Ambulance

As I walked out in the shop to close it down today one of my guys shouted out: JONAS! I looked at him, not a pretty sight and he said: I think I might need an ambulance.

He sure did, he had extreme difficulties breathing and was blue in his face and on his arms. The first EMS crew arrived in 5 minutes and after some diagnostic and radio back and forth he was taken to the hospital.

This incident raised a lot of thoughts I have had lately about the American health system. It is a great system if you're;

1. In good health.

2. Have a lot of money, should you become ill.

What about insurance. It is readily available to any one with out a documented illness. Take asthma for instance. No one wants that in their chart, let's call it respiratory virus instead. If you get "tagged" with asthma during your professional carer and you have insurance, let's just pray that your employer never changes insurance, or that you change jobs, modern slavery I at times call it.

During my time here in the US I have encountered different views, solutions and law suits in this matter. I have during insight in different ventures learned about different approaches to this problem. Because it is a problem I think. There are some that allow their employees to insure their families with the company plan at great discount, the employer picks up the tab. There are they who have a set dollar amount per month who the employer is willing to pay. Single or not.

At the end of day it raises a lot of questions, is it a benefit if the company goes under paying these high costs?Without a pay check then what do I do? It is a substantial bill to pay and in hard times you need that money to keep operating. As an employer do I reject people with bad health? Or are at risk? This is highly illegal but please don't tell me it never happens. If I am not denying them the opportunity to work, is it fair for their coworkers to pick up the increased bill? At the end of the day it affects the bottom line.

We here about discrimination between different groups of people, black, Hispanic, Asian, you name it. We might overcome that to replace it with a different type of discrimination, I all ready hear obese people screaming foul. It is indeed a sad society we live in.