[Pilot]

A broken wrist costs six grand to fix because the costs are unimportant when an insurance company can be bilked for it.

I am uninsured. I work for myself and sure as hell cannot afford health insurance for myself if I wanted. I've been very fortunate really; never been hospitalized for anything major except for an incident I had which required eye surgery to correct (rusty metal sliced my cornea, but beside the point)

Around here hospitalization costs IMO are so exorbitant that one is coerced into "needing" insurance in order to be able to play the health care game. The medical industry is a business. A private business. Private businesses by nature are designed to make a profit.

For someone like myself, god forbid I need hospitalization because I simply would not be able to pay. I'd be treated, of course, and depending on what treatment was given, I may be left to file bankruptcy as many uninsured americans do who incur unexpected medical bills; most of which whom also have little to no savings.

I also look at things in terms of our social lifestyles. So many sicknesses and diseases that are putting us in hospitals could easily be prevented by changes in lifestyle. The issue here, also, is that in America the general accepted 'social' lifestyle is also the least healthy one... constant stress, unhealthy food, lethargy..... and of course the body reacts.

I risk sounding pessimist in what I'm about to say but this is not the case; I'm optimist: America is out of control. Our whole social system is out of control and I expect the only way to correct it is to let it crash. Medical industry and all.