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Universal Whore Care

Tonight the adult industry will be doing a fund raiser for Nikki Hunter and her real, non Sophia Lynn type cancer. Its great that their helping Nikki out, but what about the medical concerns of all the other whores. Rather than do fund raisers every time some whore is diagnosed with illness, why not do something more profound. Let the politicians talk about Universal Healthcare. Let porn take on Universal Whore Care (tm).

How would it work you ask. Ordinarily large employers can purchase healthcare for employees and due to their size obtain better rates than individuals. The cost is then split between the employer and employee. In this case, you can have the various agents and studios purchasing for all whores in the industry and contributing approximately half of the cost. The whore would then contribute her half.

Among the nifty features of a Universal Whore Care (TM) plan would be access to AIM tests, drug and psychological counseling with a co-pay. As the saying goes, healthy whores are happy whores. There is no shortage of whores who could use access to these services.

If the industry can come together to implement something like Adult Industry Medicine, which is technically voluntary, then there's no reason why U.H. can't become a reality as well.

I realize that there are a myriad of problems and issues that would have to be overcome. This is meant as a starting point for discussion on what those obstacles would be and how to overcome them.

Its time for the adult industry to start acting like a billion dollar business rather than the Triangle Shirt Waist Company.

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Who fucking cares for a dumb whore who didn't plan ahead and buy health insurance??? They're smart enough to buy drugs and materialistic things but aren't smart enough to protect the one thing that makes them money...their bodies.

And now they get handouts for the mismanagement of their money and irresponbility??? Why reward them for their stupidity??

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Who fucking cares for a dumb whore who didn't plan ahead and buy health insurance??? They're smart enough to buy drugs and materialistic things but aren't smart enough to protect the one thing that makes them money...their bodies.

And now they get handouts for the mismanagement of their money and irresponbility??? Why reward them for their stupidity??

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The Car Manufacturers- Who cares about the auto workers.

General Contractors- Who cares about the electricians, carpenters, plumbers, etc.

Transport Company's- Who cares about the truck drivers.

Good businesses take reasonable care of their employees. If the adult industry wants to go down that road, its fine with me as long as they admit they are running a sweat shop.

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Who fucking cares for a dumb whore who didn't plan ahead and buy health insurance???

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Who fucking cares for a dumb whore who didn't plan ahead and buy health insurance???

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And how many 19 year-old kids buy health insurance *outside* of porn? Probably about the same percentage as those inside...

Insurance isn't magic. The bills somehow have to be paid. Insurance just lets you average out the costs across a large group so that no one person's bills (such as Nikki's) go out of control - those costs are still there.

The problem with a performer's union is simple: newcomer influx. There's a new one getting off the bus every day. No matter how many performers banded together to start a union the studios would always have an endless supply of new whores willing to shoot non-union.

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You have all picked up on the biggest problem with instituting healthcare for performers and others in the industry. That is, performers come and go. So here's a posible solution. Require that in order to perform in an adult production that performers show proof that they have health care coverage. If they do not have a policy, they will be required to join in a plan underwritter by studios, agents and Aim to lower costs and administered by Aim.

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I am self employed...you can go directly to insurance carriers and buy a nice PPO plan for $100 to $200 per month. That's very little considered what else they are spending their money on.

Responsible 19 year old's have health insurance through their college/university and are still on their parents policy until 25 years old.

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Wouldn't that apply to Aim & Aids tests as well? Granted, no male would work with a girl who wasn't tested. But a male who had to go out and pay for insurance would refuse to bang a girl who didn't jump through the same hoops. But your point has some merit and it would only work if people want it to work.

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So if we're saying studios/producers wouldn't play ball, then the only really logical way of organzing something would be to have AIM levy a fee on every test. That money would then be placed into a trust/benevolent fund for the future benefit of ill porners.

Of course, this would rely on AIM's involvement and the whole industry trusting 'Dr' Mitchell.

So....

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nikki "snaggletooth whore" hunter should have basic coverage to deal with this crisis but does not, so now she is (sort of) screwed financially.

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Look at Asia Carerra. If her husband wasn't smart enough to buy life insurance, her ass would be turning tricks with her newborn on her hip to survive.

For a supposed MENSA member, Asia wasn't smart enough to build that safety net either.

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Um...I guess you didn't hear? Asia suddenly got total recall after all the fanboy donations had done rolling in, and remembered that her husband did in fact have a life insurance policy after all.

You can read about it on her site, or alternatively do a search on XPT to get some colourful commentary on this amazing and totally plausible turn of events.

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Next thing you'll know, they'll be asking us the support their kids after they died of HIV, cancer, or any God stricken disease just because they didn't plan ahead.

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Funny that you mention that. You guys are lucky that the American Trial Lawyers Association has not gotten wind of how juicy a target porn valley is. The adult community is a billion dollar business that is practically defenseless as the studios could never work together even if it meant their own survival.

The first thing that would happen is the trial lawyers, rather than going after a single company that would go belly up, would go after industry wide liability, apportioning damages to each and every company in proportion to their gross. Then their would be a revenue stream for the court to start awarding damages to so many whores with post porn medical conditions, from rectal problems to STD's, to HIV. The result will be a defacto health care plan, albeit a very costly one that will reck the finances of many companies leaving one or two standing.

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Look at Asia Carerra. If her husband wasn't smart enough to buy life insurance, her ass would be turning tricks with her newborn on her hip to survive.

For a supposed MENSA member, Asia wasn't smart enough to build that safety net either.

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Um...I guess you didn't hear? Asia suddenly got total recall after all the fanboy donations had done rolling in, and remembered that her husband did in fact have a life insurance policy after all.

You can read about it on her site, or alternatively do a search on XPT to get some colourful commentary on this amazing and totally plausible turn of events.

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Performing in adult films is an inherenently high risk occupation. 18 year olds don't ordinarilly think long term. I'll bet that 99% of college students don't carry health insurance either.

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Next thing you'll know, they'll be asking us the support their kids after they died of HIV, cancer, or any God stricken disease just because they didn't plan ahead.

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Funny that you mention that. You guys are lucky that the American Trial Lawyers Association has not gotten wind of how juicy a target porn valley is. The adult community is a billion dollar business that is practically defenseless as the studios could never work together even if it meant their own survival.

The first thing that would happen is the trial lawyers, rather than going after a single company that would go belly up, would go after industry wide liability, apportioning damages to each and every company in proportion to their gross. Then their would be a revenue stream for the court to start awarding damages to so many whores with post porn medical conditions, from rectal problems to STD's, to HIV. The result will be a defacto health care plan, albeit a very costly one that will reck the finances of many companies leaving one or two standing.

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You don't need to wait for American Trial Lawyer Association, CAL OSHA has been power to crack down and force all studios and employers to see whores as employees and deduct healthcare costs from their checks to pay for it.

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Performing in adult films is an inherenently high risk occupation. 18 year olds don't ordinarilly think long term. I'll bet that 99% of college students don't carry health insurance either.

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99% of college students do have basic and accident coverage through the colleges.

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There are more than 45.8 million Americans today without health insurance, a number expected to increase to 56 million within the next decade. As much as 10 percent of the uninsured population is composed of college students.
Young adults make up the largest age-group of uninsured Americans; nearly one in three of the uninsured are between 18 and 24 years old.
Colleges and universities in states such as Massachusetts, California and New Jersey have implemented programs that require health insurance coverage as a condition of college enrollment.
Aetna supports legislation that requires all students to possess private or school-sponsored health coverage before enrolling in a college or university.

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Hmmm, if colleges can require students to have coverage in order to attend, why can't the adult industry.

As far as your OSHA comment, it supports my recomendation that the industry do something before the goverment does it for them.

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Performing in adult films is an inherenently high risk occupation. 18 year olds don't ordinarilly think long term. I'll bet that 99% of college students don't carry health insurance either.

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99% of college students do have basic and accident coverage through the colleges.

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There are more than 45.8 million Americans today without health insurance, a number expected to increase to 56 million within the next decade. As much as 10 percent of the uninsured population is composed of college students.
Young adults make up the largest age-group of uninsured Americans; nearly one in three of the uninsured are between 18 and 24 years old.
Colleges and universities in states such as Massachusetts, California and New Jersey have implemented programs that require health insurance coverage as a condition of college enrollment.
Aetna supports legislation that requires all students to possess private or school-sponsored health coverage before enrolling in a college or university.

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Hmmm, if colleges can require students to have coverage in order to attend, why can't the adult industry.

As far as your OSHA comment, it supports my recomendation that the industry do something before the goverment does it for them.

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Moxie...you are playing a broken record. This issue has been debated, discussed, and argued for decades. The whores don't give a rats ass about themselves and the Jews are too jewish to give a damn.

So why don't you take it one step further and call for a self impose consumer tax/donation for each video they buy or porn site they join of 25 cents so it can collectively buy health insurance for these dumb fuckwhores.

Being a supposed lawyer Moxie, you sure should more like a commie than anything.

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In other threads I've been accused of being in bed with George W. Here I'm a commie. I think I did propose something like that, except It would be the super pimps (agents) and studio owners who would pick up half the bill.

Having a health insurance requirement for people in inherantly dangerous positions is part of the way business has been done for decades. its smart and avoids litigation down the line. Additionaly, as I have shown, colleges are requireing young people to take out insurance cause they think they are never gonna get sick.

I don't see what your point is. If I say studios pay for it your response is I hate whores"

If I say require whores to have insurance to work your responce is " I hate whores". Now who is the brojken record?.

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Moxie, you're a goddamned commie pinko Republican warmongering dove.

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moxie = phlogiston?

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Tricia it seems that you agree that performers need to have health insurance but you oppose them being required to purchase it. So it seems you are advocating that the studios and agents should pick up the the entire tab.

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