Medical Realities 2012

Medical Realities 2012

Progressing towards 2020, the demographics slipping

Some may argue the accolades of the current American health system

I beg of you to trade arrogance for mathematics and economics

Let scientists guide science and leave the profiteering at the portcullis 

However we fund, we must recognize the shifting of fundamentals

From outside homes into our consciousness

We must empower patients to manage our digital health identities

To merge and cross-reference these profiles with our genetic tree 

The branches, the trunk, the roots, we are but one species

Segmented by gender, culture and blood-type, yet

Why is our data trapped like CIA files?

We have to get a lawyer to speak inside our own lungs 

The private insurers sit there like Sauron’s black gate

Eye in the tower, watching witnessing violations

Of what is covered, what is not, who we are,

What can be deemed outside the legalese of a plan document  

What if there was no outside, what if there was another core belief

Nah, shush, shush the un-discussable

What if I had software on my laptop, television or phone

Of me, all of me, every appointment, every discussion 

Into multiple iterations of a virtual model where I or any human

Could peer into my body fueled with the statistics of modern

Digital medical devices equipped to my shell, into my cells

My speed of reaction, respiration rates while awake, while sleeping  

I choose the times of view; I choose what is material to me

I am armed with the weapons of a modern health industry

That simultaneously lowers costs to the overall system and

Provides me better health with staying in front of core issues

Based on genetic probability and patient awareness of his or her body 

What if that data was linked to other patients like me anonymously

Until both agreed to disclose names via a web-based data management system

We can discuss specialists, contacts, medications, therapies

What worked for our mother when she went through this disease two years ago? 

Maybe death’s stinger will allow one man’s poison to be another’s honey

I see not this disengagement to assert the holiness or the business-type expertise

To be confined to a hospital room or a doctor’s skull, although paramount

It is not the totality of the universe of our concern or salvation

The truth is our greatest doctor during our lifetime operates our limbs

Motions our fingers and toes to activate our continuation upon this planet  

What if every doctor and nurse in our treatment team had access to this data simultaneously in a web-based application that put the core information for their stage in the forefront and the other data accessible in the background? 

So it is, as we break apart this continuity we proceed to invite death, sickness

And keep wellness at bay for the sake of an accreditation hampered by a lawyer

A must do, a drug-company avoiding a potential suit, a cost-prohibited accumulation of hours or chemicals entering us; when in fact  

All great education is now released from text books, but swarming in the digital universe surrounding our bodies and like oxygen all we must do is simply breathe

Yet how can one man inhale alone if we neglect to grow the rainforest

If we folly in games of illusion about the aging of the Boomers and the fiscal realities 

The great trenches of dysfunction will swallow us if left unabated

I beg of you, see not just the selfishness of wanting to buy a man’s way into a medical bed,
but what is not available to that same man because he insists on a system

Predicated on his employer or individual tax return, when in fact  

A body is a body, is a living organism unbound to these trivial notions of entitlement

Besides the macroeconomics of the argument are completely incorrect
(Health is not a free-market good.)

 

That which the current system purports to create is merely a marketing campaign

To blanket over the externalities of the system which are already born by the taxpayers

That which the alternative is demonized for is the uncompensated scab

On the ass cheek of a Humana stock price 

So it is,

Let me save myself,

Who else has a better interest in my health?