I pay my insurance company protection money
Funny. I wonder what other ordinary transactions could be productively and imaginatively re-imagined as sordid criminal activity?
Perfidy
... the antidote for civilization
Funny. I wonder what other ordinary transactions could be productively and imaginatively re-imagined as sordid criminal activity?
Bram
I’m a business geek so I look at things this way. I always want to be somebody’s profit – not just a cost. As long as I’m making them a profit and getting what I want, everybody is happy.
With private insurance, I am a little profit center of theirs. It is in their best interest to keep me alive and happy so I will make them a profit for many years to come. If I do get sick or hurt, they might have a bad year with me, but they can fix me up so future profits will wipe out that bad year. We both have the same goal – keep Bram alive and happy!
With government coverage, I’m a cost center. It is in their best interest to discourage me from ever seeking treatment – bureaucratic red tape and piss-poor slow service should do the trick. The sooner I die, the better. (Unless I am paying tax on an enormous income without saving anything for them to seize upon my death) Here we have radically different goals and nobody is going to be happy.
GeekLethal
“… what other ordinary transactions could be re-imagined as sordid criminal activity?”
Quite a few, unless you marry the whore.