Like the kid who sees the emperor with no clothes on, please allow this tiny bit of trolldom. MOST people don’t get really sick, and usually like to spend their money elsewhere. But when they do get sick, they either have a nice job with ‘benefits’ (the current euphemism) or they start looking for some free hand – out. Politicians, ever eager to buy votes, cater to this desire with the added bonus they can tap into the largest pool of campaign cash available, the lobbying efforts of the AMA insurance industry and others. The medical monopoly has driven these costs to astronomical heights by offering us one standard of service – the super duper Rolls Royce and nothing else. Just look at the efforts of Oregon to prioritize their health care service – shot down in Congress courtesy of the ever present controlling hand of the monopoly.
Break up the monopoly – drive down medical costs. Like the trucking industry and the airlines, that must be the first step. This is the step the whole industry most fears, so it never gets discussed. It’s Orwellian.
Like the the gun nut who will never allow the government to pry his hand from his handgun, I am never going to allow the government to steal from me so they can pay for the huge buildings filled with beaurocrats, the fat lady at Walmart riding her rambler, the precious young thing practicing his risky ‘alternate lifestyle’, the demented 90 year old kept alive at any cost.
