Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Is It Just Me Or Is The Health System Sick?



Public Hospitals don’t make money
After all they are not businesses, but
The companies that supply public hospitals
With dressings, cleaning agents, drugs,
Gowns, curtains, equipment, gloves,
Plastic food trays, Styrofoam cups,
Syringes, wipes, gowns, scrubs,
Beds, sheets, cannulas, shoes,
Soap, towels, wheelchairs, tubes
Waste collection, waste disposal,
Administration, security, childcare,
They all make money don’t they?
Question: have we created a vested
Interest in keeping people sick?
Or in making them sick then well again
Just to show the system is working?
How market driven is our health system?
How many politicians sit on the boards
Of these companies or hold shares?
And how many politicians sit on the boards
Or hold shares in the companies that
Produce products known to cause diseases
Like cancer, cirrhosis and diabetes?
These questions should be answered
Before we privatise our health system
For it seems this is not about wellness
But making the privileged even more rich
In a United States of Illness

© shaun patrick green 2014

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