Sunday, November 03, 2013

Well sex workers like Obamacare. So there!

Courtesy of CNN Money:  

A burlesque dancer dressed as a nurse taunts her co-performer with a toy syringe, dangling the medicine seductively in an act that's meant to reflect the cat-and-mouse game of U.S. healthcare. They shimmy and eventually end up topless. 

The risqué performance was part of an Obamacare registration drive last week in San Francisco, dubbed the "Healthy Ho's Party." 

Organized by "Siouxsie Q," a Bay Area sex worker, the event was meant to encourage other sex workers to enroll in the new insurance exchanges. It was a rousing success: Nearly 40 men and women attended and almost all of them filed enrollment paperwork. 

In the all-cash, off-the-books sex industry, workers can be particularly high risk and insurance is often out of reach. Many sex workers -- a broad term that can refer to a number of services, including sexual massage, prostitution, and escort and dominatrix work -- consider themselves self-employed entrepreneurs who can't afford to purchase healthcare. But that could all change with the Affordable Care Act. 

Siouxsie, 28, has shopped for plans countless times since 2008, coming up empty each time. She and her partner recently reviewed their healthcare options and found that a joint plan would have cost between $400 and $500 a month -- an unaffordably large chunk of their incomes. 

"We just couldn't swing [insurance] in the Bay Area -- we're lower middle class, recent college graduates, in Startup Land trying to make our way," she said. 

But come January 1, when the new law goes into effect, she and her partner will be looking at a monthly bill of between $175 and $200. They're deciding between two plans on the California exchange and will receive a tax credit of about $275 a month (without the credit it would have cost nearly $500).

Okay I think I might just have come up with a marketing plan that would get people to sign up for the Affordable Care Act in droves.

We should just have YouPorn or RedTube run the site, and while people are signing up they can be talked through the process by a hot young porn star facilitator volunteering their time in exchange for access to free health care of their own. Sounds like a win win to me.

It might not be legal in every state but it will probably be just that much more popular in the Bible Belt where largest population of Americans watch porn.

And let's face it who knows more about how to set up and run an efficient website than porn companies?  Almost all of the recent online technological breakthroughs have been the result of people looking for naked pictures on the internet.

Sure it may piss off the Religious Right, but then again when are they NOT pissed off?

Just an idea. 

11 comments:

  1. Then again, Bubba might stay disease free for his lady.

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    1. Actually if Bubba wanted to stay disease free he would be better served going to a professional sex worker, who are often tested for STD's and universally insist on condoms then hooking up with a willing neighbor lady.

      Not to promote prostitution or porn, which are grey areas for me, but avoiding disease should not be the determining factor.

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    2. "than hooking up with a willing neighbor lady."

      I hate it when I do that.

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    3. Sorry, the dour comment was NOT directed at Lynn.

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    4. Those willing neighbor ladies just spoil it for everyone, don't they? (That's why we can't have nice things.)

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  2. “…in the Bible Belt where largest population of Americans watch porn.” With the big factory farms, there are fewer people watching Victor the Bull and the heifers. They had to find something else.

    This is a good idea. With a few dour exceptions, people pay attention to sex.

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  3. Beldar J Conehead9:17 AM

    SEX WORKERS!!!

    Ok, now that I have your attention... let's talk Obamacare.

    Most of us have been waiting to hear what Amercia's Sage, Mittens Romney has to say about Obomneycare and now that he's spoken, it doesnt look good.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/03/mitt-romney-obamacare-health-care-website/3414179/

    If the lazy libtard visitors to this defunct blog dont have the energy to read the linked article, here is a one act play that dramatizes what the article reveals:

    "I Coulda, Woulda, Shouda Been A Contender"

    QA: (tapping on the tinted window of Mittens' black 2009 Cadillac Escalade (with vanity license plate HL 2D CHF) as it slowly rise atop the car elevator platform to nowhere) "Honey, c'mon, please... Mittens... please. roll down the window... we need to talk..."
    (window rolls down to reveal the still boyishly handsome yet humiliation-twisted face of the 2012 Presidential election second place winner)
    MR: "What is it?"
    QA: "Oh, Mittens, don't be like that... You have to snap out of this funk... It's been a year..."
    MR: I. was. defeated. by. a. black. man. A BLACK MAN, ANNIE!!! How can that be?"
    QA: "I don't know, Mittens... They must have cheated... Maybe the Jews... I don't know... the point is you come out here every day in your pajamas and sit in this car listening to sad music, holding that stupid White House ash tray Reagan sent you, you don't even smoke... going up and down in this car elevator and..
    MR: "What's your point?"
    QA: "My point is get up and do something! Remember you had all those plans to fix the ecomony? You could..
    MR: "Stop it, Annie! You know that was campaign bullshit!
    QA: "MITTENS! You promised! No dirty talk unless it's sexy time! And... this.. is not sexy time."
    MR: "No... no, it isnt."
    QA: "What do you want to do then?"
    MR: "I dunno... I suppose I could... I dunno... maybe I could criticize something... I suppose.."
    QA: YES!!! CRITICIZE!! You're wonderful at that! Keep going! What would you criticize? C'mon!"
    MR: "I dunno... I suppose... well, I could criticize Obama... I guess..."
    QA: "YES!!! OH, MITTENS!!! YES! That's perfect! Criticize Obama!"
    MR: "Do we still get the daily talking points fax? I could get some ideas...."
    QA: "Absolutely! I'll get Maria to bring them to you in your office. Oh, this is wonderful! Now you get out of this car, splash some cold water on your face, put some chinos on and that nice madras shirt I got you in 1973 and you start working on a statement attacking Obama! You get a little bile circulating, get your hostility down on paper, you'll feel much better, I promise."
    MR: "I'll do it!"
    QA: "Remember, Mitty, even tho the darkies and the jooz stole that election, you didn't want that stupid job anyway..."
    MR: (reaching out to hug his wife as she recoils) "Baby... You're the greatest."

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  4. Anonymous9:17 AM

    See Sarah, Tawd's hookers can now get healthcare for a fair price.

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  5. Anonymous10:02 AM

    I'm sure someone knows more about this than I do...but is it not true that when the sex industry is regulated and health care provided, there are less cases of STD's? A combination of education and prevention. Kind of like sex education for teens??
    I am so tired of these religious/morality types who want to legislate their closeted beliefs. Like the pharmacist who won't fill a prescription for birth control. My husband just told me his friend got some grief from the pharmacist about his pain pills! Hey if you have a legal prescription from your doctor then it's nobody's business. My son was on prophylactic antibiotics for a year and the pharmacist was giving me a hard time about "overprescribed" antibiotics. I just looked her in the eye and said, this world renowned Dr. So and So from the top notch children's hospital wants my son to follow this course of therapy...of course I'll be sure to tender your opinion on my next visit.

    Sorry veered a little off topic. I hope you get my point.

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  6. Anonymous2:39 PM

    I for one love redtube and youporn, but those aren't even the best sites. One thing about porn is, MOST People watch it. Only Europeans publicly admit it though. haha

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  7. Anita Winecooler3:57 PM

    Ah the oldest profession in the world! They should legalize the sex industry, regulate it, and tax it just like any other business. I feel the same way about churches. Who names a pornsite "redtube"? Sounds like something that needs an ointment or medical attention.

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