It's the year 2013 and we have discovered how to send messages back through time via a nifty new iphone app but we still can't figure out how to get people health insurance in this country. If I've timed this whole thing right then you should be reading this soon after the Health Care Reform moves into the Senate. The current version of the bill, current meaning 2009, is a big sloppy wet dream for the insurance companies and it only gets worse from here on out. The public option is totally stripped and the mandate that people who cannot afford insurance purchase a private plan or face a fine stays in with a vengeance. Yes, the insurance companies are no longer able to refuse coverage based on preexisting conditions but premiums have gone through the roof to compensate. Plans are so expensive that the government's subsidies to help those who cannot afford insurance have done little more than help increase the profits of BlueCignEta, oh yeah I forgot to mention that in the future all health insurance is provided by one giant corporation which is a subsidiary of Halliburton which is now owned by Wal-Mart. Sound bad? You haven't heard anything yet. Voters in 2012 were so frustrated with Obama and the rest of the Democrats for bungling healthcare that they elected Sara Palin. In her campaign Palin promised to do away with Obamacare but once everything went to effect in early 2013 and she realized what a boon it was for the insurance industry she kept it! And it was Vice President Michelle Bachmann who came up with the idea of making it a federal crime to go uninsured. So now the prison population is overflowing, which is good for Wal-Mart since they own all the prisons, and poverty is at an all time high. We're also in a full fledged war with, no not Iran, Canada! It's a really long story that I can't get into now but it all started with the bacon shortage of 2011 and then things got really out of hand.
So as you can see things are really bad. But there is hope. With the help of my rag tag band of friends here in the future we've managed to trace everything back to the one moment in time when everything turned sour and it's right now. This very moment as you read this our elected leaders are putting the finishing touches on the future of our health care system and if you want to avoid the dystopian society that I currently live in you have to let them know you are not ok with the way things are going. First of all things are taking too long. We need health care reform now, not in 2013, now! We managed to bail out the banks in a weekend I think we can in act at least some kind of meaningful healthcare reform in less than four years. Secondly, the provision to fine people who cannot afford healthcare is asinine and should be removed. Lastly, we need a public option, which would cancel out the formerly mentioned fines. So tell it to your elected leaders, tell it to your friends, tell it to your family and anyone else who will listen or doesn't want to listen and save the future! And for God's sake please start conserving your bacon!
