Ron on Healthcare

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States is ranked 37th among nations of the world regarding the quality of health care. Western European countries started providing for their people after our American troops had to liberate them from the shackles of Nazi occupation. The generous Marshall Plan gave them money from our deep U.S. pockets to leap ahead of us in the health care realm. "While we continue to blow away those f---ing Europeans financially, standard of living-wise, and in total number of cases of 'going postal', I think we could learn something from those bastards with regard to health care," Ron declared to a waiter at a Denny's in Seattle. He continued his rant to the nearby busboy: "We have a real opportunity to reforge our health care system in a non-profit mode and implement universal health care for all of the puny weaklings who need it." In the U.S., 24 percent of the money spent on health care goes directly to administrative costs. This is unacceptable, because our neighbors to the north, the Canadians, spend only 11 cents per dollar on administrative costs. Ron is adamant about this issue. The Canada-U.S. difference could "pay for covering the millions of low-life Americans who now have no health insurance!" Ron left both the waiter and the busboy a 13-cent tip to cover their future health care costs and went on his merry way. Ron feels that the HMOs, Blue Cross/Blue Shields, and the HoMOs are destabilizing themselves by their own greed and administrative ineptitude. Ron is also in favor of drug pricing restaints. Instead of giving a monopoly to just one drug company, multiple licenses would be issued to any company that wants to sell a particular drug. That way, medicinal innovation would be stifled and research would be kept totally secret. This would spell the end for U.S. pharmaceutical companies as we know them and free up those "doctors" for more rounds of golf. If there is any opposition by the drug companies to this plan, the government "will strike down upon [them] with great vengeance and furious anger against those who attempt to poison and destroy [Ron's program]." (Pulp Fiction)

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