One Page Dungeon: The Bells of Solvent Healthcare Reform

[doublejig]

ONE PAGE DUNGEON: THE BELLS OF SOLVENT HEALTHCARE REFORM

JOHN Q PUBLIC
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Entitlement = prestige class
Prestige class has levels; baseline = 0 level = minimum service provided to every citizen, if any; e.g.: Healthcare; baseline, one free dental cleaning per year
Levels are earned through experience points
Experience points = work credit(s), earned through employment or purchased levels are ever widening concentric circles of coverage
Experience points earned by work or purchased (like today’s social security credit)
Rationing Action Point Total (RAPT) determines whether a given service shall be provided to an individual, if that service is not normally covered by the current level
Services are feats, skills, and powers
 Feats = full coverage
 Limits = partial or copay coverage
 Power = current Ration Action Point total locates individual in rationing queue, if economic reality reduces the ability of the government to a given level of service; people who don’t work and can’t pay have the lowest score and are the first to be rationed.

Healthcare System; there are seven levels, six representing a bell curve of 3 standard deviations plus a baseline 0-level. Two ways of looking at the curve:

From the user’s standpoint:
Like getting a social security card, everyone starts at level 0
 level 0 = baseline coverage; extreme left 3rd deviation out; it gets baseline coverage; example: medical coverage baseline = 1 free annual teeth cleaning
 level 1 = copper coverage; extreme left 2rd deviation out;= baseline + another group of coverages (those who stay here or below are
known as the copperheads (deadly American pit viper) and suited to this moniker by choice, demeanor, laziness, hard luck, stubbornness,
a separate reality, or just deadly venom and perhaps the willingness to use it.
 level 2 = silver (level 2-4 same decent feats: differing limits);
 level 3 = electrum
 level 4 = gold
 level 5 = platinum coverage; all feats, some limits
 level 6 = mithril unlimited coverage; all feats, min limits

From the administrator's standpoint:
Management of the system is designed to service the typical American worker (i.e., someone who works 50 - 60 years of their life) with most falling in the silver electrum and gold coverages
 techniques for management include
 changing the experience points required per level
 adjusting the feats and skills at a given level

Point of System Management is to privilege industry, both the employers and the effort of the individuals at work. Rationing Policy follows point of system management - If the typical American worker is being denied access to the better coverages, whether by economic downturn (scale Power by unemployment rate?), demographic blip, natural disasters, absurd shortages of rare earth, end of time doomsday scenario, etc. - The rationing must increase until a better threshold is achieved – Pareto’s Law has application here.

Level is determined by current experience points. Everyone starts at 0-level experience points are earned in work or by purchase. All experience points have equal value; e.g., the quarter of work performed by the doctor, soldier, or laborer counts no or less than the one put in by cashierist or dock worker. SSDI counts as work credit/SSI does not

Strictures:
 Each Prestige Class must have a baseline, or 0-level, even if this is an empty service
 No person shall be prevented from opting out (they still get baseline) or opting up (more experience points can always be purchased by those who can afford to do so

NET SOCIAL STATEMENT: Privileged American Citizen, you were told the rules and you wound up given your own initiative and without equivocation with the best healthcare America could afford to give you.

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

Did you really need all caps for the title?

Hint:

Spoiler:

No.

[doublejig]

DM_aka_Dudemeister wrote:

Did you really need all caps for the title?

Hint: ** spoiler omitted **

No. That's good advice for the future of the jar.

[Odraude]

What?

[A Man In Black]

Is this a parody of the byzantine American healthcare system, or byzantine roleplaying game design? I can't tell.

[Threadjack Gestapo]

A Man In Black wrote:

Is this a parody of the byzantine American healthcare system, or byzantine roleplaying game design? I can't tell.

A brand new account (created today) with 2 total posts, both found only in this gasoline-soaked straw-filled thread? I'm gonna go with "C) Neither of the above."

[doublejig]

The torch - It's an attempt to derive maximum velocity from the contraversial non-libertarian notion that Americans must pay for their healthcare whether they want to or not combined with the notion that the government should have a budget, which actually serves to constrain, granted a final nod to the idea that statist expansion of itself really can't be called an economic growth engine - long sentence.

Short of it; it's applied 3.5e, 3.75ish, 4e templating to a larger social problem with a mind to drive the solution like the Swiss rocket man. It's just cool.

[Threadjack Gestapo]

doublejig wrote:

<h##$+!!$% deleted>... so is just cool.

Riiiiiiiiiiight. Well, you kids have fun playing with your matches.

[doublejig]

Threadjack Gestapo wrote:

doublejig wrote:

<h&~$#*&*& deleted>... so is just cool.

Riiiiiiiiiiight. Well, you kids have fun playing with your matches.

It's the same old story, when e-harmony goes up against the Statue of Liberty... Socrates always winds up talking to the best looking man. Yet another argument against gay marriage, eh.

[Gary Teter]

Hi doublejig, and welcome to paizo.com! You've come right out of the gate with a, well, I'm not sure what exactly it is you're doing here. We'll let you have a little rope on this one but please be careful with political topics. Normally that's not a big deal in the off-topic forum but we've found for hot-button topics like religion and politics we need the conversation to remain on topic, so the aside about gay marriage is not a good idea. (Also it really helps the conversation if what you're saying makes sense.)

[doublejig]

Gary Teter wrote:

Hi doublejig, and welcome to paizo.com! You've come right out of the gate with a, well, I'm not sure what exactly it is you're doing here. We'll let you have a little rope on this one but please be careful with political topics. Normally that's not a big deal in the off-topic forum but we've found for hot-button topics like religion and politics we need the conversation to remain on topic, so the aside about gay marriage is not a good idea. (Also it really helps the conversation if what you're saying makes sense.)

Spoken like Henry Miller, sir, or rather like he might have insinuated with some non-stick Pam, but can no longer do like making strawman of some regular Marley without a chance. But, there are no regular Marleys without a chance. So can apology ever suffice the converse?

[A Man In Black]

This is a crazy person's diary.

[doublejig]

I'll add the clarifying ironic irony - drought.

[Urizen]

Suddenly, the resident dingo appears pretty damn sane in comparison.

<resumes drinking his beer and flips on tv to watch trolldiaries>

[doublejig]

Yet they feast on similar flesh... chicken vs bacon (francis)

[Odraude]

...

What?

[doublejig]

The dingo ate your baby (elaine, who would be a hen laying an egg and hence chicken, I guess, if feasted upon belatedly like gulping after cleaner than some water 'during a drought' and under a bridge)

Radical social innovation during a time of war is a known precursor to trouble (bacon).

[Odraude]

I just ate some bacon. It was delicious.

[doublejig]

Odraude wrote:

I just ate some bacon. It was delicious.

And the egg shall be called, goldfinger.

[Kelsey MacAilbert]

doublejig wrote:

Threadjack Gestapo wrote:

doublejig wrote:

<h&~$#*&*& deleted>... so is just cool.

Riiiiiiiiiiight. Well, you kids have fun playing with your matches.

It's the same old story, when e-harmony goes up against the Statue of Liberty... Socrates always winds up talking to the best looking man. Yet another argument against gay marriage, eh.

At least Socrates could get laid. Can't say the same as to the other two.

[Odraude]

Please keep posting magic man. I have to learn your secrets!

[doublejig]

Sacrificed a cock to Aesclepius as his last request, I heard?

[doublejig]

Here's a secret: your true name is 'Symphony of Twit'

[Odraude]

:O

[doublejig]

The statue of Liberty demands attention.

[Kelsey MacAilbert]

doublejig wrote:

Sacrificed a cock to Aesclepius as his last request, I heard?

Wouldn't surprise me.

[Kelsey MacAilbert]

doublejig wrote:

The statue of Liberty demands attention.

Not carnal attention. That'd be downright vulgar, and America does not and will not stand for such repulsiveness.

[doublejig]

early to rise; early to bed...

[pres man]

Sorry guys, I think I somehow forwarded my email spam folder to the forums.

[doublejig]

teeter totter

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[Kelsey MacAilbert]

doublejig wrote:

early to rise; early to bed...

Unless you work in a sweatshop that most assuredly does not produce America's cheap consumer products. THat'd be downright barbaric, and Americans are not barbarians.

[Gary Teter]

doublejig wrote:

teeter totter

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So... what I said above about making sense? The off-topic forum requires a minimum of actual words put into coherent sentences. We do have the forum games forum if you'd like to go the complete nonsense route. The rope, it is getting shorter.

[doublejig]

The Hussein bolt - a quick dash characterized by quip and pander. Studbolt on the other hand is featured in the One Page Dungeon solution to Healthcare Reform to start the thread.

[Urizen]

Weinen verheerender Schaden und entfesseln Sie die Corgi-Verbot Hammer!

[Gary Teter]

I think maybe it might be time to sleep it off. And maybe compose your thoughts before typing them into the little box, because repeated editing after posting kind of throws people for a loop.