Where are our health care dollars going?
- Health insurance company profits. (I'm having a very hard time finding estimates of total profit margins for the industry as a whole. Tell me if you know where to look.)
- Health insurance company executive salaries.
- Duplicative administrative costs throughout the industry... which is enough money to cover all uninsured.
- Health insurance company advertising.
- Political donations and lobbying against a system that puts people before profits.
- Blimps 'n stuff!
4 comments:
Hey wait a minute!! Blimps are a highly-efficient way for less than ten people to float above sports stadiums.
LOL Liz! That's a good point.
That's one thing I worry about for when we move back to the States--how in the world will we afford health insurance? That's one thing living somewhere else has done for me; it's made me realize that a different way is entirely possible.
I think I speak for most Americans when I say that obscenely compensated insurance company executives floating in serene comfort in a really cool blimp high above a sports stadium is good return on my health care dollars. I can feel my joints loosening up, and my blood pressure dropping, just thinking about it.
As President Obama said, "We don't have a health care system in America. We have a health care industry."
Here here!
Don't let those self-undermining authoritarian populist goons/henchmen undermine this opportunity to put right the Orwellian nightmare that is our current, nominally "private," corporate-oligarchic health insurance regime.
The skyrocketing costs of care -- an ongoing process in which the insurers are enmeshed -- represents the single greatest impediment to the quality-of-life enjoyed by individual Americans, to the resourcefulness and capacity for innovation of our citizens and the renewed prospect of mobility among socioeconomic classes. The latter otherwise known as the American Dream.
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