Fixing American Health Care Now

Here's what I think about Health Care in the United States.

Everybody should stop paying for Health Insurance.

Everybody!

Insurance companies get what they want ... profit.

Insured people receive partial health care at a high cost because there are deductibles to be met meaning we have to pay first before the Insurance Company does ... does that seem right?

Now, on the other hand, people who don't pay for Health Insurance go to the Hospital when they get sick, shot, overdose, crash the car or suffocate during sex and receive the exact same health care the people who are buying Health Insurance receive.

At least initially.

People without Health Insurance don't get any follow up care ... meaning they have to create another Emergency to be seen again ... which they do ... because it's free.

Hospitals raise their prices, passes them on to the Health Insurance Companies, who raise their fees and people who pay for Health Care PAY MORE to cover the cost of those who don't pay.

Doctors completely understand this and most only provide care once it is completely clear they will be paid.

An addendum was added to "The Hippocratic Oath" ... really an asterisk followed by really tiny print ... that reads, "Once payment is received in full."

It's a stupid, unjust system!

Let's blow it up!

If everyone stops buying Health Insurance, there's a substantial cash flow created for things like vacations, eating out more or fixing the leaky old bathtub in your house.

If you get sick, just go to the Emergency Room, receive the same treatment you have anyway, and go home and take a long bath in your new luxury tub so you're well rested for your trip to Belize.

Hospitals will go nuts, of course, because they will no longer be able to pay for the mini-shopping malls with gourmet coffee areas or ridiculously high Executive salaries they have now.

Doctors will scream bloody murder but it'll be immediately clear why they chose to practice medicine.

And Health Insurance companies will go out of business.

And who really gives a Fu*K about Pharmaceutical Companies?

It's a Win/Win if there ever was one!

What got me thinking about this was this week's closing of the Oceanside Nursing Home on Tybee Island where I'd spend a few years trying to bring cheer to the patients with weekly concerts.

It closed this week because it wasn't profitable and gave everybody "A DAY'S" notice to move.

That's Health Care in America.

Make a profit or else.

Do some nice stuff on the side to show people it's not really all about the money.

But the truth is ... it's all about the money.

It's time to change all that.

Just ask the people today who have no place to go.