Medical Malpractice

Over the last good many years as the industrial medical complex has been blowing up its bubble, I've been observing people complaining about their pains, ailments, and worries about their healthcare. Really all this negative talk is making things much worse for them psychologically. It's as if half our population has turned into a bunch of hypochondriacs.

As far as I am concerned our healthcare sector has a growing problem and our citizens have a going problem - that is to say they are going to the doctor's offices far too often, and all this is costing us 100s of billions of dollars in unneeded treatments, pharmaceuticals, and visits. Let's discuss all this shall we?

You cannot watch TV for more than 30-minutes without seeing an advertisement for pharmaceuticals, unless it is prime time election season and in that case the political ads are busy talking about your health, the failures of the system, or using scare tactics as to what "might" happen to you and your family if you don't elect them. Wouldn't it be nice if they just stopped reminding us of all the doom and gloom scenarios? I'm getting sick - of it myself.

Everyone is running around worried about their health, as if nothing else matters, and yes, it is a huge industry and it accounts for a huge percentage of our GDP, and millions of jobs, but our population has become a mass mob of hypochondriacs. All of these folks have joined together in their negative talk, it's as if misery is loving the company and the companies running the healthcare sector are soaking in a massive flow of money from the government.

Meanwhile, the companies in the medical healthcare industrial complex are coaxing and patients to come and more often, and doctors are practicing defensive medicine due to the lawyers which are making a ton of money suing the doctors for malpractice, some of which may be deserved from time to time, and the insurance companies are raising rates and making a ton of money also. About the only people that aren't making money on this, is all of the citizens who are paying incredible premiums for their healthcare insurance. They didn't go down like we were promised with ObamaCare, all they've been doing is going skyward.

To top it all off, just about everyone is involved in a feeding frenzy trying to get all the services they can for fear that those services may disappear one day. Most of these folks are talking themselves into illnesses that they don't actually have, and now they are taking drugs and requesting drugs, demanding the doctors give them those drugs because they saw an ad on TV. Maybe everyone just needs to take a chill pill, hopefully made of sugar, and then they can think everything will be all better, because we can't afford this anymore. Please consider all this and think on it.