The SoSA Perspective

Another inevitability

Why do you suppose our fearless leaders can’t bring themselves to do things that they will inevitably be forced to do? For instance, we have nearly 50 million people in this country without health care because they can’t afford insurance. We have another very large number of people who have lousy health care because the insurance they can afford is basically a rip off.

So ask yourself, ‘are we going to allow people to die of treatable diseases on the doorstep of the hospital?’. The answer is obviously, no. That means we’re going to have health care for everyone, whether they can afford it or not. The only question is; how’s the best way to do it?

Because our leaders won’t face up to the above stated reality, we are relegated to suffering the worst, stupidest universal health care system imaginable. The fact is, everyone in this country has access to health care. Our present system calls for treating those who can’t afford to pay at our emergency rooms when their illnesses reach crisis proportions. That way we wind up maximizing the suffering of poor individuals and insuring that they receive the most expensive possible treatment but only after allowing the illness a chance to get as serious as it possibly can! The unpaid bill gets forwarded to the rest of us who can afford insurance (for a while longer we hope) and, one assumes, the only party to go home happy is the insurance company. Surely we can do better than this and for my money it’s high time we insisted on it.