rfisher
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But health care is a catch 22. Our current structure depends on people using healthcare. That's how those CEOs made billions of dollars in stock options. We need people to spend their income on health care. We want people to be hospitalized (we have management meetings twice a year on exactly how to get people into the hospital). How else are physicians to become millionaires?
But, there is a tipping point. If people spend all their money on say cancer treatment (and look at any bankruptcy lawyer's ads and health care costs are usually listed as number one), then they no longer have money for other things. They may be out of work and how will they earn the money to give to the insurance companies, big pharma, local hospital? If they're too sick, they may die and then what? There is a snake with it's tail in it's mouth. How much can it swallow before it chokes?
How many people can die before the cost becomes too high because of a depletion in the work force, a loss on jobs (if all the poor kids die, where will the teachers trying to get student load relief going to work?). Who and how should they die? Once you make those decisions, the problem is you might be the next rung up the ladder. Do only the Donald Trumps get quality care?
It's easy to point at someone else and say they don't deserve care, but I do. Until the finger is pointing at you.
But, there is a tipping point. If people spend all their money on say cancer treatment (and look at any bankruptcy lawyer's ads and health care costs are usually listed as number one), then they no longer have money for other things. They may be out of work and how will they earn the money to give to the insurance companies, big pharma, local hospital? If they're too sick, they may die and then what? There is a snake with it's tail in it's mouth. How much can it swallow before it chokes?
How many people can die before the cost becomes too high because of a depletion in the work force, a loss on jobs (if all the poor kids die, where will the teachers trying to get student load relief going to work?). Who and how should they die? Once you make those decisions, the problem is you might be the next rung up the ladder. Do only the Donald Trumps get quality care?
It's easy to point at someone else and say they don't deserve care, but I do. Until the finger is pointing at you.
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