The healthcare system as we know it

So this is more my personal view on health care. I come from a nation that provided health care to all its citizens after World War II. That would be the Netherlands. They understood poverty and understood what sharing was all about. As one nation pulled back together it created the fundamental right of each of its citizens to be treated with dignity and respect and be taken care of by any doctor that was available. It has been a system that still stands. I don't see the citizens complaining.

Can America afford not to follow some sort of health care program that does not discriminate against its poor?

And what about Alternatives to all those pain pills on the streets! Kids are taking them from home and sharing stuff we don't even know what the affects are 20 years from now! I personally was on some blood pressure medicine for 10 years! The side affect is you gain weight. Where is the logic of giving someone with heart problems something that makes them gain weight? So 100 pounds later~ I woke up and said what has happened? I took my body in my own hands and went for alternative herbs. My blood pressure is now so low, I don't need those pills and I have lost 40 lbs. What does that say about taking life in your own hands? I put my knee braces on and walk with pain. But heck no pain no gain? Right?

I am thinking as I am treated with a lousy 5 minutes for $85 doctor appointment. How much is that after a full load of patients? Can't they put doctors on a Salary? If government can put a stake in the car industry, it sure had better put a stake in health care for our future will not be able to handle all the baby boomers.

So much to say and yet I don't have all the information to argue a point about health care. Having been a very good customer of the health care field I only have my own issues with it. I know I paid for a few vacations for someone. I know there were operations that could have been avoided. Nothing like a doctor botching your knee up for life.

I suffer from Dementia. So I tend to forget priorities. I move on the moment. Can you be that free? Today I found out I left the stove on all night since noon yesterday. Luckily I had opened the windows for air. It's another day in Paradise! I am alive~!