The worship of health care

There are two aspects of healthcare:

the individual and the collective.

At the individual level, it means living a healthy lifestyle, eating healthy foods and getting the exercise that promotes health.

I am all in favor of that.

But then there is the collective level.

Let me offer a hypothetical example.

Suppose someone is 89, and requires an expensive medical procedure to extend his or her life.

Should the broader society be required to pay for that procedure?

I say no.

What we are seeing in the 2020s, 

without the slightest regard for how much it costs or how much harm 

paying the bills for all this healthcare causes to others, 

especially to the younger generation, 

who are saddled with enormous debt caused in considerable part by today's grossly excessive spending on healthcare, 

is a grossly excessive amount of spending on healthcare.

We must be aware of the harm caused by unlimited, unbounded spending on healthcare.

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As to how the media has been part of the instigation of this problem, consider the Washington Post.

It alternates between promoting support for 

healthcare, 

transgenderism, 

and its true love, Ukraine.