And speaking of cynical medical ploys, about 6 months ago, the NYT wrote a series or maybe 2 articles on cynical Insurance ploys

where affable and trust worthy looking people call on phone or in person to elderly people, implying or outright pretending they are ***From Medicare*** which is just crap, they are from Insurance companies that the Bush administration has given carte blanche to bilk and loot Medicare.

So they get a payment of upfront several thousand dollars to so called enroll people who are Medicare eligible in their creepy and ugly plans, which require all manner of co pays and horrendous crap.

Then the elderly person who doesnt know all this either signs on, or fails to refuse adamantly enough, and gets signed on in some way, anyway.

Then they know nothing about this horrendous change till they have a medical procedure or actually fall ill, then they find out, either they cant see their regular doctor, or have to travel 10s to 100s of miles to get to a plan doctor, or they have horrendous co pays or they are just plain not covered for the condition.

By the time it is too late and many are too sick to do anything about it and they are not allowed to go back to regular Medicare till the end of one year and by then, the company has bilked the USA by getting its own money upfront, but not paying out for the sick person.

Talk about total bamboozle, this is what they mean by making Medicare more efficient, it is more efficient at transferring wealth from US public to private bamboozlers, whereas the elderly get the short shrift.

That's how it looks.

Again, I feel pretty sure Katie Couric will be giving lap dances and cheek nuzzles to the Bush people and insurers, Gibson will be stuffy but ineffective, and Staphylococcus will be an A Grade suck up and enabler.

That looney comedienne chick Staphylococcus is married to is just as bad BTW and she is totally adulative of him and his upholding of Big Bidness and Republican administrations, no sense that the country is all about keeping people happy, safe and emotionally, financially and physically secure, none at all.

That stupid Alexandria who prolly lost her neurons while turning skinny has no idea that it is media's job to ensure Big Bidness plays by rules and Big Government serves the interests and well being of every person, not just persons like her suck up, enabling ass of a husband.

That's all.

Another damn pity.