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Regarding political non-neutrality, Consider racemic chirality. Two enantiomers, similar compositions, but distinctly opposite dispositions.  Polar segregation demanded,  Mirror-imaged Left/Right-handed; Each hand can shake a fist or point a gun,  but cannot shake the other one.  A balance of Left-Right rapacity  Inversely correlated to valence capacity.  Light viewed as dextrorotary or levorotary with immutable devotion of a votary, Polar vision of light spun can't be unspun without chiral bonding point undone. The ties that bind these enantiomers are frayed and old,  The chiral centre cannot hold... Even absent electromagnetic repulsion there's mutual pseudo-scientific revulsion... Ill-matched, better off detached, The Union cannot hold. (Who calls these observations sardonic but not isomeric may still concede them as ironic while not ferric).
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'Insurance' is a financial derivative contract, a call option. Call option contracts convey the right but not the obligation to purchase the underlying at the stated strike price prior to the expiration date. Typically, calls must describe underlying and strike price with great specificity (for example: 100 shares of NVDA at $180 by 3rd Friday in December 2025). Then, buyer would need to pay for the underlying at the time the option is exercised. There is always a premium for calls, because they have value, they convey a right. Who collects the premium? The seller of that right--the call option seller. Health 'insurance" seems to be a call option without a specifically described underlying, and undisclosed strike prices. And, the entity collecting the premium has zero ability to deliver the underlying...they are monetizing promises of future performance of non-obligated third parties. Why don't actual licensed med-pros sell their own options, collect their own premiums? Not necessarily very complicated.
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Personal Injury To solve the current health care crisis, And obviate unconscionable insurance prices, We should All get requisite medical degrees, And minister, alone, To our own Maladies. This may present a quandary, To the Juris Doc., M.D., What will the Legal remedy be, For a literal personal injury?
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Joe The Patient (Informed Consent)  I went to obtain an informed consent, And inform the patient what that meant, I spent the next several moments explaining Concepts I'd learned over eight years of training. Now, Patient Joe was frugal, didn't live beyond his means, And was dead-set on keeping his own body free of liens, Joe said fine, he'd be glad to sign,  if i told him what the procedure would cost. Then I knew in my heart I was lost. I can go on and on on stents until my face turns cyanotic, Assure him we treat flatlines like they're merely asymptotic, But billing codes and DRGs are topics Gordian-knot-ic. Said I to Joe, I do not know, but if I knew I couldn't say,  because third party payers insist it be that way. Joe asks '"how can he give informed consent if he hasn't been informed of price?" And I answered, who knows, but sign it or leave here 'against medical advice '. Patient Joe starts talking lawsuits, then he stops and says "aw shucks.  Lets get this done, what do you say, how's cash, five hundred bucks?" I drew on all my experience and training and ethics and...and... (...meet me in the alley out back at nine. Here's cefazolin and some betadine).
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