Introducing FlipflopCare

Dear Dr. Bones,

One had thought ’Romneycare’ a word of mere abuse hurled from the general direction of Louisedayhicksville, but no, not at all, for here

‘Dumper’ scam bleed$ us dry Dodgers jump on, off insurance, costing Mass. taxpayers millions By Frank Quaratiello Friday, November 25, 2011 (...) A gaping loophole in state insurance rules that lets freeloaders pick up coverage to pay for expensive surgeries — and then dump it once they’re treated — has cost taxpayers as much as $37 million a year, according to a study that warns the same wrinkle in Obamacare could add a staggering $2 billion a year to the deficit-wracked [F]ederal budget. Exploiting a state provision that forces insurers to cover patients with pre-existing medical conditions, thousands of so-called “jumpers and dumpers” are buying plans just before major operations and procedures, and then chucking their coverage and passing those costs onto residents who play by the rules, according to a study by Suffolk University’s Beacon Hill Institute obtained by the Herald. (...)

come some ’conservative’ ’intellectual’ señoritos to explain that Governor Mittens has in fact erected a remarkable bureaucratic monument to his own best an’ most spiritual neoqualities, recognized as such even by his freelordship’s political adversaries. This grand mischievement is rather as if the late General Bonaparte had left France with a coastline carved in the shape of his own Imperial mug.

So let us resolve, Dr. Bones, henceforth always to refer to ... ¡ta-Da! ... FLIPFLOPCARE , not merely because anybooby can flip in and then flop out of it as her portfolio manager may think best, but especially in honor of the Venerable Framer.

That said, it looks as if the V. F. should be reminded about it himself, because once you really understand how FFC works, you see that any resemblance to the evil new Fedguv programme mandatewise is entirely imaginary. I don’t suppose Mittens could actually get such a grown-up distinction across to, say, His Texcellency or Mr. Nine Guy or Don Neutrino de Gingrich, in front of cameras an’ commentators’ an’ (maybe) a few hundred thousand Party nutbats from sea to whinin’ sea--with stupidity, the Stupid Party itself contends in vain, after all--but his freelordship certainly ought to try.

That said, let’s shoot the messenger a little, ¿shall we? Party Neocomrade (eighth grade) F. X. Quaratiello is, I take it, local talent at LDHville, still lookin’ for a way to break out into the whight lights of the big city. Some kind ideobuddy should, I think, advice the laddie to omit footnotes like "according to a study by Suffolk University’s Beacon Hill Institute obtained by the _Herald_."

True, if I were to hand you a copy of my employing corporation’s next press release and pester you to print it, it would not be inaccurate, technically, to say "obtained by Dr. Bones" after the fact. But I put it to you, sir, that such language involves a genuine and significant _suggestio falsi_ as to which party took the active, and which the passive-aggressive rôle, in the humanoid event. Were you to report it the PNC-8 FXQ way, your empoying corporation’s poor customers are like to fantasize that you burgled McTrickledown’s apartment at the Watergate Arms in the early hours of the morning in order to do your ‘obtaining’. I appreciate that you couldn’t possibly call a press release of this type "a press release," but there is no need for you or the PNC-8 FXQ mechanism to call your sources anything at all, not even ‘sources’.

I would not go so far as to suggest that the _Herald_ of LDHV must explain exactly who pays for the BHI of SU (an’ why) every single time that muchesteemed [1] Tank-a’-Thought is mentioned. ("¿Who *is* Chuck Rounds?." inquired the late Miss Rand of St. Petersburg and Planet Dilbert, as she rose from the crypt just after nightfall. "Why, ¡he sounds like the name of a crumby restaurant!") To mandate _expressio veri_ ‘proäctively’ would be an outrageous assault on the Great Wall of Jeffersonian Separation of Market and State, even I admit that, yet silence is not proäction or proäctivity or proäctivism or proä . . . .

Well, what it comes to with the PNC-8 FXQ mechanism at the end of the day is simply _Si tacuisses, diurnalisticus mansisses_.

That said, we may move on to suspect that the PNC-8 FXQ mechanism (and/or its employin’ Corporation) decided to rewrite the BHI-SU press release they obtained somehow rather than pass it along to the LDHV kiddiecons verbatim. At any rate, that is what one infers when an intellectually respectable organ writes up a story from Major Leaker with only parts of it punctuated as direct quotation. ¡The rest of it had damnwell BETTER be accurate paraphrase!

(( DIGRESSION. The student should note that inaccuracy of paraphrase can be of various sorts, and especially that it need not be the result of willful an’ malignant twistification in the path of Party an’ Ideology. Maybe Master Cliff- simply did not understand the original from which he was scribblin’ his employin’ Corporation’s -Notes™. This happens all the time, it seems to me, and in fact one can see it happening several times daily, as follows: read through any article and then recur to the headers and especially the subheaders at the top of it. Master Cliff- , dba headline editor of The Herald of Louisedayhicksville or whatever fishwrap you like, often tries to summarize the fish as he wraps ’em, and nearly as often (as it seems to McPessimist) causes one to doubt his readin’ comprehension skills. There are ten doubts of that type for every one about Master Cliff-´s ability to keep his, or his employin’ Corporation’s, factious hormones in check. [2] ))

That said, I wish you, sir, as ever,

Happy days (through affordable health care).
--JHM

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[1] mnogouvazhàyemiy

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[2] In the case at hand, there is nothing to tax Master Cliff- with apart from one sill¥ ¢urrency symbo£. If that juve sort of clownin’ annoys you, though, the thing to do is stay away from LDHV altogether. Brats *will* be brats, I fear, and if one tries to reform ’em, one only winds up establishing one’s own need to review King Canute’s famous object lesson on the topic.