AJ Papa’s Blog

So I finally got around to watching SiCKO, Michael Moore’s latest film about the state of the health care system in the United States. It is quite a riveting documentary that will certainly open your eyes to some of the fallacies within the American system. *Spoiler alert* … actually wait … I don’t think you can spoil a documentary. Any ways, There was a part in the movie in which Michael Moore talked about an enormous list of ailments and conditions that HMOs could use to deny health coverage because you were deemed “unprofitable”. Seeing as how HMOs are here to help with our sicknesses in the first place, it seems counter-intuitive. However, I actually think the HMOs are on to something with this idea of auto denying patients.

LOL. If you thought SiCKO was going to be a touch point about my views on universal health care, I apologize. You are partly wrong. I am saving that entry for my I have nothing else to write about so I will write about an endlessly controversial topic like abortion in which nobody will even care what I think or say because everyone has made up their mind list. Instead I actually wanted to extrapolate what the American HMOs are doing and apply it to computer care. Computer care? What is computer care you ask? Well I often times get calls from family and friends asking me to fix their computer problems. Computer care is a system I propose in which, much like our American health care system, computers can get fixed so long as I agree to “insure” them. Again, much like the American HMO system, there are a few caveats you have to deal with before you can be insured by me with computer care insurance.

Here are the list of ailments and conditions that will get you automatically denied from Papa Permanente, a respected CMO (Computer Maintenance Organization), for Computer Care Insurance:

• If you open a suspicious email attachment then you should be denied computer care.
• If you have an unencrypted wireless network and an unrestricted home network then you should be denied computer care.
• If you have anti-virus software but do not update it regularly then you should be denied computer care.
• If you have no anti-virus software at all then you should be denied computer care and hit in the face with a stick that has “common sense” written on it.
• If your computer is full of cookies from porn sites then you should be denied computer care and kicked in the nuts.
• If you spill soda or coffee on your computer because you drink in close proximity to it then you should be denied health care, computer care, and any kind of sympathy all together.

If you don’t agree then I suggest you go to Canada. I hear their computer care is universal and paid for by the tax payers. Those crazy hockey playin’ socialist Canucks. =P

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