House of Paine

THE HMO's and lemon socialism

      whenever i subvocalize HMO
I hear Curlie Howard
calling his brothers name
i can't help myself
  its automatic like a tic
  H   M   MOE

same thing happens
when i subvoc
the title of Sartre's
autobiography
LES MOE



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  at any rate
in an earlier post here
on the house
I blew some smoke
in the direction of these hapless
job sumps
the insurance industry
  has kept going
through countless cycles
of hand over hikes

  and as of the latest
congressional bowel movement
the hand overs now seem
to include a regimen
of hand outs as well

this type of side door shadiness
will  start to pile up fast

     lets face it
those three letters are
the plebs  pinata  of choice
  most days they ain't 
day dreaming
about college peace sluts

  no one cares for
HMO'S
 cept those
who job there
and those who own em

   my gripe is obvious
THE OWNERS
ain't going away
empty handed
and so
they block
single pay solutions

ok 
facing the fucking huge
waste  of administrative effort
 CHILLS MY SCOTISH BLOOD 
           particularly
in an era 
               thats everywhere
 replete with bizy  corporations 
 grinding away at
these termite towers
they hoisted above us over the last century  
 
  the st Max
 paper jiggers 
are getting it in the neck 
everywhere 
daily
   and on a mass scale

  but fuck in hmoland
the congressionals
are ready to 
 keep the hives humming
 make work 
through a private
screen is annoying

hey man 
 we're  two feet
fom a  one payer
canadian high
shit 
we could have 
the deal locked in 
here tomorrow

that I miss


i mean really 
just cause
today the hmo's are private property
we canted
monopsonate

god check out those ontario drug prices 
imagine puttin the thumb screws
to  the RX  boys
down here in the states 

and slash the clothes and exercise budgets
of those
ass hole sanctimonious
MD's wives while we're at it 
no place to hide 
once Uncles
 the only game in town 

see the rub 
go one payer 
and we
wipe out 
the HMO's raison d'etre

forget about it
not going to happen 

to recap
heres the challenge

as we slouch our way
 towards
the one payer future
how to cut
the present
administrative quintuplication
and not hose the poor widows and orphans
who own the HMO's 
or job there

enter lemon socialism


its an old trick
the  Brits
did a packet full
of lemon socialization
back after the second great war

steel
coal
   heavy smokestack stuff
actually
worked out great
if not as intended

jobfare
for milions

 guys and gals holding down
good paying
dinosaur jobs

union jobs

the nation gave them
a slower 
gentler ride to termination
a far better ride
then the one way ticket 
on an  ice cake
the private parts 
would have dished out

 poor deck hands
deserve better
 if they can get it 
and in the post war UK
they got it

and along the way
they  stages
 a kind of theme park
reenactment 
 of the klass struggle

this time agin a puffy
wet headed 
state bureaucracy
not ole Gradgrind and son 

and all involved 
say it was grand

strikes pickets
fuss and fume
fury and fame

and all in a teapot

and the whole  tab
the whole over shot 
was picked up 
by the bloody  taxpayers

  not some thieving  stockholders

kinda spread the misery
thin enough to be born
and kept the vultures
 clear of the rotten flesh

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the stages of lemonism

stage one
  assisted living
the occasional loss absorbed
without a shut down 

stage two
nursing home care
serious supportive therapy
the ever more frequent transfusions
the periodic scares followed by  
 boundless talk of
a miracle  turn around 

final stage
a big boo hoo finish
in   intensive care
  iron lung stuff
  cause
we really love you bloaks
 after all  we brits love
 you dingy scuts 
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ofcourse
the stock and bond holders
had already
long since  gotten
their buyout money
way up  front
 years earlier
so all in all 
a win win
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bought out  by the nation
and sent 
on a slow slow  ride 
to the embalmer 
 
what  a fine way
 for a dinosaur
to  end  her days

 like 
the Howard brothers
  2 reelers
by my lights 
the toils of 
lemon socialism
are an unfairly maligned
body of work 

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back to todays target

the HMO's

first off
any  buy out
 has got to be cheap
the fuckers are barely breathing 
as it is

like beached behemouths
to stay alive
we 'll need to feed em
 massive rations of good green
just so they can turn 
a ten cents a share or something 

why should us 
unwilling do gooder
wagelings 
watch ourselves 
get sucked dry 
just cause  
the system can't produce 
enough real jobs 
 for all those nimbos 
fucking A 
theres literally 
 tower after tower full
of  these egregiously 
redundent wasteful 
data hand massage operations 

and then  
on top of that 
we got to insure the insurers 
so  they get a decent return 
on their stock investments
 and their creditors get  paid 
and blah dee blah blah blah 


I could go on and on

point is
lets bite the pickle now

lets
get it over with

lets fucking 
pay off the owners now 

give em their bribe
their go fucking away  money

its got to be cheaper this way
then bottle them 
from  now
 till we blow a gasket  

lets  start
the inevitable right now today 
and slowly ever so slowly
 grind away 
at them  tower maids  
get em off to  Clearwater 
and Hot Springs 
all of them 
in their hundreds of thousands
all of them 
and their  pea size uniquenesses too 

ship em out to the sunbelt
only when
 their finally fucking
 good and  ready ofcourse  

hell they're entitled 
to final rights like that aren't they
not their fault
we can't find a real use for em
is it 
they're owed respect 
just like the rest
of us low use joblings

 its humaner this way

a spongy public pathway
to their retirement
for each lovin one of them 
one and all


and then we can cut a long smelly one 
and  dream of the day
when computers 'll 
do the whole bit 
better 
and for peanuts