If your poor enough you will get sick. If you’re sick long enough, you will be poor. Economics and healthcare are pretty much two sides to the same coin. After all the nonsense spoken about on the healthcare front, some of which is discussed here, I took a month off to gather some thoughts around a broader set of behaviors in play.
Societies, and the economies that support them, are just a set or rules under which people have agreed to live, work and interact. Some economies are seem to do a better job than others, typically that is because the rules are clear and evenly applied there by reduce confusion and risk. America is one such economy. Like looking out the windows of a busy airport to the dance of activity below, our economy may appear messy, certainly disorderly, but in the end it works amazingly well. The dance of capitalism is quite wonderful to watch. Occasionally things lip, and companies fall, but in the end the music continues and we do pretty well.
America has been goofing around with the rules a great deal over the past two years, which will for certain produce effects. We hope these will be good, but from this perspective we don’t know for certain. Clearly based upon historical precedence, there is every reason to be fearful. What we know for certain is that those experimenting with these rules will not be the only ones affected by them, typically they’re not affected at all, hence I offer this.
One simple perspective in less than 800 words. I hope you enjoy
Tom
