Because health is your most valuable Big D!ck Asset.
Health is something we only think about when we’ve lost it. It’s not fun. It’s not sexy. And unfortunately, sometimes you have to lose your health to value your health.
Healthcare is a complicated problem. No one in either political party, the healthcare or insurance industries really knows exactly what to do to create more affordable healthcare for more people. There isn’t a sound bite solution. It’s scary if we do nothing. It’s scary if we make a change.
Option One: Do Nothing
If you like what you have and you’re scared you’ll get less with a change, newsflash: Unless you’re part of the BD Billionaire Club, you know, a Warren Buffet type, you will get less healthcare for your money in the very near future. Companies can’t afford the projected insurance rate increases. Erin Burnett, from MSNBC, has said on-air several times, that 30% of large companies are planning to employ fewer people because of rising healthcare costs. You might not even have your job much less your health insurance.
Even if you think this is the calling card to give President Obama a Big D!ck Political Loss, do you want to do it at the expense of your loved ones healthcare needs?
Option Two: Change
But to what? I’ve pondered this for years (I worked in healthcare at one time) and in my humble opinion it’s multi-pronged.
For every dollar that insurance companies pay in dividends and for bonuses it’s a dollar that doesn’t go towards helping someone get well. If you think that someone at your health insurance company isn’t evaluating who gets treatment and who doesn’t, you’re naive.
Why do you think the major insurance companies are so against one of the consumer choices being a public plan or non-profit insurance option? Just think, they believe it’s more cost-effective for them to spend billions of dollars to lobby against choices that don’t include dividends, perks and bonuses at the expense of someone’s health than to lose this Big D!ck Contest and have to compete. That’s not capitalism. That’s legislative corporate protectionism.
We have to look at cost savings. If you’ve ever had a procedure done, you know that you get bills for months from people and labs that you’ve never heard of or seen. You know the costs of the same procedures are like the prices of a seat on an airplane. Some people pay below costs and others are overcharged.
Doctors need to decide if they only want to be in a profession to make people healthy or to make Big D!ck Dollars. If they only want the dollars, they need to consider jobs on Wall Street.
Can we reduce the costs of medical school? This would encourage more people to become doctors who are interested in healing people and less interested in their BD Status.
You can’t ignore tort reform. If a mistake is made and your loved dies, well, a million or twenty million dollars doesn’t bring them back. And retail therapy at the expense of everyone is only so valuable. But you can’t cap awards for legitimate mistakes to the point that if a mistake is made that someone must live with, they aren’t compensated for the extra life-long expenses or loss of income they will incur. Doctors and hospitals need to have consequences for negligence to encourage competence.
And yes, everyone should have some type of health insurance just like they have to have car insurance. Those who are uninsured cost everyone. But you have to make it possible for everyone to be insured at an affordable cost.
We need to reward healthy behaviors. There are stories of the 20 year old runner with a healthy lifestyle having a heart attach. But there are more stories of people choosing unhealthy lifestyles: obesity, tobacco use, or not managing stress having health problems. We need to focus on healthy lifestyles.
Yes, our healthcare system is going to change. We’re not going to like all of the changes. We’re going to spend more personal and public dollars on it. Those are facts that we can’t change. But what we can change is the how the money is spent. Will we spend it on dividends, perks and bonuses? Or will we spend dollars on improving healthcare delivery and outcomes?
The Big D!ck Contest of Health, and therefore healthcare, is personal to everyone. It shouldn’t be partisan. It shouldn’t be about profit. It should be about quality care and actual health. And everyone needs to care and participate in this debate. It may be your health that’s being impacted.
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