Fuck Insurance (Especially health insurance).

All insurance is a scam. Health Insurance is a fucking crime.
You have insurance, you think, ‘Cool I’m covered’. But nope…you still have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars. How is that fair?

Insurance should be fucking insurance. I get sick. I’m insured. Insurance fucking pays, not me. It’s not really insurance if they get you coming and going. You pay all that money up front…every month…hundreds of dollars, maybe thousands per year. Sometimes they take it right out of your paycheck, before you ever see it.

Then you get sick. You give em the card, cross your fingers and pray. Deductible here. CoPay there. Deny this. Pro-rated that. You get out of the hospital, and before your recovery is even complete, they start coming: A bill from this doctor you don’t remember. A charge for this test and that screening. You haven’t even gotten back to work, and you’re buried in red ink.

What the fuck people. How is THIS the ‘best’ healthcare? If they save your life and then take your house to cover the cost…and that’s if you HAVE insurance. If you don’t, good luck even getting the services you need. When they know they aren’t getting paid, they somehow manage to do the barest minimum. Imagine that. For-Profit Hospitals putting profits above the best healthcare for all. WhoDaThunk?

Fuck Capitalism. Services like healthcare, police, fire, EMS, ambulance, military, prisons, education. These should NEVER be privatized. Everyone has the right to the best services we can provide when it comes to health and safety. People shouldn’t have to worry about paying the bills for these services. It should be included in our taxes, even if they are a little higher.

Separate but equal doesn’t work any more in healthcare than it does in education. Haves and have-nots alike should be protected from harm as citizens of an advanced and equitable society. Exploitation and greed have no place competing with the Hippocratic Oath for healthcare dollars. Those dollars are best spent on research, not drug commercials, dividends and CEO salaries.

The only way you do that is to get rid of the insurance companies and big pharma. Our universities, properly funded by tax dollars, could be an amazing core of medical research and medicine development…for the good of ALL, not just the shareholders and board of directors. No more price gouging on critical medicines. No more rationing of new medical treatments to the well-to-do and connected.

That’s what socialized medicine could be. It doesn’t have to be a poorly designed and inequitable system. There are plenty of examples of socialized medicine around the world that are models for a better standard of care than ours.

Healthcare is a human right, in a society that has advanced to the point where we CAN CHOOSE between profit and doing the right thing.

Do we really want to be THAT country? The one that chooses profits? Because WE have a choice. ~jg

New York writer and musician, Jamie Gray

Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.

Get Outta My Head! | Jamie Gray – March 23, 2018 at 12:49PM

God help us…#PresidentBoneSpurs is holding a news conference in a few minutes.
What is he planning to completely FUBAR now? They’re all ears on Wall Street… #tradewars #marketcrash?
Me…I’m just wondering who he’ll piss off NEXT.

#gomh #JustFuckingSaying

Get Outta My Head! | Jamie Gray – March 21, 2018 at 05:48PM

#WhatIF ALL of America’s schools had all the money and resources they needed for our children to succeed, and the #Pentagon had to hold fundraisers to build more F-35s?
People…THAT’S how it’s supposed to be in democratic society #EndlessWars & #ArmsDeals are unacceptable.

#gomh #JustFuckingSaying

Get Outta My Head! | Jamie Gray – March 20, 2018 at 07:10PM

Are you fed up yet?
It’s not as if you can actually DO anything about it. Or can you?
#Vote in November.
#SpeakOut NOW
#RESIST Always.

#gomh #JustFuckingSaying

Get Outta My Head! | Jamie Gray – March 12, 2018 at 01:29PM

Bad presidents. We’ve had some. While both parties are guilty of poor presidents past, #GOP has truly outdone themselves this time, their own leaders even horrified by #Trump unpresidential and unconstitutional behavior. THAT says SHITLOADS in these way partisan times.
#gomh #JustFuckingSaying

Get Outta My Head! | Jamie Gray – March 11, 2018 at 06:11PM

I publish lots of links to articles, & I even read SOME of them. It’s usually the headline itself that sets me off on a rant, and I need get shit off my chest…you feel me?
So I don’t care if you read those articles. It’s all about what I’M SAYING. Feel free to agree.

#gomh #JustFuckingSaying

Get Outta My Head! | Jamie Gray – March 09, 2018 at 07:15PM

Hello over there!
So, I just discovered via the awesome stats on #Blogger that lots of you are from over the pond… #Shoutouts : #UK #England #France #woot
Thanks! UK & EU readers for taking the time to consume my rants & ruminations
You’re all kinds of awesome!
;~jg

#gomh #JustFuckingSaying