We hear a lot of talk these days about providing universal medical insurance coverage.  It would be my view that the last thing any human being on this planet needs is Medical Insurance.  What we really need is universal medical CARE!  

Insurance does absolutely nothing but soaking up resources that should be provided to insure healthy living.  It is an excellent vehicle to ensure that the salesmen, lawyers, accountants, bureaucrats and managers achieve a impressive life style.  Meanwhile, the very concept has driven the cost of medical care to unbelievable highs.  This has in turn created a boom market for medical liability insurance, once again rewarding salesmen, lawyers, accountants, bureaucrats and managers at the expense of health care.

The obscene profits available to the drug industry have added the politicians  to the favored group of salesmen, lawyers, accountants, bureaucrats and managers.  With our government bought and paid for, it is no surprise that though, the majority of medical advances are paid for by the public via public universities, the main benefactors are the drug companies.  It is ludicrous to believe that it is in the interests of the public to ban Medicare from negotiating prices for prescription drugs.

And to add insult to injury, prescription drugs that cannot be purchased without the signature of a medical professional, are advertised to the general public via every possible venue.  Which adds the advertising men, and the media people to the favored group of politicians, salesmen, lawyers, accountants, bureaucrats and managers.

Through government intervention, the record keeping, privacy laws and political infighting have lead to involvement by the IT departments, and hence computer hardware and software manufacturers and service providers.  Oh, and did I forget to mention the doctors, nurses, surgeons, and pharmacists that are involved?  In the end it would seem that nearly every one BUT the patient is very happy with the system(?).

No wonder we spend more and more every year for less and less quantity and quality of health care.  Did you ever try to figure out what you were being charged for on a hospital bill?  (One year a hospital that I worked at simply lost $16,000,000.  Wow!)