Ten Ways I Would Change the Health Care System

1.)  Change the nutritional mindset of the country. Most people have been conditioned to depend on processed food. The convenience of meals from a fast food window and junk food snacks designed to eat on the go replaced time-honored homemade traditions. The public needs to be re-educated on the benefits of fresh foods and home-cooked meals. Require health and nutritional education for children and adults and get everyone back on track.

2.) Support organic and local farming and wholesome nutritional foods that are not grown in factory farms or with chemicals. We need to understand where our food comes from, how many chemicals it takes to mass-produced food and how many animals need to be drugged and slaughtered because millions eat at McDonald's every day.

3.) Give tax breaks to people who exercise and eat nutritiously. Reward them for good health and for not overburdening the health system.

4.) For those who still want to keep their bad habits, charge incredibly high taxes for  junk food, caffeine, tobacco, recreational drugs, and alcohol.  These people also don't get free health care like the rest of us - they pay.  I doubt very much if charging more for these habits will eradicate them totally, but it would finance a better health care system.

5.)  Give tax breaks to people who have two children or less.

6.) Charge massive amounts of taxes to those who have more than two children. (I'm talking about birthing children, not adopting them. If you have more than two children, even if you give them up for adoption, you pay.) Overpopulating the world overburdens our limited resources and forces the system into factory farming and genetic modification in order to produce enough food for the population. We need to start eliminating the overconsumption. It starts with social responsibility. No one needs more than two kids, let alone fourteen. What are people thinking?

7.) Fire everyone at the Food and Drug Administration and reform the whole department so chemicals and chemical products are actually regulated for a change.

8.) Implement a universal health care plan so it's available to everyone. All those extra taxes I'm proposing go toward financing free medical care. Let those who would bring it down with their overconsumption and social irresponsibility pay for it.

9.) With a free, universal health care system, health insurance becomes obsolete. If no one has insurance, then patient care becomes fair and equal. I can't count how many times I've been denied services because I don't have insurance and I've heard of many who were turned away from hospitals for the same reason. Health care shouldn't be focused on making money; it should be about wellness.

10.) Change the focus and job description of doctors. (See previous post: "Ten Ways I Would Change Doctors")

Obviously, I believe a health care system overhaul involves much more than providing free public health care. For any plan to work, there needs to be a health reform movement designed make society as a whole less unhealthy or the free plan will squash under the weight of desperate need.

Did I forget anything? Add your ideas to the comment section.