Health Care Debate Flowchart

The best minds in America are busy trying to figure out a reason not to reform health care that might stick. With the dual goals of rousing the rabble and applying any veneer of excuses over abject greed, many many reasons have been floated not to take the profit motive out of the system - or at least to provide it with some competition.

If you find yourself debating health care reform, you might like to use this map, to figure out your current location, and your possible options:

Disclaimer: This is a snapshot of the verbiage of the debate in progress - none of it is fact-checked. The fine website http://lmgtfy.com/ will help you forward friendly links to any of this information, to your acquaintances whose InformationAge? skills are lagging.

Suggestions to add nodes and links are welcome, so long as they are fair and balanced, and GraphViz likes them. I also left out some of the more distasteful elements of the debate, because they are only hate-speech applied on top of "France is socialist", and "the Constitution does not say HC is a right".

Happy arguing! --PhlIp


As someone who has had to use the healthcare system extensively (many family members too) and I have a daughter soon to be a licensed physician, the problem and solution are simple. Healthcare needs to be based around these few things:

Once again, the main problem is corporations, as corporations have no human anything, and all run like the mob. Healthcare should be limited to those that get their high from helping others, instead of making absurd profits, and this includes the providers and manufacturers of supplies and equipment. Healthcare should be humanitarian, and not about profiteering.

That rebutts the "profit is the only way to streamline the system" argument, and the "we can't afford to cover everyone argument".

Compassion is always cheaper than profiteering!

Preventative Health Care is always cheaper than its alternatives!

Programmers like Single Payer because we RefactorMercilessly to create the smallest algorithm implementation


Here's another attempt (actually it's the "France is near bankruptcy" attack):

Republicans charge that Obama's plans are too expensive in the face of skyrocketing budget deficits.

Which. They. Caused.

What will be the next unbelievable absurdity in this incredible story? We are all waiting!

Irony is spinning in its grave


("taxation is income redistribution", in honey tongued letters, snipped. Sorry! "Render unto Caesar... etc.!";)


And never forget who heated the insipid "Birther" movement up just before the HC debate started...


CategoryRant (and a phun one at that)


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