, their profits are good and whole and decent and rightfully earned. The service they provide this country, in their thirst to stand in front of a camera wearing clothes someone else designed on a set someone else built and saying words someone else wrote, is priceless. We can't live without movies like "Step Brothers".
What I wonder is what these protesters and their like-minded ignoramus cohorts do for a living. Teacher? Accountant? Computer programmer? Government employee? What about their profits? Do they make money? Or do they pay money to do their job? And when they took their job, did the salary weigh in on their decision?
One ill-conceived and misinformed individual boasted the health system of the UK - where women are forced to have their babies in elevators and hallways - and Canada - where they take health vacations to America. Yes, let's trade it all in where politicians, those bastions of monetary discretion, make our health decisions for us.
We're going to be paying taxes immediately, if ObamaCare passes, while the actual benefits do not begin until 2014.
As the blogprof puts it: "..there will only be 5 years of benefits for 10 years of taxes."
The saving money angle? That's DOA, too. So embrace the rationed health care while our national debt rises like the stank smell of a new Ferrell movie release.
Obama keeps talking about all the money we'll be saving by making health records electronic. Oh the contrary. A new Harvard study says quite the opposite.
Harvard researchers say computerization hasn’t made medicine cheaper nor more efficient. True or not, the report comes at an unfortunate time for President Obama and his health care reform push because backers say the cost of reform can be somewhat muted by savings from modernization.
The report’s lead author, Dr. David Himmelstein, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and former director of clinical computing at Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts, says hospital computerization “hasn’t saved a dime.” Nor has it helped administrative efficiency.
So what are we getting out of ObamaCare? We're punishing people making money, while panhandling for anything free. And it feels so righteous.
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