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If you mindlessly accept what is read in the papers, heard on teevee soundbites and what is spewed by professional jobholders, the health system is a shambles.  It’s too expensive, not available to everyone, and, is not in need of an invisible hand, but a socialist hand.  Indeed, some professional jobholders, today, are mouthing platitudes to the fact that affordable health insurance is a right.  I’ve diligently read, and reread, the Bill of Rights, and I’ve found nothing of the sort within that states this.

The main reason for this push to socialize American medicine seems to be the costs.  Everyone complains about the costs.  Health insurance costs too much.  Health care, out of pocket, costs too much.  I can’t afford it, it costs too much.  Blah, blah, blah.  I’ve been thinking about this since cocktails were served Friday night.

A very good friend and I were standing in the kitchen enjoying a martini.  During the course of the conversation, he mentioned he was suffering from tendinitis, in his elbow.  Which, I think, is more commonly known as tennis elbow.  Since he was aware that I had, in the past, suffered from this minor inconvenience, he inquired as to my course of treatment.  I told him I took ibuprofen, of no particular brand name, and that the malaise, over time, disappeared.  In reply to my answer, my friend relayed to me a course of treatment he was invited to partake of, which, he stated, was “kind of strange.” “Do tell,” I replied, so he did.  What follows, are impressions of a foray into the world of physical therapy, which, if you think about it, may shine some light on why health care “costs too much.”

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