The Health Care Mess in this Country

Our present health care system is rotten at it’s core. Most of it is driven by money and the ever increasing greed of the companies which run it. Our insurance companies charge increasingly higher fees in their pursuit of their profits. Drug companies are the most greedy entities in the system. They treat us like piggy banks from which they can extract any amount of money they want. They treat people in the USA as nothing more than cash cows. They do this under the guise of companies which are treating the public to the most advanced medical care in the world. We are being sucked into their greedy paws like children running to get free lollipops, but they are even taking the lollipops back.

Our hospitals are always building something even though they cry about a cut in state funding. They spend millions of dollars on new buildings when the money should be going towards patient care. They are to blame for this health care mess as much as the other companies are.

There is a lot of talk about health care and most of the protests are based on ignorance. This discussion about death panels is pretty far fetched. The government has been running two separate health plans for about forty years. Medicaid and Medicare are both government programs and have never been involved in deciding who lives and who dies. These programs have been designed for the benefit of the elderly and those who cannot afford medical insurance at all. As far as I can see these programs have been fairly successful for all those who can use them. This talk on the implementation of new plans run by the government and the supposed dangers of the government running these programs are based purely on the ignorance of people who have money and don't want to part with it.

One good example is the Walton Family. They are the richest family in the world but their charitable nature is nonexistent. Bill Gates looks like a spendthrift in comparison to them. Walmart pays the store clerks very little and urges them to get food stamps and go on Medicaid to get health insurance. You can bet that the executives and board get the best health insurance money can buy. But their stingy nature does not extend to those outside the executive branch. A lot of their goods are manufactured outside of the country in third world nations which do not have minimum pay rates.