During the last couple years I have heard about the sick state of our health care in this country from all the elections business and the health care bill. I seen those people stand in line and the microphone and telling the sad family stories. In the last six months with my brother's cancer I have seen some of this first hand.
My feeling is that as a country we have decided that good health is the privilege of the wealthy. It is not a right of average citizen. The good religious view that God blessed the rich and the rest were not blessed by God so they are just left out. It is about being worthy of more because you are of the wealthy class. A child born into a household of means is cared for in sickness better, the price of care makes it so.
The individuals of both political parties that govern us at all federal and some state levels are holding their positions of because of insurance companies, the drug companies and the high tech medical companies. They dream up imaginary systems of holding back service by using words like 'observation' version 'admitting to the hospital' or drug availability defined by the 'donut hole'. These are short hand for corruption of the system. Or the most classic in the world, pass a bill in Washington, D.C. for all the citizens in the country but do not tax to pay for it, let the individual state fund the bill.
The media has done a wonderful job of telling us we have the best care in the world. None of the world organizations prove this out. Our number in the developed world are mostly the lowest. Now if we were a medieval society or a banana republic our number would make sense.
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