By Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel
In a future where a bankrupt government has at long last ceded all power to corporations, none is more powerful than “The Union.”
As companies go, The Union is today’s nightmares writ large — a for-profit health-care company that operates like a mortgage or car loan specialist. What they’re pitching is health, longevity, life itself. The Union makes artificial organs and sells them with a “What’s it going to take to put this pancreas in you?” hustle.
But what happens if you can’t pay your note? They send repo men, armed with tasers and portable field surgery kits to cut that metal-and-plastic heart, lung, liver, what have you, out on the spot. Get in arrears, and they will butcher you.