Chubby Nickel Audio Vlog

Whenever the U.S. government saw something that people can’t live without get out of hand, people in the government stepped in on behalf of the people. Water, electricity and phones are all good examples… of course gas is a bad example. Our society cannot survive without the water that pumps into your houses and gets flushed away or the electricity that keeps your water heater, fridge, air conditioning and heat on… well some people can survive but the amount of people that this country supports could not be supplied with potable water without the government regulated system. Since people cannot live without water, it would be profitable to keep raising prices and without someone to speak out for the people, we all (well all us not wealthy people), would be suffering for people to just make a profit.

What does this have to do with health care? Well we have all been living much longer than we would have without our medical advances, many people that contribute to society would be dead by 30, and hardly any of them surviving to 60. With this increased age, we are all experiencing the side effects of living longer by showing many health problems that just wouldn’t there if you were dead by now. The short answer is that we need health care to live, just as we need potable water and electricity. Should we not as a people be demanding that like other basic needs, the need to live should have advocates and regulations to ensure that all of us can have it?
Social programs do not a socialist empire make. Just because a nation has social programs, it doesn’t mean that the country is socialist. Just like when a country has capitalistic programs it doesn’t make the country capitalistic. The problem is that we are all a part of this society, this society that makes us all interdependent on each other in so many complex ways. So let’s try to think of it in basic terms: we do not all hunt for food for ourselves, we do not all farm for ourselves, we do not all fetch water for ourselves and we do not all build our own houses. That means we are all dependent on other people to play their part in our society, that also means that other people are dependent on you. If you want to reap the rewards of our society, then you should be expected to reward others as well.  The everyone can help themselves attitude is not what built our society to this point, it only hurts society… and by proxy, you. Unless you’re very rich.

The truth is that we all need to help each other so that other people can help us. When a factory worker gets injured, we lose that piece of society until they come back to work. If that factory worker can’t afford to get better in order to get back to work, then we lose that piece of society permanently. We lose that person’s ability to spend money, the products that person was working on… pretty much everything that person was contributing to society. Let’s say the cost to get that person back is a $50,000 surgery… sounds like a lot, but this person was making $40,000 a year. Now the factory worker wouldn’t be able to pay the medical bill straight up, but his contributions to society are about the same as his wages, so he will pay society back in less than two years… if he/she can work. So I see a one time surgery of $50,000 a bargain in the long term.