I work in healthcare and UHC means UnitedHealthcare. I deal with them every other day. Nice people, annoying policies. I mean, they want preapproval for so much I always wonder why they don’t just provide their own doctors. Oh wait, they used to have a local UHC clinic, but the doctors quit en masse because they kept having to ask corporate for preapproval.
UnitedHealthcare sucks.
Every time I read about universal health care/coverage, my initial reaction from deep within my psyche is:
UnitedHealthcare sucks.
I know it’s not going to happen, but I would like to see a new term or acronym other than “UHC” for unitedhealthcare I mean universal health care/coverage.
AHC, NHC, GHC? I don’t like the sound of “all-equal healthcare”, but that’s just my opinion. American health care might be better, but only after we fix the system. Right now that would carry all sorts of negative vibes.
I don’t see “Government-run healthcare” appealing to the Jacksonian faction. Also not all universal health care/coverage proposals are government-run.
NHC sounds the best of those three. But there’s also the National Hurricane Center. Hmm.
I don’t know if I could get behind any of these, they sound more like slogans than a classification. #2 and #4 would make for especially good slogans.
And, slightly off topic, “Guaranteed health care for all” reminded me of that Simpsons episode where the aliens run for president. Remember that?
Kang/Bob Dole: “Abortion for all!”
[crowd boos]
Kang/Bob Dole: “Very well, no abortions for anyone!”
[crowd boos]
Kang/Bob Dole: “Hmm, abortion for some and miniature American flags for all.”
[crowd cheers]
Too British, people will say “and see how that worked out for the Brits”.
But I like the NHC abbreviation, for national health coverage or national health care. Maybe we can rename the national hurricane center to the national hurricane and tornado center.
I don’t think there’s any hope in a quest to find an acronym that is not being used somewhere for something else. Acronym Finder lists 48 common meanings for “NHC”, plus another 132 less commonly used.
When I see a car on the road with a TCP (Transportation Charter Permit) sticker on the bumper, I think there must be an Internet outage somewhere and they’re needing to transport the data by car.
I think something closer to “worry-free health care policies” is the direction it needs to go. Not that phrase exactly, but something that contrasts with how wasteful, fickle, and bureaucratic the current patchwork of private health insurers is.
