The Week ahead

Kadizzles just returned from the nice little laundry the Forest Service provides.  The sweat and dirt of last week is coming off and this week it will be renewed.  Jasper Littlebottom aka Mrs. Kadizzle is busily packing stuff for an upcoming camp out this week.  If it goes as planned Emily who just did a fifty mile bike ride through the mountains, Littlebottom, and Cliff will hike up Deer Creek and camp.  The goal is to get more of the trail into shape.  Only by camping can the distant reaches of the trail be reached. Kadizzle is supposed to haul water into the mountains to a trail crew there.  If that does not materialize then Kadizzle may also go on the camp out.

The volunteers are slowly leaving and the transition to summer is coming.  Warm weather is just a day or two away.  Our sailing friends will come to hike on the weekend.  Some water to get the streams going would be nice.

Perhaps Kadizzle can get up the steam to go to the workout haul. 

How about a little rant?   With so many of our friends being shot to pieces with health issues it is time to think about reforming health care in this country.  At this age you realize most of the health care cost are incurred in the final stages of life.  Recently my sister passed away.  She was not a good steward of her money and her medical bills will be born by society in general.   Think for a moment about the masses of people aging and what it will cost.   It is nothing to rack up a medical bill of one million dollars as you get to the end of the game.  When Mrs. Kadizzle' mother was close to death they wanted her to rent a special mattress for ten thousand dollars.  Because most of us do not have to write a check for our care we really are not concerned, and the medical community, and the insurance mafia run wild.  Who cares?  This brings to mind a time when Erin was hospitalized in Denver.  The staff thought she needed a humidifier in her room.  In they came with a brand new one.  Of course when it was listed on the bill you can be assured the price was jacked up way beyond retail.  On the day Erin was leaving the nurse was unplugging the humidifier.  What are you going to do with that Kadizzle asked.  Throw it away was the answer.  Do you want it?  May as well take it home we paid for it.  The casual way hospitals waste money is insane. 

In a few weeks Kadizzle will got to get a check up.  If it is typical he will go first to a urologist, and then to a cancer specialist.  The first doctor will get all the vitals, and enter them in his computer.  An hour later the second doctor will do exactly the same thing. To make it all worse Kadizzle will fill out the same forms twice, which he has already filled out one hundred times.  Now, any other business in the world would put the information from the first doctor in the computer in a way the second doctor could see it.  But, no that would save time and money, and who cares it is the insurance company paying.  That insurance company also pays the CEO 120 million dollars a year to make things awkward and confusing.

Now for the grand finally.  Gun control works in every modern country, but ours.  Health care works fare better for far less in other countries.  Do we follow their lead?  No,  our legislators have been purchased and paid for by the NRA terrorist and for that matter the health care terrorist.  Remember the death panels?  We have a death panel thanks to the Republicans.  It works this way.  The poor die for lack of insurance, the rich get the best we can give them.  So the Republican death panel is very efficient.  The decision is made automatically based on your wealth.

So while old Kadizzle is in the rant mode, how about one more quick one.  The great Republican tax break.  So the rich got their money and so did the corporations.  What was supposed to happen according to the trustworthy Republicans was that corporations would use the treasure to pay higher wages.  Did it happen?  Hell no.  the corporations gave out a one time bonus.  95% of the tax break was used to buy back stock. This juiced the price of the stock.  Guess who owns large chunks of stock. Of course it is the CEOs.  So now the same CEO that just got a big tax break on his income also just got a big bonus in the price of his stock.  Wow it was win win for the head of Walmart who makes 8,000 per hour.  And the poor old person at the door of Walmart will get enough to buy a membership to Costco.   What a wonderful country where you can rape the stupid by simply promising them guns, and Jesus.