Maybe There is Hope

A couple of our married friends came over the other night to have a glass of wine. Both will soon be retired. The topic of health care came up. Most people don't take the health care crises in this country seriously when they are working, and daddy company pays the bills, but when the insurance is turned over to the retired employee reality hits. The big surge is starting with the baby boomers and reality is going to strike. Just scratching the surface of the mess we have in the United States you can see how the whole system has been rigged in favor of the special interest. What the drug companies alone have done with the help of the Republicans is one of the most blatant ripoffs imaginable. The New York Times has a good editorial today on the subject. The one figure that keeps sticking in my mind is the fact that as a country we are ranked number thirteen in the industrialized world, while we pay at least twice as much for health care as the twelve countries that are ahead of us.