Care Taker and the Five Million dollar death.

What a year for The Commander.  Kadizzle's little band has four members.  Cheech the great fashion designer in New York City,  Snoocher Bear the mom, and public relations magnate in Denver,  and the two parents.  This year everyone in the family will undergo surgery except The Commander.  The poor Commander will have to nurse back to health two more before Christmas.

Cheech underwent surgery on her sinus's already and has recovered.  The poor old Bear will have a knee operation shortly,  and Kadizzle is scheduled to have his prostate removed.  Three in one year is taxing, but The Commander is as tough as they come.

All this slicing and dicing will undoubtedly cost well over a hundred thousand before it is all over.  Fortunately we are all covered by insurance, but still the out of pocket expenses hit hard.  It is very sad to know that Americans pay twice what any other civilized country does for health care and gets such a poor return.  Yesterday The Commander, and Kadizzle watched a very good program on American Health care on PBS.  The waste in our system is staggering.

The program featured an elderly woman kept alive on life support.  Her case was hopeless and she should have been allowed to die, but her son insisted she be kept alive.  Her final year of life cost a staggering 5 million dollars.  There is no way this cost will be born by her family.  The poor black woman surely did not live a luxurious life.  Society was unwilling to spend money for her education, her health insurance, her housing,  or any of the normal things that make life better,  but incredibly the same society that did not care for as she lived,  spent five million in one year for her to die.

One can only shake their head and wonder what in the hell is wrong with us.