Tomorrow at 8:00 pm I plan to broadcast the second most important plank of my campaign - Health Care Alternative Options Act – HCAOP. So why am I here listening to rich people complain about being fined $250 for not picking up sidewalk dog shit from their $4000 mongrels?
As president I intend to present a bill to void The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare. My objective is to make healthcare compulsory, provided mainly by the public sector with control and funding derives from the federal government. Davis Esterbrook and Bill Upton from Greyhawk’s staff are designing the hardcore structuring of HCAOP. Davis is on six-month sabbatical from Brooke Army Medical Center and is with me in Dallas, while Bill remains in residence at GPC in Norwood, MA. The final draft is delivered to me just before we are about the leave, which created further annoyance by Jessamine. She nagged all night about being distant and my inability to be cordial with her friends. Even her father is a prick, keeps remaining me of the money he’s spending. His daughter is pushing the buttons to have him spend like a whorehouse junky. Personally, I don’t need the Hollywood glitz and the rolling commercials on the major networks. Good old fashion recognition allows by ideas to be aired, while the feedback makes the run credible. But without the old man, especially being on the ballot in every state, my campaign would have had a short life. Indeed, big money opens doors. It’s true what he said – Money talks, bullish walks!
Jessamine is pissing in my left ear; the right side of my brain is absorbing the talking points of tomorrow’s telecast.
Health Care Alternative Option Act – HCAOP is a complete departure how medical services are administered. Our approach provides compulsory health care and completely integrated in 10 years.
The primary element is the doctors’ corp.
Fifty USA Universities will be created and offer a three-year undergraduate degree program and four years medical school curriculum. All U.S. citizen are eligible by passing an entrance examination and entering into a ‘Contract of Performance”. Upon qualifying the individual is provided with a free education, including housing, living expense and training aids. At the end of the six-year period the individual who successful complete the tenure, he/she is assigned to one of 10,000 sanctioned hospitals (USA Medical Hospital – USAMH) with a total capacity of two million staffed beds. Upon completing residency training, the intern doctor obtains an eligibility license to practice medical, but the license is only valid in a USAMH. If an individual elects to be a private doctor not affiliated with USAMH, he/she must complete fifteen years of residence before fulfilling the Contract of Performance obligations.
Conversely, today’s future doctors are required to complete a 4-year undergraduate degree program, spend four years in medical school and then complete 3 to 7 years of residency training before obtaining an eligibility license to practice medical. Therefore, an individual is required to devote 11 to 15 years to be allowed to treat a medical patience. According to an American Medical Association survey, the average cost of medical school is $175,000, which doesn’t cover the cost of the undergraduate degree, rooms and board, training materials, fees and tuition at $55,000 annually. Thus, the cost is $395,000 plus $75,000 of extraneous costs associated with becoming a doctor. For $470,000 the want-to-be-doctor still must complete 3 to 7 years of residency training before obtaining an eligibility license to practice medicine.
By 1:30 am, I’m aboard a private jet to DC with Bob, Vaughn and Syd. At the last minute Jessamine passes on the trip, exercising her prerogative of being a pain in the ass. Our close bounding has faded into a bearable existence. The White House is her marker and I’m merely the carrier pigeon. The destination is the National Press Club for 9:30 am production run-through for scheduled airing at 8:00 pm that evening. I’m to give a 45-minute presentation with charts and assorted posters. At intervals in the staging, questions will be flashed on the screen with a voiceover on a specific question related to the topic already presented. The approach makes sense, but I never did it for. After a few posting I am able to carry the speech without losing the flow of my prepared content.
At length I said, “ The cost for the entire effort to become at doctor without a specialty is over one million dollars.
High cost of education to be a doctor is the single reason why doctor expenses for treatment are so high.”
“Today, we have nationwide shortage of 14,000 doctors in all specialties. By 2015 it is predicted to hit 75,000 and 200,000 by 2025. At present, 954,000 physicians practice in the United States of which 15% will retire in ten years. As our population ages, the doctor shortage will be a big issue than funding healthcare. If not addressed now, along with the programs outline under my Health Care Alternative Option Act – HCAOP, we face catastrophic damage to the health of our citizens.”
“Let’s look at ObamaCare passed by Congress on March 21, 2010. Obamanation lied to the America people about its cost, manipulated the standard 10-year cost projection and cost $1 trillion - $939 billion to be exact as the Congressional Budget Office – CBO projects. Now the rigged costless years 2010 and 2011 are history, the true 10-year price tag is a killer. From 2013 to 2022, the CBO reports the costs of ObamaCare is $1.75 trillion, double the phony original number.
“Wait, it gets worse. Annual gross costs after 2021 are more than $500 million each year until forever. We cannot go down this road. An alternative strategy must be in place within two years or our country will not survive as we know it today.”
“Health Care Alternative Option Act – HCAOP . The total cost in 10 years is $900 billion, an amount less than the Federal Reserve and Congress gave away in less than five hours to bailout the big banks and save Wall Street.”
“I’m only a simple American with only one object. I want our country to survive the next 100 years for the benefit of my future children and their children and yours, and theirs, theirs and theirs. No hidden agenda, no fake promises, but determination to do the right thing.
“I don’t care if you vote someone else. America’s greatness resides in the hearts and minds of the people who can rise above the noise and search for the truth. Health Care Alternative Option Act is the best solution to provide universal healthcare and have it effective administrated and funded.”
By 12:15 pm we had in the can and about to leave the studio when Benny Arnold shows. While Armistaed and Allbright attend to campaign business, Halley remains behind.
“Like what you’re selling.”
“So, what’s up? Benny, this is my campaign treasurer, Bob Halley.”
“Can we talk alone?”
“Said anything, Bob is one of us.”
Arnold shows a nervous laugh.
“Benny is an Army buddy from As-fucking-ghanistan. Saw a lot of bullshit together.”
“I need to speak to you privately, it’s … important.”
“Don’t mind him Bob, he’s now CIA and conditioned to be an asshole. I said, if you want to talk, let’s hear it or get lost. You gave me bullshit info on Na’imah and I’m not playin’ anymore. So if you got noise, blow it!”
Arnold stares at me with his cold blue eyes. His skinny frame and towhead red hair makes him look like a cartoon character. Finally he said, “I want you to meet Ted Grant, he’s chief liaison on the Afghanistan desk.”
“No good! If your Grant wants to talk have him call me? I’ll be in Philly tonight and Boston on Thursday, all day.”
“Why not now?”
“Bob go talk to him. I need time to work on the Federal Reserve speech.”
“No you!”
Arnold takes a firm hold of my arm.
“Are you fuckin’ kidding? Look punk, tell Grant, he wants to talk have him show. Let go, or I’ll slap you down.”
Arnold pulls back and walks away.
As they watch him disappear into the elevator, Halley said, “I think you should have gone. This guy …”
“No. I know what they want. Hints to dro
p the bid.”
“What? Call off …”
“Yep, that’s the score. They don’t want me rocking the boat.”
“Did you tell Security?”
“No. You’re the first to know.”
“You need to get Syd in the loop, maybe Philbert. Bobby Kennedy got killed for less.”