Healthcare ---- Another slant on a similar topic

We live in a world of goods and services. We go to work, where we either provide a good or a service and make money so that we can go and consume goods and services. Now when I say consume goods and services I’m talking about everything. I mean the car we buy, the gas we put in our car, the electricity we buy, the food we buy, and all the games we play. We also buy one very important service that people don’t necessarily consider to be a service. It’s healthcare. In many respects it’s the most important service because like the old saying goes, “If you don’t have your health what do you have?” When I got my job part of my compensation that we agreed to was health insurance. I chose to take health insurance as part of my payment for the work that I do at my job. That health insurance helps considerably to offset expenses that I or my family may occur when we need to be seen by a doctor.

Now speaking of doctors. When I was a kid in school I was told that I could be anything I wanted to be when I grew up. It was true to most extents. I didn’t choose to be a doctor but others did and I'm thankful. They took the initiative to go to the schools, pay the incredible expenses for going to those schools, work unbelievably hard in those schools, work ridiculous hours at the hospitals after they got out of those schools, and take the almost unthinkable responsibility for the lives of those they treat and people have the audacity to complain when they get high medical bills? WTH?? The hard truth of the matter is most health problems that doctors treat can be prevented if we only took better care of ourselves. So we go to a doctor because we’re not feeling well. The doctor tells us that we have high cholesterol and blood pressure because we’re not eating right and we don’t get enough exercise. He puts us on medication to get that back under control and tells us that we need to eat better and get more exercise so that we can be more healthy and not have to come see them as often. We then complain when we get the bill for the pills that we’re taking to keep us 6 feet over instead of 6 feet under? We should be thanking the doctor for treating us AND thank the doctor for telling us what we need to do to better ourselves.

Consider doctors mechanics for the body. People will pay a mechanic $75.00 an hour to fix a car they’re paying $400.00 a month on but bitch and cry and raise holy hell at the thought of paying for our own health insurance. I’ve got an idea. Ditch the $400.00 a month car payment and buy $400.00 worth of health insurance for you and your family! That car's not going to do you much good when you’re dead! Remember like that old saying goes, if you don’t have your health what do you have?