Health Care and Cable-TV

We really are a poor excuse for a civilized society. For a long time I had no clue how somebody could get all frothed up about making sure that their fellow citizens have a reasonable access to health care. And then it hit me: these people see health care as a scarce commodity and they don't want to risk losing their current level of access to the pie. In other words, they are purely selfish.

To which I say "screw 'em". We are all in this thing together, so we should all have access to health care. If giving the 40 million of us who don't have minimum insurance access at that level means that I have to wait a little longer for non-emergency care, then so be it.  Frankly, I think the trend over the past 30+ years vis-a-vis income distribution in this country needs to be reversed. The rich have too much and the rest of us are struggling for our share of an ever shrinking pie. The individual wealthier members of our society need to start paying back in for all the benefits they have gleaned from our "freedom". And, while we're at it, the entertainment industry (and that includes professional sports) needs to have their wings trimmed a little also.

Here's something to think about: Cablevision has 24 million subscribers. If the average monthly cable portion of their bill is $30(and I think this is low, but let's be conservative), that means Cablevision is raking in some $720 million per month just for cable-tv services. Now consider that Cablevision, for all its numbers, still does not control even 50% of the market, so the actual amount of money that goes out from subscribers on a monthly basis is actually in the billions. And this does nothing for the advancement of...well, anything other that the wealth flowing to the entertainment sector. Now, I'm not sure how we do this, but my gut tells me that this sector needs to pay the country back for what they have been looting for the past...what? 30 years? Sounds good to me...