Eliminate "luxury commodity" model of health care delivery, make it "public utility/necessity"

[whizzbangK.C.1 (Marvin E. Bennett Jr.)]

We all know health care in this country is extremely expensive on a per-person basis. We also know (if we’ve been paying attention at all) that workers in the health care system are being compensated less and less as time goes by. This is at all levels from custodians to orderlies, nurses, doctors and on up the chain. The “insurance” companies who run the system are making record profits while the rest of us suffer. I believe the root cause of this is that we allow health care to be marketed as a luxury commodity with an unlimited profit incentive to those who control it, the insurance companies. It should be run as a public utility like water, power, gas, and roads. The public utility model insures that everyone involved makes a fair living, but controls the overall cost and quality of the product by oversight. The fact that we have a few insurance companies, who have invested in controlling interests in pharmaceutical companies, distribution companies, hospitals, physicians groups and all other aspects of the health system and use that control to manipulate the entire system to funnel every possible penny of profit to the top needs to change.