Paragraph Won:Among most, though certainly not all, informed citizens (both sworn and natural born), of the United States of America, it is not widely known that theirs is the only wealthy (although some would argue not lately), industrialized country that has not enacted a form of nationalized health insurance intended to provide basic forms of necessary care for all inhabitants who are in need; and there is a question when, if ever, it will occur as there are many powerful players palavering painfully and persistently including those with existing health conditions, older people, insurance companies, small businesses, workers, drug companies, big businesses, hospitals and doctors… all of whom have been jockeying for influential positions and clashing in demands to shape the system since at least the 1970’s and likely earlier because they all know that England enacted it in the 1940’s over the objections of those who argued health care is not a right but something to be earned along with one’s daily bread that has been artfully kneaded, patted and baked into brown perfection that can only be enhanced by a large patty of butter and perhaps a little strawberry jam accompanied by an ice cold glass of milk.
Paragraph Too:
Listen to me... Universal Health Insurance will never happen!
Credits:
Avedis Donabedian - health care quality assurance guru for inspiring the glaring absence of a period until the end of Paragraph Won. I was forced to study the Big A in grad school and stumbled on a 71 word sentence he wrote that was totally beyond my comprehension. There are almost 200 words in Paragraph (sentence) Won. Top that Big A!
Ayn Rand - who refused to begin new paragraphs for the common man's enlightenment. Instead, she pushed the envelope, writing page after page after page in long hand without beginning anew. She must have been trying to conserve paper... and trying to drive her typist nuts!
My college professors - who unanimously agreed that the more complex the thought, the more run on the sentence, the smaller the font and the more obscure the writing, the better to make all their sleazy students suffer for having more fun at the bars than they.
1 comment:
I want to enter this response I received via email - with permission of course:
Good blog item. Now on similar note. I've been pondering writing a letter to former Gov. of Kansas, now the HHS Sec: Kathleen Sebelius, re: Health Care issues and "my" prescription for what needs to be done. They can talk all they want about universal health care, but they need to clean up many things first, such as lobby by the drug companies in DC, the barrage of ads hyping meds that the public, in turn, goes to their doc and demands a script, the continuing increase in Medicare and Medicaid fraud, and last but not least all the "fricken" ads in the media about litigation, and the unbelievable premiums that docs now pay as a result. And oh yeah, how about the limits on school enrollment for nurses, and the lack of PCMs.......and finally, why should the public pay premium increases so that a woman/man can get vanity surgery?
Don't know if you recently saw a great quote by Margaret Thatcher....who I truly respect. "To Cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches."
As one General said when she permitted the launch of the aircraft from the UK to bomb Libya......."she had balls!"
(From old pal, Bill - thank you for your comments!)
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