Health Care Part II
Almost 50 million people in the U.S. have no health insurance because they can’t afford it. They’re self-employed, or their employer can’t or won’t cover them. For decades the price of health insurance has risen exorbitantly with no end in sight.If you are lucky enough to somehow stumble through life for 65 years, then you are rewarded with Medicare (publicly -funded health insurance). Before President Johnson (D) signed this program into existence in the 1960s, all you got was a gold watch (maybe).
Why the ongoing exploding costs in health care? No real containment of costs at the Medicare end of things is one pivitol reason. The health care industry’s new-product development and marketing creates a never ending demand that Medicare picks up. Couple that with AARP’s marketing campaign that essentially bombards our retirees with the message, “You’re never really old, even if you’re ancient.”
We hear about new and wondrous things such as gene mapping and splicing, stem cell treatments, limb regeneration, and so on. The implications are that these wonderful things will all be mainstreamed to the masses and we’ll all live much longer lives and probably be diving off the cliffs of Acapulco at 85. Joint replacement and organ transplants are already old hat. Who is paying for all this stuff? What’s the ultimate price if this progresses to the point wher all elderly human beings are ultimately cloned with the last step being to upload the information from their brains into the clone and then cremated the old and decidedly used “former self”. The propaganda machine has decided that this bloated mess of a health-care system is in trouble because of those slackers who aren’t insured even though they’re paying taxes to finance this Medicare excess. Hillary and others want to make it illegal not to have insurance. Used to be all we had to do was “pay taxes and die.” Some politicians want that changed to “all you have to do is pay taxes, buy health insurance, and die.”
Don’t get sick before 65 sums it up pretty well now.Ideas like this will not make Hillary our next president.
