DJ Rekha, a hip-hop DJ with Reggaeton and Bollywood influences, has a good point. I can ask for affordable health care until I’m blue in the face (and in need of an oxygen mask at the rate of hundreds of dollars), but until a solution is presented that’s both affordable to everyone and profitable to the medical system, there’s likely to not be a whole lot of movement.
Trying to pass legislation that such as universal health care, or even trying to just keep health care the way it is, isn’t going to fly anymore. Compromises need to be made, the good of everyone involved needs to be recognized and kept in mind, and solutions need to find a common ground where everyone will benefit.
One way to ensure success is to let go of outcomes. If you’re so focused on a single outcome, you often will lose touch with the other’s views and you’ll end up just preaching to the choir.
With health care, it’s just as important to focus on business sustainability and profits, as it is to focus on providing affordable solutions to appeal to all those that are concerned with the issue. Letting go of specific outcomes (such as health care for everyone) and working towards common goals (such as affordable, yet competitive health care) will only aid in uniting and conquering.
True, sustainable energy is profitable, but it will never make an industry $40 BILLION in profits in a single quarter like oil. And affordable, accessible health care for all can provide good decent livings for doctors and health care professionals, but it will never be a $400 BILLION a year industry. And it shouldn't be. Sun and wind are renewable and unlimited- hence, they will never be expensive. Health care can only be affordable and available to all (including the sick who need it the most and can get it the least) if it is not geared toward profits.
ReplyDeleteI think on this issue, we really need to focus on an outcome that addresses the problem of health care and not political expediency. A less than adequate solution that bankrupts our country will set the cause back a hundred years. Meanwhile, Mexico has a plan in place for publicly funded, universal healthcare for all by 2011. We are starting to look flat out ridiculous.