6 thoughts on “Jimmy Kimmel”

  1. Health care isn’t complicated. People making irrational demands are morons.

    Everything has a cost. Of course people want other people to pay the cost. Complicating things raises the cost.

    Conflating care and ‘insurance’ (which isn’t) just makes it worse.

    Kimmel is an idiot. That the media doesn’t unitely correct him makes them idiots as well. Where are the freakin’ adults?

  2. I think that the Libertarian argument that health insurance isn’t how insurance is supposed to work is not a good way to approach this debate.

    What we have is that you or someone on your behalf makes an advanced payment, pays a “retainer” if you will, and you are granted access to the services of a healthcare provider or a network of healthcare providers to treat you for what ails you.

    The question is what is your “network”? Even those fortunate enough to have “good health insurance” through their employer are restricted to some kind of “network”, those healthcare providers that the healthcare plan will reimburse or those providers that will take your plan’s reimbursement in payment. Unless you are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi or say, Jimmy Kimmel, the days of going to see “the best doctor” are long over.

    Wasn’t that part of Mr. Kimmels’ on-air remarks, that he was relieved that even though his newborn son’s peril created him great distress, his son was treated by “the best” surgeon for that condition?

    If you are poor and qualify for Medicaid, your network is those doctors who will accept Medicaid. If you are old and of modest-to-moderate means and qualify for Medicare, your network is those doctors who will accept Medicare. If you qualify for Medicare and sign up for a private “insurance” Medicare Advantage plan, you pay much less out-of-pocket in exchange for accepting a much more restrictive “network.” If you are a military veteran and rely on the V.A. for your healthcare, you get the V.A. as your network, and all that such entails.

    What I see Single Payer doing is making everyone part of the same network. Everyone, Mr. Kimmel. What I see Tom Price’s AHCA do is introduce a higher level of social stratification as to who gets access to which network than what Nancy Pelosi’s ACA appears to be doing.

    Some bloggers from the Deplorablesphere are liking what they see in the AHCA because they regard social stratification as a Good Thing ™. They regard whatever it is that they have in Singapore as what they seek. Harry (as at least one Deplorable affectionately calls him) Lee’s Singapore is more Authoritarian than Libertarian — to use a Dune novel analogy, they implement some form of Herbert’s Faufreluches castes system to assign persons to their “network” to avoid the adverse cross-subsidies in the ACA.

    Many Democrats hate the AHCA, partly for partisan tribal reasons, but strongly because the AHCA seeks to use social stratification as an end to at least cleaning up the mess that is the ACA. In the Democrats’ desired Single Payer system, all animals will have the same healthcare network, but some animals will have more sameness than others.

    Aren’t those the choices we can make, between Marxist-Leninist-Stalinism, where everyone is in the same network lucky to be up to the standards of the V.A., and a select nomenclatura are in a network at the standards of the V.A.? Between that and Mr. Lee’s fascism, where your network is determined by your ability to pay, but everyone is at least assigned to some network?

    1. “Some bloggers from the Deplorablesphere are liking what they see in the AHCA because they regard social stratification as a Good Thing ™.”

      I think you are wrong. They see governmental enforced de-stratification – leveling – as a Very Bad Thing ™ fraught with a myriad of negatives that far outweigh the surface feel-good justification.

        1. Since you cannot list all the web pages nor give us the statistics on how many libertarians think one way and how many deplorables think another etc., just supplying ONE web page is meaningless and so that section of your post is worthless.

          Yes you can say “some bloggers think…” but it’s a pretty worthless statement.

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