The "public option" system currently being proposed by the Obama administration would quickly and inevitably lead to a de facto single payer system like what has been established in Europe. The propaganda spin being given this is that it will provide "affordable quality healthcare," for everyone.
This is impossible though, as the amount of medical care available is generally fixed at a certain level. It is like giving a million people a one dollar bill each to purchase a candybar except only having a 1,000 candybars stocked.
The real aim of a single-payer system though is not so much quality as e-quality. It is based on a Rawlsian view of "social justice" in which equality should be primary before ones ability to pay. Thus to draw from the candybar analogy instead of 1,000 people getting to have 1,000 quality candybars based on their ability to pay, a million people would equally receive a million candybar crumbs. They would be "equal" but would receive equal number of crumbs regardless of their ability to pay for more.
Thus the issue at stake is two differing views of justice. The view in which "equality" trumps everything including the rights of others and the view (ours) that people should be allowed to buy extra healthcare if they want to.
Thus the goal here is to create language to reinforce the proper view that it is wrong to prevent others from getting all the healthcare they can pay for.
To do that we have to define this right as a fixed point and generate a lexicon that completely reinforces it, by explaining how these rights will be infringed upon by the single-payer system.
Below I have a memeplex to deal with the topic of healthcare. Like usual I have it first in PRF format and then in dictionary format.
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PRF Format:
1.) "SOCIALIZED MEDICINE" "DENIES COVERAGE" or it wouldn't LIMIT CONSUMER FREEDOM.
SM > DC v ~LCF
2.) HEALTHCARE SOCIALIZATION violates PATIENT-CONSUMER RIGHTS or it wouldn't STEAL COVERAGE.
HS > (~)PCR v ~SC
3.) HEALTHCARE RATIONING is ECONOMICALLY UNJUST or it wouldn't REDISTRIBUTE HEALTHCARE.
HR > EU v (~)RH
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Dictionary Format*:
*Some additional memes that have been donated by other MemeShockers, (kudos to Jason Bowden and Will Bullock) are included at the end. They are not part of the original memeplex but work well with the given language.
1.) SOCIALIZED MEDICINE: A medicine system that denies coverage by preventing others from purchasing healthcare on the free market.
2.) DENIES COVERAGE: The property of a socialized medical system in preventing one from being covered with ones own money.
3.) LIMIT PATIENT CHOICE: The effect of socialized medicine of denying patients the choice to purchase additional healthcare if they want it.
4.) HEALTHCARE SOCIALIZATION: The process of turning our healthcare system into a single-payer system.
5.) PATIENT-CONSUMER RIGHTS: The rights of patient-consumers to purchase healthcare on the free market
6.) STEAL COVERAGE: The act of taking ones healthcare and giving it to others.
7.) HEALTHCARE RATIONING: The redistribution of healthcare in even amounts.
8.) ECONOMICALLY UNJUST: The property of being unjust justice being defined as the right to do with ones money as one wishes (the idea here is to do meme-reappropriation from the left "economic/social justice" nonsense meme.
9.) REDISTRIBUTE HEALTHCARE: Denying coverage from some so as to give it to others.
10.) PATIENT-CONSUMER: Any patient who purchases healthcare on the free market. We want to conjoin this phrase so that the possibility of a patient who is not a consumer has been "surgically" (pun intended) been removed from the mind of opposition.
11.) DEATHCARE: Bumper sticker type meme to describe single-payer/public option healthcare.
12.) AUTHORITARIAN MEDICINE: Obama's healthcare proposal stressing it's authoritarian nature in denying people further coverage.
13.) CONSUMER FREEDOM: The freedom of patient-consumers to purchase their own healthcare as they see fit.
14.) PROTECTING CHOICES: The act of maintaining the current healthcare system and thereby allowing for greater patient-consumer choice.
15.) MEDICAL EXTORTION: Illegal use of official position or powers to obtain property, funds, or patronage. Forcing one to join the government run single payer system of healthcare or else pay huge tax fines.
The "public option" system currently being proposed by the Obama administration would quickly and inevitably lead to a de facto single payer system like what has been established in Europe. The propaganda spin being given this is that it will provide "affordable quality healthcare," for everyone.
This is impossible though, as the amount of medical care available is generally fixed at a certain level. It is like giving a million people a one dollar bill each to purchase a candybar except only having a 1,000 candybars stocked.
The real aim of a single-payer system though is not so much quality as e-quality. It is based on a Rawlsian view of "social justice" in which equality should be primary before ones ability to pay. Thus to draw from the candybar analogy instead of 1,000 people getting to have 1,000 quality candybars based on their ability to pay, a million people would equally receive a million candybar crumbs. They would be "equal" but would receive equal number of crumbs regardless of their ability to pay for more.
Thus the issue at stake is two differing views of justice. The view in which "equality" trumps everything including the rights of others and the view (ours) that people should be allowed to buy extra healthcare if they want to.
Thus the goal here is to create language to reinforce the proper view that it is wrong to prevent others from getting all the healthcare they can pay for.
To do that we have to define this right as a fixed point and generate a lexicon that completely reinforces it, by explaining how these rights will be infringed upon by the single-payer system.
Below I have a memeplex to deal with the topic of healthcare. Like usual I have it first in PRF format and then in dictionary format.
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PRF Format:
1.) "SOCIALIZED MEDICINE" "DENIES COVERAGE" or it wouldn't LIMIT CONSUMER FREEDOM.
SM > DC v ~LCF
2.) HEALTHCARE SOCIALIZATION violates PATIENT-CONSUMER RIGHTS or it wouldn't STEAL COVERAGE.
HS > (~)PCR v ~SC
3.) HEALTHCARE RATIONING is ECONOMICALLY UNJUST or it wouldn't REDISTRIBUTE HEALTHCARE.
HR > EU v (~)RH
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Dictionary Format*:
*Some additional memes that have been donated by other MemeShockers, (kudos to Jason Bowden and Will Bullock) are included at the end. They are not part of the original memeplex but work well with the given language.
1.) SOCIALIZED MEDICINE: A medicine system that denies coverage by preventing others from purchasing healthcare on the free market.
2.) DENIES COVERAGE: The property of a socialized medical system in preventing one from being covered with ones own money.
3.) LIMIT PATIENT CHOICE: The effect of socialized medicine of denying patients the choice to purchase additional healthcare if they want it.
4.) HEALTHCARE SOCIALIZATION: The process of turning our healthcare system into a single-payer system.
5.) PATIENT-CONSUMER RIGHTS: The rights of patient-consumers to purchase healthcare on the free market
6.) STEAL COVERAGE: The act of taking ones healthcare and giving it to others.
7.) HEALTHCARE RATIONING: The redistribution of healthcare in even amounts.
8.) ECONOMICALLY UNJUST: The property of being unjust justice being defined as the right to do with ones money as one wishes (the idea here is to do meme-reappropriation from the left "economic/social justice" nonsense meme.
9.) REDISTRIBUTE HEALTHCARE: Denying coverage from some so as to give it to others.
10.) PATIENT-CONSUMER: Any patient who purchases healthcare on the free market. We want to conjoin this phrase so that the possibility of a patient who is not a consumer has been "surgically" (pun intended) been removed from the mind of opposition.
11.) DEATHCARE: Bumper sticker type meme to describe single-payer/public option healthcare.
12.) AUTHORITARIAN MEDICINE: Obama's healthcare proposal stressing it's authoritarian nature in denying people further coverage.
13.) CONSUMER FREEDOM: The freedom of patient-consumers to purchase their own healthcare as they see fit.
14.) PROTECTING CHOICES: The act of maintaining the current healthcare system and thereby allowing for greater patient-consumer choice.
15.) MEDICAL EXTORTION: Illegal use of official position or powers to obtain property, funds, or patronage. Forcing one to join the government run single payer system of healthcare or else pay huge tax fines.
