Let’s take care of these folks
I saw some distubing news today. One was about a young man that played for the University of Miami, Jason Blissett Jr., who decided to retire from football after a series of head injuries. He said “I’ve been struggling a lot with my own head injuries and if you’ve known me, followed me since high school I’ve had multiple concussions and stuff like that.”
This is truly sad news. And I started thinking about it. Who’s going to pay for his after care? The NCAA? The high school he went to?
Then, I looked on Twitter and saw Ryan Leaf talking about Vincent Jackson’s death. Even though Vincent Jackson had a reported net worth of $50 million dollars, it didn’t seem to help him with the issues he had.
And what if you’re a former solider? What about those folks who went to war or a peace-keeping mission and suffered a tramatic brain injury?
So what can be done to take care of people with these types of injuries? Quite simply, insurance.
Insurance? Duh. That’s what we all need insurance. Health insurance. Let’s just cover everyone in America with health insurance.
Sounds simple right? Health insurance is complicated.
I don’t like complicated. I hate soliders and athletes going around without adequate care more. Remember, “people first, then money, then things.” So how do we take care of these people without…tackling the chart?
I propose a health care umbrella policy. Instead of THE CHART, all Americans get a health care plan that kicks in when you reach a certain level of health care usage. Per dollar, not per year. With every America in a plan like this, everyone can get many things, like brain injuries, cancer treatments, COVID-19 treatment taken care of, regardless of your ability to pay!
You have questions. You might ask ‘how much would that cost?’ It depends. It would not be as expensive as what we do now. Per the article ‘How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries?’ we currently spend $10,966 per person in America. “On average, other wealthy countries spend about half as much per person on health than the U.S.”
With 331 million people in the U.S, that’s 3.6 trillion dollars. It’s tough to count that high on your fingers! So reducing that number by taking the risk out of health insurer’s hands for castrophic care and covering everyone will reduce that number. By how much, I don’t know.
What I am counting on is that there won’t be any big changes to the current American healthcare system. So I’m floating an idea out there to see if we can change things for people who really need it.
