Though in other countries that have implanted Healthcare systems crossing the borders of time and space, it seems to some extent they have worked out the kinks in whatever it was that they were looking for at the time of "Conception". Was there "Life in Them There Hills" at that intersection of Kismet and Serendipity or was the guile of the moment just one to derive some formative conclusions?
Letting go of those erroneous and ethereal beginnings to this prognosis of the Healthcare System in these United States, I bid you long life and peace and by all means, prosper if you can, as Spock would, I think in joyous rebellion utter. I am here to just make a few Hokey Pokey remarks since I am personally involved now with the incongruity of the nature of the Beast in question.
Now a while back one of my friends had a particular surgery, and I can't go into detail, or I would have to "Kill You", as if the bill after the session wouldn't, as a snort, snicker, wheez and a few proverbial Guffaws scatter themselves verbally in the background. On this occasion, since he was covered by a government medical benefit contract, the bill for his room was 25,000 dollars, of which he co-paid 1600 dollars, USD. Then of course the going rate for his surgery was 1350 dollars for the surgeon and 350 dollars for the anesthesiologist.
In my case, not having government or any other form of coverage, paying cash, up front, the room for the surgery was a mere 3468 dollars and some odd sense. The same formality was true of the cost of the surgeon and the anesthesiologist. So herein lies the conundrum. First, whether or not you are between jobs, or whether or not your employer deems it necessary to provide you with healthcare coverage or not, there should be exchanges, State, Federal, Local, whatever that allow, through competition, to provide individual participants or owners of said healthcare at a reasonable cost. Single payer, as it were, as I understand it, not a mandate. Though I truly believe, like everything else like house insurance, car insurance, and other such maladies in some people's mind takes the freeloaders off of the charts, lowers the cost of catastrophic healthcare as opposed to preventative, and gives everyone some freedom to allow themselves from the thoughts of bankruptcy because of an onslaught of a particularly nasty disease.
I do not wish to apologize to those who feel it is an added tax or burden on their livelihoods, or the behemoth of Federal Government interrupting their free enterprising or capitalistic lives by shoving socialism down their thoughts, but everyone must bear the burden of Democracy and be individually responsible for their health. You don't have to use it, but for the sake of all who enjoy the perks of being an American, and being part of a democratic society, you do have to participate, whether you use your vote or not. T.S. or W.T.F. and over and out.
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