[Healeys] cash for clunkers (OT- For those sensitive souls among us, hit the delete button NOW.)

[WILLIAM B LAWRENCE]

Jim,
You made me do it!
For a couple of generations the whole world has been telling us how primitive
we are and how we could better organize our healthcare systems and now it
looks like we, slow learners that we are, have finally caught on and may
actually be joining the civilized world in medical Nirvana. But it brings a
couple of questions to mind:
1. When our healthcare system looks just like theirs, where are Canadians and
Europeans going to go for a heart surgery or cancer treatment or a joint
replacement when they can't afford to wait 18 months?
2. When the government dictates the price of pharmaceuticals and destroys the
evil drug companies by confiscating all of their "excess profits" who is going
to develop the new generations of drugs to cure the diseases that haunt
mankind? On the other hand it probably doesn't matter since the president's
standard prescription is go home, take a pain pill and die.
I suppose new medical research will be planned and financed from DC, in which
case I foresee quantum leaps in technology in penile enhancement, breast
enlargement, hair regeneration, weight loss and aesthetic dentistry since that
is the level of seriousness evident in the congress. I also foresee a new
maquiladora industry springing up in Juarez (thankfully not too far away) and
Tijuana as medical professionals move south of the border and set up latter
day Mayo clinics to serve all the gringos who can't get the care they need
under the new plan. Now we will really be "exporting" the "jobs Americans
won't do". Viva Mexico!
Slap me now.
Bill Lawrence

> From: healeymanjim at hansencc.net
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 04:49:50 +0000
> Subject: [Healeys] cash for clunkers
>
> with the new health program coming down the pike, maybe we are looking at
"cash for codgers".  time for me to hide out in bali.   hjim