Thank you Jeanne. I think it is my job to call balls and strikes. It is my job to tell it like it is. I am delighted to hear that you think I have hit the mark.
This is, as I have heard so often, a horror. I am glad you and your wife has you have had Medicare (!!!) to save you from financial ruin. (I'm in Canada where the problems are considerably different.)
Thanks for pointing that out Adam and I agree entirely. If you entirely abandon ethical considerations and allow slick advertisers to target our defenseless children with campaigns to get them hooked on cereals and juices that are loaded with addictive sugar, you are directly producing more diabetes and heart disease earlier in life. Unregulated capitalism is predatory capitalism.
Medical costs in the US are twice what they are in other countries. That takes money away from schools, roads, bridges, law enforcement, food, housing, and national defense. We already have a large national debt. We can fix this and I believe our costs can fall below those in other nations. I will write about that in the next post
Medicare used to be the “Third Rail” if a politician even whispered a word to downgrade or take it away. But now I’m not so sure about that. We will be gaslighted, frightened and persuaded (just like the Covid scam) to give it up for the “common good) or a terrible plan that promises much but gives little. The overlords are cunning and greedy. They are operating out in the open now. I trust little in the health and medical space. I’m old. I probably won’t see where this all ends up but I try to keep out of the clutches of doctor’s offices. I’ve fired a couple. They have done this mistrust to themselves. I pray some of your solutions appear in time.
Very well stated; I certainly agree, but would maybe suggest that, when looking at the economy, we take into consideration the sheer amount of economic inertia dedicated to making us sick - all the dollars, jobs/livelihoods, economic activity (junkfood, liquor, lifestyle, etc, etc) that ends up necessitating the intervention/existence of the healthcare sector. Certainly, as you point out, there is very much that is NOT simply matters of personal accountability - but our vast healthcare spending (addiction?) is a mirror or reaction to an entire economy of pathologies. I know you point this out in other posts, I just feel that it is worth acknowledging here as the way that many Americans consider the economy to be "better" - i.e. cheap & convenient access to goods, particularly the ones that make us sick - is a huge part of the problem?
Very well said. Thank you!
Always great to hear from you
Thank you for telling it like it is. You speak the truth.
Thank you Jeanne. I think it is my job to call balls and strikes. It is my job to tell it like it is. I am delighted to hear that you think I have hit the mark.
This is, as I have heard so often, a horror. I am glad you and your wife has you have had Medicare (!!!) to save you from financial ruin. (I'm in Canada where the problems are considerably different.)
Our costs per person are twice what they are in Canada.
Thanks for pointing that out Adam and I agree entirely. If you entirely abandon ethical considerations and allow slick advertisers to target our defenseless children with campaigns to get them hooked on cereals and juices that are loaded with addictive sugar, you are directly producing more diabetes and heart disease earlier in life. Unregulated capitalism is predatory capitalism.
Medical costs in the US are twice what they are in other countries. That takes money away from schools, roads, bridges, law enforcement, food, housing, and national defense. We already have a large national debt. We can fix this and I believe our costs can fall below those in other nations. I will write about that in the next post
Yup! Incidentally, I share the same thought and anguish!
https://open.substack.com/pub/mcgdoc/p/here-is-an-example-and-our-proof?r=q7iae&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Medicare used to be the “Third Rail” if a politician even whispered a word to downgrade or take it away. But now I’m not so sure about that. We will be gaslighted, frightened and persuaded (just like the Covid scam) to give it up for the “common good) or a terrible plan that promises much but gives little. The overlords are cunning and greedy. They are operating out in the open now. I trust little in the health and medical space. I’m old. I probably won’t see where this all ends up but I try to keep out of the clutches of doctor’s offices. I’ve fired a couple. They have done this mistrust to themselves. I pray some of your solutions appear in time.
Very well stated; I certainly agree, but would maybe suggest that, when looking at the economy, we take into consideration the sheer amount of economic inertia dedicated to making us sick - all the dollars, jobs/livelihoods, economic activity (junkfood, liquor, lifestyle, etc, etc) that ends up necessitating the intervention/existence of the healthcare sector. Certainly, as you point out, there is very much that is NOT simply matters of personal accountability - but our vast healthcare spending (addiction?) is a mirror or reaction to an entire economy of pathologies. I know you point this out in other posts, I just feel that it is worth acknowledging here as the way that many Americans consider the economy to be "better" - i.e. cheap & convenient access to goods, particularly the ones that make us sick - is a huge part of the problem?