Posted on 09/29/2011 6:56:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Unless this is repealed by the next congress, and all citizen medical records are forcibly deleted by the government, I can imagine “underground” medical care to evade the government, even so far as to flee to Mexico for medical care, just to get away from them.
Oddly enough, medicine in Mexico has a real future, because their medical schools do not limit their number of students to keep the market in perpetual shortage, like they do in the US, and they neither have to contend with vast amounts of senseless bureaucracy or contingency litigation with immense insurance costs against malpractice claims.
This means far more doctors and nurses, at much lower cost for both surgery and medicine. And because Mexicans culturally take care of their elderly at home, nursing homes in Mexico are far better than in the US. So much so that it makes a lot of sense for people to export family members who are very infirm or elderly; both for the better quality of care and life, attentive helpers and far more of them, warm climate and even aesthetic attractiveness.
Even the food is much better. What’s not to like at a fifth of the cost?
“They can no longer hide the fact that they are incompetent, and get fired.” Oh, if only that were true. They don’t have to hide their incompetence, it’s just ignored.
The best part of the job was ‘Union Avoidance’ which was essential in the computer industry where labor cost increases could not be passed on by raising the price of our products. As is plainly evident today, allowing union organizing of government workers has bankrupted our governments from top to bottom and driven much of domestic manufacturing offshore.
This can backfire terribly. Viktor Suvorov wrote of a junior Soviet military officer who was just awful.
Soon after arrival at his unit he got drunk in the officer’s mess, jumped up on a table, pulled his pants down, and stuck a fishbone in his rear end proclaiming himself a “mermaid” before his commanding officer.
They couldn’t just kick him out without trouble, so he was given a promotion and sent to their headquarters. Within weeks, they figured out that he was a stinker, so they gave him another promotion, and sent him back to his old unit.
Then he discovered his one true gift, the ability to memorize and recite vast volumes of propaganda dialectic. So his unit sent him to Zampolit (political officer) school. He was at the top of his class. So he was promoted again and sent to an even higher headquarters.
The last Suvorov heard of him he had made it to the Soviet equivalent of the Pentagon, a still youthful Brigadier General.
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