RE: Kaiser Family Foundation – The Access Project – September 2009
Consumers’ Experience in Massachusetts: Lessons for National Health Reform
By Carol Pryor and Andrew Cohen (.pdf)
COMMENT: Don McCanne – More Lessons from Massachusetts
Many have recommended that we use the Massachusetts model as the basis for national health reform. Basically, that is what Congress is doing. If you read this full report to see what the authors believe are the lessons for national reform, you will see that they recommend yet another half dozen or so patches to be applied to this system with a failing financing infrastructure – failing because it began as a patched together system in the first place.
Lyrics:
You’re paying for prisons.
You’re paying for war.
You’re paying for lobotomies.
You’re paying for law.
You’re paying for their order.
You’re paying for their murder.
Paying for your ticket
To watch the farce.
Knowing you’ve made your contribution
To the system’s fucked solution,
To their political pollution.
No chance of revolution.
No chance of change.
You’ve got no range.
Don’t just take it.
Don’t take their shit.
Don’t play their game.
Don’t take their blame.
USE YOUR OWN HEAD.
Your turn instead.
It’s not apologise. It’s not economise.
It’s not make do. It’s not pull through.
It’s not take it. It’s not make it.
It’s not just you. It’s not madmen.
It’s not difficult. It’s not behave.
It’s not, oh well, just this once.
It’s fucking impossible.
It’s fucking unbearable.
It’s fucking stupid.
FUCKING STUPID.