13 September 2006

Op.-Ed.: Health and Wealth.

Weekly comment for potential printing in editorial pages of local periodical:

Perhaps it is too utopian of anyone to believe that any man or woman who honestly works hard, provides funds for their family to purchase both needed and desired provisions, and seeks to better themself through education in its many forms should receive access to affordable, portable, efficient, and quality healthcare. Those individuals that can afford such care typically have annual check ups, report mild or moderate concerns or changes immediately, and concern themselves with living a mostly-healthy style of living.

After all, if everyone lived with such concern for themselves, and had equal access to health professionals ready and prepared to attend to them, and overcame the fear to rework a failing system into one no longer run by the legions of poltroons that balk at the first hint of change, how healthy of a country would the United States become?