Following the shooting of a health insurance company CEO, the knives have come out, with many expressing glee at his demise. Any cost-cutting measures instituted by insurance companies are savagely attacked as mere greed on the industry's part. While "greed" may indeed play a part in all this, what is being ignored is the other side of the health care coin. If greed is the face side, the obverse is the fact that as a population we are one sick bunch of puppies and rapidly getting sicker, who need ever more medical interventions to combat the epidemic of obesity and all its attendant, debilitating, and expensive auto-immune conditions.
On top of that, the general population is far more interested in popping one pill after another than changing lifestyles, lazy mofos that we are. It's as if we have some divine right to eat whatever the frack we want to, in any quantity, of any type of food, soak in alcohol, smoke like chimneys, and then blithely expect the health care system to bail us out of the consequences of the manifest idiocy of our lifestyles. The gummint, and the medical establishment in general, is no help at all in combating this, and in fact with their idiotic carb heavy food "pyramid" they are contributing to the problem not alleviating it.
And now? Well, now they have a pill for obesity so let's pop that sucker so we will not want to eat quite as much garbage food as we normally do. Problem solved!. Party on dudes and dudettes. Time to live to eat instead of eating to live. Lemme at those donuts, fries, pastries, tater chips, Cap'n Crunchy, ice cream, brewskis, peanut butter, bananas, bread, etc. etc. unto a google of etcs. But not to worry. Your new expensive pill will make you want to eat less of all that sugar saturated dreck. Win win eh?
Sadly, and tragically, "health care" these days is largely about rewarding bad nutritional and lifestyle behavior, because heaven forbid we should exercise some restraint ourselves, so let's make a drug that will save us from our dietary malfeasance. The preferred medical system solution to not having to wrestle with a recalcitrant lazy carb-addled population is the expedient of prescribing ever more side-effect laden and expensive pharmaceuticals. This will not end well, depend on it. It is in fact already not ending well for most of our population.
Complaining and carping about high medical insurance costs is simply not going to change the fact that the large majority of our current auto-immune epidemic is our own damn fault. In this area of life, we are our own worst enemy. The increasingly expensive hyper-demand for "health care" is our own doing, and at some point it will collapse under the weight of the wretched food we eat. Party on.
