Monday, March 2, 2009
Problem solving ala Obama
Just doing some musings of the long past. I went back to the early 50's, looking for an analogy to our current national debate "Universal Health Care", and a way to resolve it. What came to mind right away was an Italian fellow in the neighborhood name of Vinny. Now I got the following information from an anonymous source, that was not authorized to disclose it. It seems this owner of several bars and cafes, a "connected" fellow, had a dilemma , to wit, an idiot of a son. Knowing he would be a problem in the family business, Vinny decided to set birdbrain up with a Dry Cleaning shop. Problem, there already was a well run,prosperous customer satisfying store in the neighborhood. Vinny decided to try his scheme anyways,by berating the other shop and boasting how his sons would be better. The neighbors did not bite. Another dilemma. The "Answer", sabotage the other store, buy it, raise the prices cut the service and "Presto", your the only game in town. So what if the people got slipshod service and the prices eventually went up,Vinny finally got his way and in the process didn't need to worry about his booze business. Hello, Obama???
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Well, this is what Vinny will do with healthcare: He will tell the doctors that if they want to take Medicare patients, they will have to charge less. If insurance providers want to cover Medicare recipients, they will need to charge them less (and in turn pay the healthcare providers less). Everyone who provides healthcare services will make less money and will be forced to scrimp. Some will stop taking Medicare patients as thye will be money losers. The Medicare system will be shown to be broken too.
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