REINVENTING & PUTTING
MEANING INTO FREE HEALTHCARE
WHAT AIL'S THE STATE FUNDED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Diagnosing the aliment that health care is suffering from, has been tough for
the people who govern and finance the system. The medical staff who toil 24/7
inside the airtight bubble, the poor ignorant guinea pigs who offer themselves
for scientific treatments, and the hungry corporations who feed and poison the
common man with their toxic harmful processed food products. All the above
agencies are inside the system. To arrive at the differential diagnosis,
someone impartial and not connected with the system must study from outside. It
is easy, and a piece of cake for a trained Value engineer and creative
Industrial engineer like me, to take in the total picture of all the elements
involved and process them to evolve a workable practical solution. This
solution is so far advanced and 25 years ahead of its time that the concerned
parties may find it difficult to accept and implement it right now, though
eventually this is the only way out for everyone involved. We will have to
think outside of the box to arrive at the best possible solution to this
century old problem of health care.
HOLES IN THE BUCKET
For example a chain smoker would refuse to quit smoking & demand
medical treatment for his asthma/throat cancer, how insane is this premise. It is
like filling up water, in a bucket which has big holes at the bottom. Why would
anyone use such a defective vessel, to fill up and truly believe that it will
fill up at some point in time? It is akin to try and button up your jacket only
to find out that it has a zipper for closing it.
“These coarse people of bad habits and
shallow judgments do not deserve such a beautiful and anatomical structure as
the human body. They deserve merely a sack to put in food and let out again.” I
fully agree with Lala Hardayal who wrote this many years ago.
FOOD MANUFACTURERS WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY
Coming back to our key issue of health care management, we observe that the
poor guinea pigs has been given absolute freedom to do as they like, even if it
means going on the road to destruction, and expecting the big brother, their
governments, to rescue them later with all paid for health care plans, while
they continue with bad habits. The governing agency is too busy with hundreds
of higher-ranking international priorities, including re-election to office;
hence this issue takes a back seat in their agendas. The highly talented
medical staff are busy doing what they have been trained for, treating the
human body after the DAMAGE has been done. Like our police force they wait and
watch till the people fall sick, and the guinea pigs to be carried into the
hospitals. Additionally, these doctors are always treating the symptoms, the
effect, in the body and not the cause of sickness, which happens to be beyond
their realm and scope of work. Finally, the profit hungry corporations are
responsible for all the degeneration caused to the common man’s health. Who is
going to hold them accountable? They have been getting away very easily till
now, but time has come to put an end to all this mess.
WAIT AND WATCH TACTICS FOR SICKNESS
Let us start with the world’s topmost
troublesome problem as an analogy – Smuggling of drugs. How are we tackling it
today? By policing it, chasing it after the act has been committed. We wait for
the drug lords to buy the stuff off the farmers, wait for them to process it
and do value addition to it, again wait for them to smuggle it across the
borders in ever new ways. We wait for intelligence tips to arrive, and yet
again wait for the actual stuff to arrive to catch it, if we can. Thousands of
police officers, border security forces, k-nine units, cars and helicopters by
the hundreds are employed to do this job today. If not billions but many
trillions of dollars are spent every year unsuccessfully in the effort to
contain this drug problem. In vain goes all this herculean effort because our
children are still doing drugs and bringing untold misery into the families
involved. As a government agency, we ought to be proactive and one step ahead
of the drug lords to beat them at their game. The solution is very simple.
LEARNING & COPYING THE COFFEE MASTERS
Who is buying up 90% of the world’s
coffee? Starbucks and Tim Horton’s & MacDonald’s. Just like them we go out
and procure 98% of the raw heroin/poppy from the farmers and do what we want to
do. We could even ask the farmers to harvest the crops much before they
blossomed since we intend to destroy them. Ship it to an undisclosed location
and dispose of it off, by burning it and generating power. Alternately process
it for medicinal purposes and huge governmental profits. I would go a step
further to the very root of the epidemic, by procuring the poppy seeds
themselves and destroying them systematically and clandestinely. In a matter of
three to five crop cycles poppy seeds can be in the extinct category. We must
think out of the box for creative solutions.
FUNDING GOING DOWN THE DRAIN
This would render most of the police force surplus to be utilized in other
areas. They would still be required to track down the small-time individual
poppy growers. Trillions of dollars would become available for critical health
care management. Now that you have abundant funds, let’s see how to spend a
fraction of it to get extraordinary results.
SELF DEFEATING STRATEGIES OF FOOD
CORPORATIONS
These food manufacturers continue marketing richer and bigger portions again
and again, expecting different results every time. In short, they
have embraced SELF DEFEATING policies and egoistic attitudes, that their
corporations are more important than the nation. The picture changed radically
for the worse by 2030, which is just around the corner. Like the housing
market, this bubble burst with such catastrophic effects, that some harsh steps
had to be taken, within the basic framework of total freedom.
THINK TANKS FIND FOOL PROOF SOLUTIONS
The best think tanks in the world were summoned to find innovative solutions to
this devastating problem. They brainstormed and came up with these following
proposals. The anti-lobbying law was enacted and passed banning any spending by
these hungry corporations on lobbying of every kind, direct or indirect.
Another sub law was added to the above, which made it legal for the affected
public and the governments to sue these companies for playing with the health
of future citizens of the nation, for staggering compensations. Time has come
to take a peep into the CRYSTAL BALL for most of the world. The
doctor – medicine scene has degenerated beyond repair. It has reached levels of
INSANITY.
EMPOWERING THE PUBLIC & PRIVATIZING
HEALTH CARE
The federal taxes for personal incomes
and corporate profits were marginally reduced and the health care plans
dissolved. The message was clear. Here, take your money and manage
your own health with your very own personalized health care plans.
THE LOGIC OF RECALL OF DEFECTIVE ITEMS
TO BE APPLIED TO FOOD CORPORATIONS
In lieu of the reduced corporate taxes the corporations were asked to take up
the responsibility of health care management and expenses. The law makers
additionally argued on the following premises. If the auto manufacturers are
compelled to recall millions of defective and unsafe vehicles which could
possibly lead to fatalities down the road, then why not apply the same logic to
the food manufacturers. The food and liquor manufacturing companies were
directed to take over the hospitals and fix up their mistakes of misleading the
innocent youth on the fatally wrong path. They were required to manage clinics
and hospitals, with the profits they made off the poor gullible public, who
were Hexed by these very corporations with their false propaganda.
ALLOCATION OF HOSPITALS BASED ON PRODUCT RELATED ALIMENTS
The hospital for mouth and lung diseases was allocated to the tobacco
companies. The hospital for obesity and heart diseases was offloaded on to the
food corporations and liquor commissions. The diabetic clinics were handed over
to coffee cafes, tea kiosks, chocolate companies, and candy manufacturers. The
mental health institutions were forced upon meat processing and gaming
corporations. Thus, the government washed off their hands from the painful and
perpetual issues of health care, its cost-burden and management. This way a
major catastrophe was averted very smartly and profitably. The above innovative
change was a Utopian step for the troubled West.
TRANSPARENT PREMISE
It worked because these companies
managed their hospitals and clinics very professionally and effectively,
keeping the same philosophy of CUSTOMER FIRST. They adopted a unique pattern of
admitting patients into the clinics and hospitals. They adopted a two-window
system: PAYING window and NON-PAYING window. The pay window was reserved
strictly for indolent, alcoholics, smokers, overweight, and addiction prone
public. The non-paying window was reserved for active, teetotalers, nonsmokers,
lean and addiction free public. The premise of this system was transparent and
simple. If a person could afford rich foods, exotic liquors, expensive
cigarettes and luxurious cars then he could afford to pay for his costly
illness and sickness too. These companies were happy making additional profits
off the rich man which helped pay for the poor nonpaying patients who truly
required the expensive treatments. It did not make sense to these companies
that people should consume in large quantities, stick with harmful habits, and
ask for medical treatments at the same time.
RIGHTLY FOCUSING ON PREVENTIVE HEALTH
& MEDICINE
These corporations additionally &
cleverly leased out all the health clubs and fitness gymnasiums in the country.
It was free for all, but mandatory for the non-paying clients to use them on a
regular basis. It became more important to prevent than to cure. Hence 80% of
the effort was spent on prevention and just 20% on curing the malady. This
major paradigm shift brought down the total cost of health care drastically.
The idea is that the doctor takes a back seat and allows the common public to
take personal responsibility of their health. The Doctor was supposed to be a
coach/counselor and that was the original idea to have family doctors to help
in preventing the diseases rather than curing them.
WRITING IS ON THE WALL
Today it does makes sense with the governments handing out free health care
plans, no questions asked. If they ever did question, then their governments
would be voted out of power, based on discrimination. This is the key word. The
power of the public to black mail the governments. The future of these
governments can be seen in the crystal ball. We do not need another
Nostradamus to tell us what is going to happen 20 or 30 years from now. The
writing is on the wall, for every one of us to read, if we want to. This global
writing too is heavily coded and to get the real meaning it must be deciphered
locally.
PILOT PROJECT TO MAKE A SUCCESS STORY OF THE NEW MODEL
I feel the above Utopian approach and health care model, must be tried out in
an educated manageable advanced country like Norway or
Switzerland first to make a success story and then the rest of the world will
line up to borrow the concept, of course at a high cost and perpetual royalties
for life. My intuition says that sooner or later the world must come to its
knees begging for such a unique solution to the most pressing and financially
draining problem. How do the industrial manufacturers maintain their
factories/plants & stay ahead of their competitors? Naturally by following
the same very preventive maintenance concept they stay ahead. It should work in
the medical field too equally well. I am suggesting a pilot project on a
country level as we do in any engineering field. I have spearheaded
numerous committees at my steel company to help evaluate the feasibility of
major new projects. One noteworthy project was the setting up of new 10-million-ton
steel plant on the eastern coast of India. After my findings and in-depth study,
it was scrapped ceremoniously. I have been the official Think Tank for all
Value Engineering workshops/teams, apart from my normal routine.
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