Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for January 05, 2023

Not much has changed since then.

Everything within 94 miles of Des Moines appears to be easy to get to by car. Someone with access to a light plane might save time by flying between small airports if there’s ground transportation at both ends.

He should try going to Des Moines with a layover in Atlanta. Might be cheaper.

This is what has happened to health care and was accelerated under Obamacare. Big insurance companies getting subsidies from the Federal government and special protection from spending that money on patients. They then use that power to consolidate and red tape and prices go up and patient service goes down. The same thing has happened to Hospitals as they consolidate smaller hospitals into giant monopolistic entities. The doctors then get bought out by the hospitals and insurance companies and no longer serve the patient directly. The small independent medical practice is driven out of business. Patients suffer lower quality care at higher cost with less selection. Care that is not individualized, but driven by service of the “population” and designed for maximum revenue to the system. The government sets the rules, holds the purse strings and devastates once great health care system.

Opus is calling the airline- Why is HIS phone ringing in the first panel?

“Tofu Face” bwahahaha

Take a bus

Try Southwest.

stay home

Break up the airlines.

Break up Ticketmaster.

Break up Big Telecom.

Break up the consolidated Healthcare Complex.

Break up the grocery store monopolies.

Break up the eyeglass cartel.

And it goes on and on.

The legislation exists, but no Administration—Republican or Democrat—has enforced it.

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 (26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1–7)

Checking your luggage is extra. Checking your luggage to your destination is even more.

Know why covid is better than Southwest Airlines? It’s airborne.

NOOO! Don’t give in, Opus! It only validates their piracy.

(It’s kinda like choosing a Speaker of the House….)

I never realized that Bloom County is in Iowa. Kinda makes sense I guess.

How did she know he had a banana nose?

Just a reminder that a free market and a competitive market aren’t the same thing.