Once upon a time, the medical profession was one of high regard. Doctors actually made house-calls and knew their patients by their name. Those days are long gone. Now it’s all an insurance game and one, like in Vegas, the house always wins.

Health insurance companies hold a strong monopoly which they will never release. Unlike auto insurance that you can purchase anywhere, only a select number of heath insurance companies are permitted to sell policies in any state. When there is no competition, there is no need to reduce costs. Or increase service. If anything thinks the government can reform the system, they created, their living in a fantasy.

We have a free clinic here where medical professionals volunteer their time to administer simple care to the uninsured . If they have an opening, it will be several months for you to make an appointment. The waiting room is packed, and you’ll spend 3 hours or more waiting to see a doctor, or a nurse, who will take as little time as necessary to do a routine exam. This is government health care.

The pharmaceutical companies spend millions on television ads for their prescriptions, with the tag line “ask your doctor”. If your doctor needs YOU to ask him about a medication, you need to find another doctor. With the cost of prescription drugs going through the roof, you would think the drug companies could find better use of their profits then spending them on ads.

The health care debate has been going on since Richard Nixon. Like the weather, everyone has something to say, but there is very little that anyone can, or is able to do. So why even bother? There are some battles that are lost before they begin. The insurance companies will always control who gets care and how much as long as the medical profession demands payment for their service. Malpractice insurance premiums are through the roof. Human life is a commodity, not worth very much to the industry that is making billions off the misery of others.

To reform health care, you have to reform basic human greed and that is something that no one, not even a Nobel Peace Prize winner,  is capable of accomplishing.