Medicare is My Fave

One of my favorite things that Medicare does is, if you're patient comes to you from a skilled nursing facility, you have to determine...oh, nevermind, it's too

Should we really shoot for living forever? Or even 100? It's damn expensive to live that long. And if you're living that long with Medicare, you're doing it on the tax payers' dime. That doesn't seem American to me (let's not talk about Medicaid right now).

Don't get me wrong, I love it when my tax dollars go toward opening up highway 13 to four lanes all the way to Springfield. I even enjoy paying for state dinners at the white house when the queen comes to visit. But should we subsidize dotage? I say no thanks.

Whoa, I think I just solved the healthcare crisis-stop providing healthcare to anyone that has a disease that could potentially be their last. (Doc, can we call it common cold and not pancreatic cancer?)

Seriously though, it costs a lot of money to stay alive when you're sick, and that money has to come from somewhere. I guess the queen will have to get used to picnics on the mall.