It doesn’t add up | health care

I haven’t gotten political in a while, after all last year was an election year, so maybe it took me a while to recover.

I might also add that you shouldn’t take me too seriously on politics…these are just my observations.

So the whole health care thing just doesn’t add up. That is to say that the powerful forces that actually drive legislation want nothing to do with a good health care solution.

Track with me for a second on a few observations.

1. The bulk of money that comes into the coffers of Republican politicians is from big business  health care providers and insurance companies. They cannot burn these bridges or they’re out of cash.
2. The biggest contributions to Democrats come from lawyers. The vast majority of the money made in the legal industry is related to health care and medicine.
3. The biggest money maker for big media is drug companies. Watch the evening news on any one of the networks. Literally all but a few of the commercials will be for prescription drugs. I don’t see them going to bat for the American people and risking bad relations with their sugar daddy.

Imagine these three ‘legs‘ forming a tripod and at the top of that tripod is the cost of our health care. As the aforementioned institutions grow, the cost gets higher, and they all grow at pretty much the same rate and feed off each other making affordable health care more and more out of reach to Americans.

One of these has to give and take one for the the American public. I don’t see that happening anytime soon_

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