Something which isn't commonly mentioned in regard to our ridiculously illogical health care situation, is technology. I suggest we limit technology. My suggestion is taboo in our culture.
The high cost of new procedures, machines, and medications affects the price of health care. The development and use of these new technologies are very high priced. And so they do affect the price of our insurance and taxes and Social Security payments.
As is is many people are dying from high prices. Either they have no insurance because they can't afford it, and also can't afford the doctor; or they have insurance but it won't cover their hospitalization, etc.; or the insurance company won't accept them because they're sick. Meanwhile NIH receives extensive funding for the development of new technologies.
We could start by saving all monies spent in universities or the NIH for the development of new scientific "advancement;" and use this money for the cost of curing people who are dying right now due to lack of health care.
We could limit our technology to what has already been developed. In this way we could start to develop health care instead of wealth care.
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Today I went to the dentist and my hygienist asked if I'd like to use their new 'sandblaster' on my teeth. I thought, sure, why wouldn't I want someone to sandblast my teeth with the new technology? Well, it was fine, but I didn't notice much of a difference in the older technology. Then, as I waited 30 minutes to see my dentist for 2 minutes, I sat in my dentist chair that had a tv attached to it so I could watch a CNN news broadcast of George W. Bush talking about nuclear weapons. I'd have to agree, this morning, I didn't need this technology.
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