Two-time Pulitzer finalist Marshall Ramsey is the editorial cartoonist for The Clarion-Ledger. His cartoons have appeared in USA Today, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times and on his Mother's refrigerator. It is also rumored that his work has appeared frequently in the bathrooms of several prominent local politicians.
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MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago
Since the U.S. is in the grip of the flu I thought it might jump to Europe and Germany next so I got a shot this morning. I called a doctor, showed my Universal Health Care ID card, got the shot and went home without paying a dime. And here is why “socialized medicine” of this kind works…
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Imagine you make $15 an hour. That’s $600 a week. If you get the flu your employer has to continue to pay your wages. If he – via the (semi-nonprofit, well regulated German) HMO – provides you with the shot he will not lose that money. If the HMO buys enough shots they come down from $40 to $10 or so. People are healthy, happy and the economy is doing great (as witnessed by comparing growth in Germany to the rest of the Euro-zone).
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It’s an INVESTMENT. It pays off for the employer. I worked in companies like Commerzbank that had their own immunization drives, the doctors basically went through the house shouting “FLU-SHOTS! FLU-SHUTS! WHO HASN’T HAD HIS FLU-SHOT YET? FREE FLU-SHOTS!”. The only thing missing was the guy shaking a bell :-)
DrCanuck said, 4 months ago
^ Americans will always choose to pay a dollar to fix something today that they could have prevented with a dime yesterday.
(Or, as some call it, “lurching from crisis to crisis.”)
sSTttrugglePup said, 4 months ago
“I got an epidemic in my pants and it does a modern dance…”