The Cost of Health Ignorance

With 4897 hospitals http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?ind=394&cat=8&rgn=1 in America one would have to believe that each administration will have over $100,000,000.00 in unpaid bills ($489,700,000,000.00) over the next 10 year just to put a dent in the healthcare reform bill making its way through Congress. Yet, seeing that many of these facilities are already paid for and has been equipped over the last 30 years at the Taxpayers Expense I am amazed that a simple Google search will not allow me to access the Average Annual Hospital Budget or the projected needs of the Medical Staff. In fact, other than knowing that the Health and Medical Leaders are calling for more money to provide procedures and services that they already refute as unnecessary or unable to fund or keep paying out million dollar bonuses I haven’t heard even one good reason why America needs more hospitals or medical facilities.

Yet, here we are ready to spend almost another $ 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years up and beyond the billions all ready slated to be spent on a single sector of society and still that is not good enough for the loyal opposition to President Obama and the American Public. So, instead of calling for boycotts, strikes, and other civil disobedient I wonder how much more the Americans Corporations are willing to give up before they drop the hammer. Because why just a few years ago the Health and Medical Industry had less than 1/6^th of the Economy, I wonder if the Barons of Medicine will even stop until they own 100% of the Market. Especially since one can make the argument that it will take the entire Workforce to deal with the Retirement of the Baby Boomers.

Thus, the Members of Congress and the other Special Interest Groups need to take a moment and THINK! For why does the same simple medical procedure that cost $1,000.00 in 1999 now seem to cost $3,000.00 with a projected increase to over $6,000.00? Could it be that new breakthroughs have lowered the costs? How about a new pill that eliminates the medical procedure altogether? No, well other than Profits and Big Bonuses to the Top Management how much of the new funds will go to increase the pay of the Medical Staff? Yes, the Healthcare System in America is full of abuse by everyone; nevertheless, the idea that we can throw more money at the problem without demanding change from the top to the bottom is just in my opinion kicking the health crisis down the road.

So why I realize it is hard for most Americans to understand that the Health and Medical Industry are taking in more money than the Consumers, Small Business Owners, and Taxpayers can afford even if you consider their lifetime payments. Short of mandating price and taking away the Health Administrations’ Tax Deductions what other pressure can be put on these Private Businesses seeing that the Oil Companies attempted the same thing a few years ago.

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