Government and Medicine

Our Governments when they started invested in railways invested in telephones Invested in Dams Invested in hospitals creating jobs creating employment creating growth creating development yet modern governments said we can't run companies Sold your parents investments children complain about paying for you pension why should we pay for your retirement Yet our tax money built your future our tax money built your hospitals our tax money built the roads we did our share All through our lives Governments take tax invested properly and the profit should pay For our retirement Invested in microsoft and the interest would have paid for your pension User pays does not work for medicine elderly people go without medication they can't afford well drug companies focus on more and more profit the cost of medical equipment keeps getting higher and higher Twelve dollars for just a fork with a built up plastic handle the world should be designed to improve lives not profit When people get sick that's the time they can't work money becomes an issue Investing in successful companies Would provide profits for governments but pharmaceutical companies also need to be realistic people need medication at realistic prices There is no point in curing cancer if the cost of medication stops people from getting the cure Everybody expects the government to pay exorbitant costs to save their loved ones to top up the cost of medication to subsidise the cost yet why are we not asking why do the costs have to be so high shouldn't medication meet the needs of their consumers