What is more important than your health?
To many, the answer is that nothing is more important.
Yet, when it comes down to addressing the health of others, the answer drastically changes.
The idea that a person should be able to afford to live a healthy life, is replaced by the hateful rhetoric that nothing in life is free.
Thoughts and prayers replace actions that assist others in difficult situations. The idea that some people are far less off than others, is pushed aside by greed, hate, and a lack of empathy.
Health care is an enormously large and complex industry. It is no wonder that the costs associated with most branches within it are extremely expensive. The costs associated to invent, develop, and produce new drugs is very, very high. The costs associated with managing a hospital is extremely expensive.
In the world of medicine, the cost to save a life, extend a persons well being, or comfort people from pain and suffering cost a lot of money. Most people that are not extremely wealthy could not afford most of the medical care and medicine they, or a loved one they are responsible for, need to live a healthy life.
For many years, before health care insurance was even thought of, people got sick and died from diseases and viruses that have since been removed due to the medical sciences development of vaccines.
For many years, before health care insurance was even thought of, people were injured from accidents and harmful acts which ended their life or altered their physical capabilities, that have since been addressed via new medical techniques and equipment which allows people to live a healthy life upon recovery.
For many years, before health care insurance was even thought of, people suffered and died from ailments associated with genetic disorders, that have since been discovered and addressed in ways that mankind could never have imagined in the past.
All that means nothing to anyone that has been fortunate enough to not either needed it, or knows and cares about someone that needed it. Although, in this day and age, I cannot imagine many could ever be so fortunate.
In any case, based on what we know now is available to help people medically, the idea that the government wouldn’t make affordable health insurance available to anyone and everyone is reprehensible.
I know that that truth behind this argument lies in the words affordable and available. You see, what is affordable may not be available at all, and what is available may not be affordable to all.
Those fortunate enough to have their employer pay for the healthcare insurance, as part of an agreed to or provided benefit of employment, can count themselves lucky to have it.
Those that rely on having to purchase their health insurance coverage, often are required to make very tough decisions that are almost always linked to affordability and availability. For some, actually far too many, there really is no decision to be made. They cannot afford health care medical insurance of any kind, at any cost, due to their financial reality.
This should not be, and most likely is not, a surprise to the people that have been elected to represent the electorate from each state and territory in America. The reality is that political power and decision making for many, only matters long enough to get themselves elected, forgetting that many within their political party may rely on affordable health care insurance, medical treatment, drugs and medicine.
Some have convinced those very same people that elected them, that their insurance will remain affordable and that others less fortunate don’t deserve that same opportunity for available and affordable health care insurance. They instead focus their talking points on “illegal immigrants getting free insurance”, making the whole argument take on a hateful “them vs. us” mentality.
The fact is, that politicians love to twist words and often misuse them, to influence others into agreeing with them.
The issue of the availability of affordable medical healthcare insurance coverage is critically important and those representing us should coming up with a reasonable, and universally accepted, response to finding a way to do it. They should not be politically motivated by far right or far left ideologies, and focus on what is best for everyone.
The real reason that politicians don’t want this, is most likely money related. How much money is lobbyist throwing at them?
Votes get you in, Money keeps you in.
Perhaps the real reason lies behind the curtain. Is there no one brave enough to look beyond the influence of money and share the answer?
Ruminati 