U.S. Health Care: Truth Be Told

There is something that all American politicians just don't want to tell you, because they don't even want to tell it to themselves when they look in the mirror: they are the problem, stupid.

Specifically, they are the problem with one of the United States' biggest societal problems: health care.

Untold numbers of Americans are outraged that there are nearly 50 million of them who-allegedly-cannot afford health care for themselves and/or their poor children.

These Americans do things like look to the Canadians and their socialism for health care guidance. Not only is this an activity that makes them ashamed of or infuriated at their proud nation of the United States, but to make matters worse the Canadians, who always love to find something that they think they can do better than their southern neighbors, don't hold back their snickering or snide remarks at Americans for their inability to makes sure that everyone in the U.S. can afford health care.

Of course, this is the part where Big Brother is pleaded with to step in and automagically dispel the black-hearted demons of the private sector that, everybody knows or should know, long ago conspired to rape Americans of so much money that they couldn't care less that they are missing out on nearly 50 million customers' money.

Seems a very peculiar way of doing business, even from a purely selfish perspective, but that's what we are told we must believe by most people.

The politicians readily accept the lobbying, in whatever form it comes, to cut deals with or make offers that can't be refused to the health care industry.

But the real problem with American health care is that what nearly 50 million Americans allegedly cannot afford is health insurance.

Almost every single adult American can afford health care; in the here and now. It's all a matter of degrees.

If one can take money out of one's wallet-or from one's debit or charge card-and use that money to buy things like aspirin, cough drops, Ace bandages, skin lotion, and so on and so forth-then one can afford health care.