A Simple Look at Health Care

I think a lot of people are over thinking this whole Health Care Reform thing. First of all, what they are proposing doesn’t ‘reform’ health care; it’s more like Washington telling us that we will have it. Let’s think about the whole health care debacle.

First let’s look at these 3o million people without health care. I feel that they can all be lumped into three groups of people. Group 1 – “I don’t want health care, because I want to save that money and use it on something else”. Group 2 – “I can’t afford health care, because of one or more various reasons that I have caused such as mismanagement of my money or low income”. Group 3 – “I use to have health care, but I lost my job and the COBRA is too high to carry over”.

Solutions – Group 1, great, glad you’re making it, just make sure you are not on other government programs as well. Have a great life; enjoy your ‘stuff’. You appear to be producers and keep up the good work. However, when you arrive at the ER, understand that you are obligated to pay that bill.

Group 3 – Well, here is an area that the Government can really be of use. Let’s get the economy back up and running. Stop taxing “big business” thinking that you are punishing them for being big business and not sharing. When you tax big business, THAT is what they share by increasing the price of what we all pay for. There is not a business on the face of the Earth that absorbs the cost of taxes out of the goodness of their heart. They all pass it on. Lowering these taxes and other cost of doing business would get this Group 3 back to work. In the meantime Group 3, you will have to tighten your belt. It may be time to look at reducing your cost profile until something comes through for you. Good luck, we are all pulling for you.

Group 2 – this is the complicated group. It’s made up of a vast array of people. You have the elderly, who really do need our help and we should give it to them. You also have low income people who are happy with making just enough to get by (not including health care cost) and do not strive to do any better for themselves. These people are moochers and live partially or totally off the system. They need to get off their duff and make a better life for themselves. This group also contains the people who are in this country illegally. They don’t have insurance partly because they don’t want to be on the radar; however they want to get the best care on the face of the Earth. They just don’t want to pay for it. Instead they would rather choose to send their money back to their home country where it is worth a ton to their family. Piss off! You’re a moocher too and should go home. Yes, they do jobs that others might not. But our economy shouldn’t be in the position that we rely so heavily on this demographic. This group also contains the homeless, who may have moved here from Group 3 at some point. Tragic, and should be dealt with. However I have met a lot of homeless people who are perfectly happy standing on the corner with their cardboard signs begging for money to buy their alcohol and drugs and maybe a meal. By the way, eat lunch in one of these areas one day in your vehicle and watch them. When there is no traffic around to beg from, they take out their cell phones and talk on them. Real classy these types are. You’re a moocher too in the whole sense of the word; get a job with the Group 3 people.

All of this drain on the system, people not paying for services received at a Doctor or hospital is what has lead to the high cost, that is now being passed on to us and making our health care system look like it’s out of control. However, it’s no different than those taxes I was talking about. Why should a free market system be expected to absorb the cost of the loafers in this world and not pass them on to us, the producers of this world? They shouldn’t, and if you were in business you wouldn’t absorb it either.

The Obama/Democrat plan is going to do more of the same that we already have. Provide care for people that have abilities, yet make a conscious decision to not provide for themselves. For all other cases, those like the elderly, we should look out for them.

PS – I am sure that this will not be a popular post with me liberal friends since they are so willing to give away everyones money. So for you I ask this, are you ready to show me just how much extra you kicked in on your taxes last year, or the last 5 years, to pay for the discouraged and downtrodden? Until then, don’t complain.