The Dagley Dagley Daily

By Janet Dagley Dagley
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Proposed solutions...

...to some of the most vexing problems facing us today.

Problem: Rush Limbaugh

Solution: Assign the commentator on color to get down there on the field like George Plimpton did and engage in some "participatory journalism." The NFL might need to grant him a special exemption from the rule against performance-enhancing drugs. He also might need a doctor's exam to make sure the affliction that kept him out of the Vietnam War is all better now.

Problem: Kim Jong Il of North Korea and his new nukes

Solution: This one's up to California voters. A) Elect him governor. When he goes through airport security on the way to Sacramento to accept the job, he won't be able to bring any weapons along. B) As soon as he's sworn in, recall him. Repeat as necessary or desired.

Problem: Threats to overtime pay from proposed changes to Labor Department regulations

Solution: Rename the Harkin amendment, already passed by the Senate, and now before the House (yesterday's scheduled vote on the question was postponed). Call it an amendment to ban "Partial Pay Workdays", and the House will pass it right away.

Problem: Outing of CIA operatives, thus crippling our efforts to thwart terrorists

Solution: Assign the investigation to a man for whom the primary suspect once worked as a campaign advisor, and meanwhile, station Robert Novak with a bullhorn to stand outside the White House saying, "Move along. Move along. Nothing to see here. Move along," until that investigation is completed. Just kidding: that's the current administration's solution. My proposed solution would be an independent investigation conducted by a trained, experienced prosecutor with no ties to the people involved, working on a fixed budget rather than the blank check that was given former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, who incidentally had no previous criminal law experience when he got the assignment.

Problem: More than 43 million Americans with no health insurance

The government's solution: A growing number of the uninsured are also unemployed, those who are working either are employed but can't afford premiums, or are self-employed and can't buy insurance at any price. So the Department of Health and Human Services has come up with a plan to give those people tax credits, which might help some of those who are employed but can't afford premiums, that is if they're families with two parents, two children, and household incomes under $25,000, in which case they could get up to $3,000 in credits (with premiums around $1,000 per month for a family that size, that means that if they could find a plan that would take them, and if they could manage to pay $9,000 in premiums themselves, the government might chip in and pay 3 months' worth. But if they're not in a group plan, that insurance wouldn't cover any pre-existing conditions. An individual making up to $15,000 a year would be eligible for up to $1,000 in credits, which at the prices I've seen would cover two months' worth of premiums, maybe a bit more to buy a prescription. The individual would have to cover the other 10 months' worth, or $5,000 in premiums, out of that $15,000, and that would still not cover any pre-existing conditions. The unemployed would presumably get a break on the taxes they don't pay on the income they're not earning, and as for self-employed people with pre-existing conditions, they couldn't buy individual health insurance that would cover those conditions, not even if they won the lotto.

My solution: Single payer, universal health care, already available in most every other "developed" country in the world.

posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @3:42 PM

2.10.03