The Noise : Rock Around Boston. - OUR EYES ON YOU: Dec 2009

Issue 303/ July/August 2010

HEALTH CARE

Rita: What’s the most common question asked? Lolita: Do you want to come home with me? Rita: No. It’s “How ya doin’?” Lolita: I’m fine. How are you? Rita: My point is that the most common question is about the health of a person. Lolita: Okay, I’m a little sniffily. Rita: Let’s ask if people have any thoughts about healthcare. After all it is currently one of the most discussed topic in Washington DC right now. Lolita: Oh, did the swine flu break out big down there? Rita: Just get people’s opinions about health care. Lolita: Okay, but doesn’t everyone want to be healthy? Okay, I’ll ask the question. Evan, do you have any thoughts about health care? EVAN GAVRY (Three Day Threshold): I could sure use some! *** MICHAEL EPSTEIN (the Motion Sick/ Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling): I can’t even fathom why there are debates on whether or not health care should be made available to everyone. That should just be an accepted fact. The discussion and debates should be about how to make that happen. I’d even be willing to accept a 10-year implementation plan. *** DICK TATE (The Middle East/ Rocksteady Super Soul Revue): Yes I do! Birth control in the drinking water, take a pill to GET pregnant. *** CHUCK U. ROSINA (WMBR/WMFO): Thoughts about health care? If you don’t need it, the system works fine. All the Nay-sayers about single payer complain about government intervention between patient and doctor. But what do we have now? For-profit-insurance-companies intervening between doctor and patient. I’ll take the government over that any time. Let’s go Canadian style! *** WAYNE VIENS (Crown Electric Co./Valdez the Sinner): I think it’s fine if the government wants to help people who need health care, but I certainly don’t want them to tell me what, how, and where, to get mine, and to force me to get it from, of all places, our government. Just look at the VA. What a mess—and besides, it already seems so confusing. Just imagine when they get ahold of it. Sad to say, and it sure isn’t gonna be less expensive. *** JASON DUGUAY (Project Sound): When I think back at all the crap I learned in high school it’s a wonder that I can think at all. Though my lack of understanding hasn’t hurt me none, I can read the writing on the wall. *** TIM MUNGENAST (Tim Mungenast & His Preexisting Conditions): I was going to talk about the ’66 Marshall Super 100 I wanted for Christmas, but the name of my band behooves me to pass along a tip about healthcare: former Cigna VP Wendell Potter told Congress that the industry is “beholden to Wall Street,” and added, “I know from personal experience that members of Congress and the public have good reason to question the honesty and trustworthiness of the insurance industry.” What will happen to all that town hall rage when those trusting conservative dupes finally realize they’ve been played like violins? Lolita: I get it—you want a violin to play through the ’66 Marshall Super 100. Will you play for me?