Prescription Drugs and National Health Care

In one of my college classes, I took part in a debate regarding the pros and cons of national health care as well as the general view of the pharmaceutical world. The main consensus seemed to be that national health care would be a good idea but could never work because it would end up barely affecting the rich, and making the middle class and the poor get even poorer. I think at this point having national health care in the US is pointless, for it to work many other variables would have to be taken care of first. The entire health care system including doctors, health insurance agencies, and pharmaceutical companies would all have to be reorganized into systems that were no longer just money making machines. This is what it has come to, it isn't the health care system we have now, and National health care won't make it better, because as mentioned there are other falsities at play.

On the topic of prescription drugs, we have been named the prescription generation. There is a new drug for everything, people actually use it in social situations as a way to relate to others: " oh your on such and such a drug? me too!!!" It is sickening. People "develop" symptoms to match the drug they want, not a drug to match the symptoms. When did it become ok to instill such fear into the American people? When did prescription drugs become "the answer?" We are creating a generation of people unable to deal with everyday life because they were never forced to. There was a chain email going around for a while titled "how we survived the 50's." It was all about the things that people did in the fifties that we don't do anymore because some study showed that it could be dangerous. One of the examples was, "my mother cut up our vegetables on the same cutting board as our meat.... and we lived!!" or something to that scenario. In all honesty I think that people have become weak minded and so as with prescription drugs and National health care... are always looking for the new cure, be it in politics.... a new drug... or judgment of another country or people. Point the finger and everything will be alright.