America doesn’t have a health-care crisis, it has a health-care famine. And it could be getting worse. Universal medical insurance would cause too many to be trying to get appointments and treatment. Too many people would be competing for a scarce resource ? the time of a doctor. In the biblical story of Joseph, he predicted seven years of plenty and seven years of famine. When famine came, he was prepared with food. His brothers, who sold him into slavery, begged him for grain and Joseph gave them grain. Many Americans are like Joseph’s brothers in the famine, begging for health care. But for America, there is no Joseph.
There is only the debunked medical industry that leaves so many uninsured or struggling to pay for treatment. America is in a medical care famine. A famine never affects everyone equally. The have-nots become the have-nothings while the haves become the have-barely-enough’s. The wealthy survive, as always, even thrive. America’s medical care famine is not new, but has been building for years. The price of America’s privately run, profit-driven medical industry has caused this famine.
About one-third of every dollar going to health care pays for administrative costs. Money that is not going towards treating the sick or nurturing health people, but running the health insurance industry, but rather for billing clerks, coding clerks, CEO bonuses, sales managers, and advertising. The famine has expanded while insurance companies charger higher premiums and reduce coverage, while employers increase deductibles, while legislators reduce Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program budgets, etc. America’s health care famine kills more than 20,000 people each year because they cannot afford the price of medical insurance. Who will stop the health care famine?
