How The Health Bill Would Affect You

Kaiser Health News has a Q & A for consumers, detailing who would have to get health insurance, what programs are available to help them afford it and how the legislation would affect seniors and young adults (Galewitz, 3/21).

In a separate article, KHN details the immediate effects of the bill. "The provisions, which could just as easily be called the 'Democratic Incumbents' Protection Plan,' suddenly are everywhere—touted on liberal blogs, on the Rachel Maddow Show, in talking points by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. They're designed to counter Republican denunciations that the legislation is a government takeover of the health care system that will drain the federal treasury." The "early deliverables" include allowing young adults to remain on their parents' health insurance plans and help for some senior citizens to pay for drugs in Medicare (Appleby and Steadman, 3/21).

Here is how you will be treated once obamacare is in full force and, like England most of your doctors are from North Africa or the Arab countries.
(Courtesy of Joesph Heller and Catch 22)

Gus and Wes assist Doc Daneeka and take the responsibility for dealing with the majority of people who visit the medical tent where they have “succeeded in elevating medicine to an exact science”.

Their utilitarian method of dealing with any person presenting themselves at the medical tent is to take their temperature. Those with temperatures above 102° Fahrenheit are sent to the hospital; those below 102° have their gums and toes painted purple with gentian violet solution and are given a laxative that is quickly disposed of in the bushes. Those with temperatures of exactly 102° are asked to return in an hour to have their temperatures taken again. The only exception to this is Yossarian, who normally runs a temperature of 101°, but who can go to the hospital whenever he wants because he is not afraid of them.

Gus and Wes appear to represent organizational functionaries that anyone who has had the misfortune of dealing with an impersonal bureaucracy should recognize.

Gentian violet belongs to the group of medicines called antifungals. Topical gentian violet is used to treat some types of fungus infections inside the mouth (thrush) and of the skin.
It is more of an old fashion treatment and a side effect was it dyed everything a royal purple color.

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