****Re: ot: Fourth Amendment... gone forever?

[Joshua Zeidner]

On 2/13/08, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> But you only needed to see the moment where John Erlichtman and Richard
> Nixon are discussing the crook in California (Kaiser) discussing his new
> health care delivery system called HMO's and the next day, President
> Nixon advocating Congressional changes (which they did and he signed) in
> the movie Sicko to realize how they have continually played us for
> chumps.

  That part of the movie was by far the most convincing.  I don't
doubt that HMOs conspire to shaft the consumers, and that Kaiser
Permanente is perhaps one of the worst of the bunch.  Kaiser perhaps
lies at the very heart of Everything That Is Wrong With
California(tm).  Their company propaganda includes all this garbage
about helping miners with their health problems at the turn of the
century.  But HMOs are in a sense a small 'socialized medical system'.
 What the socialized healthcare plan suggests is creating ONE HMO that
we are forced to opt into through tax base.  Secondly the entire
concept of HMO means no personal accountability for health, which
ultimately creates monstrous costs.

  -jmz