Our healthcare mess is killing us. "Just say no" to Obamacare (which is at least an imperfect attempt to a solution) without offering any constructive alternative is not an answer.
Originally Posted by jackfengshui
Goddamn straight.
One aspect that has to be addressed is the extremely delusional over-emphasis on education. Education is important for everyone, but the idea that everyone deserves or needs one is wrong, at least a formal one. And it considerably over-priced. this is a factor in health care, Little Joey that made good on coming from the ghetto to become a doc is behind the 8-ball straight out of the box with education loans.
Part of that university high cost takes us to sports. Why? To pay football and basketball coaches millions, to, in the case of the intolerably bullshit Boeheim, and many like him, contribute a pathetic graduation rate. This carries into the pros, where miscreants are paid millions and are well cared for health wise (fuck off junior Seau you knew what you were into) yet there just isn't enough money to care for everyone, we have to rebuild Drew Brees' knee so he can help the NFLPA strike for more money.
These universities mis-spend a huge amount of their money. In Colorado last summer, they spent $25k on a movie theatre shooting spree. I know of a UB employee who gets full family health care from the hubby while the wife pulls six figures in pharma. Oh sweet irony! It seems like that shouldn't be wrong but the same university, while looking at admissions, will deny tuition assistance to well off parents. Maybe they could ask them to pay a little premium for health care?
Its an incomplete rant, but I can't go on, there's too much, my point is that it is pervasive. Constructive solution, I say we need some destructive analysis. Tear some shit apart and rebuild. We're smart enough.
I will say the doctors of the world need to step up. If they are benevolent, they couldn't be okay with a system that has them provide care and then let some douchebag in a cubicle thousands of miles away determine if that care was necessary and to what extent. Grab Drew Brees and make a stand for decency.
The problem is health insurance, but the need is health care. My constructive solution is to cease the insurance and provide the care.