The Big Bang Theory of Health Care Since 1967

Hold on to your hat: it all comes together now. Looking at events in our nation ' s capital, in a strange fever dream, The Big Bang Theory just came to me. No, call it the Big Fecal-Bang Theory, as I read about how our national leadership proceeds from one inanity to the next.But when it comes to health care, and wiping out the safety net using false premises, inanity kills. So this is worth writing. But to see how it all ties together, we have to go back over half a century.Where else can you read about the hidden connections between Hollywood, health insurance in the US of A, Really Bad Tax Cuts, Wisconsin cheese-eaters, opiate addiction and Really Bad Logic?We will conclude with the antics over the past year of Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin in the annals of health care. But to pull it together we have to back to just over fifty years ago. Take a walk back to 1967.That year two events occurred involving two major characters of the day. Hollywood!The first was the ascent of an actor named Ronald Reagan, perhaps our first media-celebrity politician, to his first term as California governor. Some time later, eyeing higher office, he was insisting government-is-the-problem-not-the-solution. A mantra carried through ever-bigger megaphones until we arrived at the present day s-house.California, of course, as a whole is now far less likely to throw up right wing politicians onto the national stage. (Rep. Issa is leaving it as we speak.) But our great expanse of red fly-ove...
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