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
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