Yet, on the first page, there is “cost sharing” mentioned. Annually, an individual has to ante up $5K & a family, $10K, towards healthcare costs for anything not covered under wellness care. The chronic illness sufferers on the board ignored my pointing that out & providing the link to the bill. But it means what it says: a $5K deductible for one person, $10K for a family, before you get any “free” healthcare. That’s the same deductible – oops, cost sharing – that was in the so-called health insurance offered to managers of MacDonald’s restaurants – a deductible for which politicians raised h-e-double hockey sticks when whipping up a frenzy aimed at trying to get socialized medicine in the US.

So, why again is this high level deductible – oops, cost sharing – OK for Obamacare but a travesty for MacDonald’s to do?

Thankfully, by now that particular bill is gone – but in its place is a kluge of 4 sucky Senate bills – a mess that has so many pages it stands about 10 inches tall lying on a table. Makes “War & Peace” look like a brochure.

And people, including our elected representatives, are more likely to read “War & Peace” than they are to wade through a massive amount of political doublespeak that looks like a paper version of a Joe Biden filibuster. It’ll be so internally inconsistent that no one will be able to figure it out.

In other words, it makes the tax code look simple to understand.

They’ll vote it in if we don’t fight it, because their constituents want “something done about healthcare.” It’ll cost so much they’ll have to ration no matter what version gets passed; the bureaucratic doublespeak alone will require Special High Intensity Training (read the acronym, please).

There are all these undesirables out there who can’t seem to get thin, quit smoking, stop drinking, or quit drugging. We can start with them, moving on to the 53% of the population with chronic illnesses. From there, you have a choice of knocking off people with incurable illnesses & people who need care (intellectually challenged, psychologically unstable), perhaps even prisoners – where it’ll also reduce prison overcrowding. Decimate the population, omit anyone with diseases, until you have just a few healthy people left. Cuts costs, really quickly. No more medical supply places, gimps on mobility aids or in wheelchairs (manual or power), “retards” or fat people to look at, just beautiful people.

It may be tongue in cheek now, but I wonder if it will end up being prophecy.