Universal Health Care is a Dog!

The munificent governor of California is proposing to cover the health expenses of the entire West Coast contingent, including such eclectic services as the counseling of a certified cleric. Perhaps many of you living in proximity to the Statue of Liberty are also salivating at the thought of FREE MEDICINE given to us by our selfless political leadership.

Having grown up in Moscow Russia, during the heyday of the Universal/ Socialist Society Mother Ship, inhabited by the something for nothing dogs, on the leash of their own parsimonious mentality, permit me a word or two on both the peril and opportunity, as we seek to redesign our model of health care.

On a resent trip back to St. Petersburg, Moscow and Rostov, I was struck by how thin most people who live there are, although now as in the United States, the fast food restaurants are ubiquitous throughout Russia. At first you had to stand on line for hours before you’d sink your teeth into one of those Big McButt Makers, but today as the lines subside, and the industry becomes more aggressive, the balance will begin to shift and the shift is going to hit the fan.

Here is the problem. For the last forty or so years in America, the snack non-food industry, fast-artery-clogging-food industry, sugar (or Lord help us, its substitutes), dead white flour products, sedentary entertainment industries, and that guy who makes the donuts … have been spending billions of dollars, each and every year, enticing our TV watching society to indulge. On the other hand, the entire health care system has been almost exclusively set up to catch us as we fall off the cliff of this insidious, hypno-induced, self inflicted lifestyle choice.

In addition, because our government has virtually eliminated the entrepreneurial, wellness oriented health practitioner, as our leaders continually infringe on the copy righted Universal Healthcare ideas of the German dictator Otto von Bismarck and Vladimir Ilych Lenin the founder of Communism, there is virtually no voice on the other side of the spectrum looking to balance out this disastrous equation.

By itself, the exercise industry is virtually impotent, that’s one reason the last six guys in America whose abs you can still see, are all infomercial super stars, peddling mechanical stairs that go nowhere and irritate the rest of us “normal people”, as we recline the La-Z-Boy a little further, and crack open a fresh box of Entenmann's!

I suppose we should be grateful that the government hasn’t started manufacturing their own cars (the Clinton Prius, the Bush SUV or the Lewinsky Vanquish), and then give them away for free to the poor folk who must unfairly endure public transportation. That however, is exactly what they’ve done with health care. Perhaps that’s why from year to year the cars are becoming safer, faster, more comfortable, more dependable and when compared to the inflation adjusted car prices of similar vehicles made 30 years ago … cheaper. Our health care, as you know, is not yet enjoying such progress.

Isn’t it interesting that we have been taught to maintain our cars yet neglect our health, build nice homes and destroy our bodies, buy the best and latest cell phone on the market yet choose the cheapest doctor on the block. That’s because, the transportation industry, real estate industry and wireless industries all operate in the aerodynamic market driven system of American Capitalism, while our health care is a limping dog pulling the kingly sled of the ever so plump Comrade Carl Marx.

I don’t believe you can imagine what your health can look like, and just how affordable health care can become when you allow the market, another words you and I, to design it.

When I pull a fist full of that green, and most powerful of all voting ballots out of my pocket, I the consumer can design a health care system, that will not focus 99% of its resources into the futile attempts of trying to ransom folks out of hospice, but invest our finite resources in cutting-edge technology, ideas and people that will give us strong, vibrant, aesthetic health, well into our 100’s.

Welcome to the future of Market Driven Health Care.

Alex Lubarsky, CEO
Health Media Group, Inc.
Post Office Box 40
Cedarhurst, NY 11516
www.HealthMedia.us