1960

"Chet, our psychic correspondent reports in 2016 a woman will get two million more votes, but lose the election." 

"I heard that report David, and oddly enough a national health insurance scheme will be repealed as well."

"I don't think much of that future."

"Nor do I; good night David."

"Good night, Chet."

July 24, 2017

Senator Wyden & Staff –

Let’s go back in time and make your correspondent a Clinton Administration West Wing weasel when it was time to issue the national health card. Qualifications? A Political Science degree and a few hundred meetings on health and mental health.

Your correspondent still wonders what was so funny at METROPOLITAN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER, 5351 Delmar in St. Louis when a psychologist said, “Could you take back our trays?” Yes, they make much more money than a clinical social worker yet ate the bargain hospital cafeteria lunch. The social work boss wondered what they were doing all day. Please advise on this. The guy in line was: a). Bill Clinton; or b). Our frequently admitted patient who looked like Bill Clinton. They laughed; I went back to work. That same year, I know Air Force One when I see it, so why not delete all news stories of Clinton’s many trips to our community? I believe I said, “What is he doing here again?” (Much like what I said  20 years later about Obama and Los Angeles). Oh, they wanted some MONEY. So do I.

Send your “a” or “b” answer to AdmiralsOnAcid2020@gmail.com

Here is how Hillary & Bill could have crafted the legislation that likely would have failed in 1994, but oddly been passed with George W. as “The Decider.” Veto? Like his daddy and the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), I think he would have had to sign it, then my souvenir pen would have been taken by nutty and/or drug addicted relatives.

First, you mandate that all employers provide a basic health plan, or the CFO & CEO go to jail. (Congressmen are good at arguing over how many employees and/or how much annual revenue to have it required by law).

Secondly, you pour as much money into Medicaid as 50 sovereign state governors request. (Instead, the Navy gets two expensive submarines per year like clockwork. For what? This is assuming you are not firing nukes that could cause “climate” change” that is unarguably real).

Third, you create a pool of MONEY for people who are not working, do not have much income, are not eligible for Medicaid, and are too young to enroll in Medicare. (Like me at the present time). This they could have called the “Medicare Buy-In Pool,” or MBIP. To get in the MBIP, you simply go to the “Welfare Office” that is in every one of USA’s counties and tell them you are under 65, broke, but not disabled. Ah, but this is not a panacea for slackers, because you must pay something! Your friendly caseworker pays the rest. Then you have Medicare, and as Deepak Chopra would say, “Everyone is peaceful and happy.”

Had Bill Hughes been in the Clinton Administration, instead of being told he is being killed by a black male with schizophrenia on a regular basis, I’m sure they would have heard, “Run the numbers again” many times, because the only GOP objection would have been about the cost. I think, because I am allowed to, that the CBO would have found almost everyone insured and the U.S. Treasury not bankrupted.

As corporations tried to wiggle out of the mandate, the FBI could have written a form letter that said, basically, “We hear you are cutting your worker’s hours to get around the law, and you may be headed to jail.” And? “We hear your health provider went bankrupt, so if you don’t find another one, you may be headed to jail.” When corporate lawyers started meeting and planning to evade the law, there could have been dozens of variations of the form letter, because they are very good at screwing people, not so good at running trauma centers, doing heart surgery, keeping grannies comfortable in long-term care facilities, and so forth.

William C. Hughes