In America, money buys life. Marketing medical services online in the
US make me question absolute capitalism.

I was taught that laissez fare capitalism, although while it sometimes doesn’t work perfectly, is the best off all evils. That’s what they told me at Temple University’s liberal arts college and that’s what I’ve been getting from most of my business education and environment. If you work hard and use your god-given talents, you can benefit from all that the land of equal opportunity has to offer.

This even worked for me on a personal level. I’ve managed to do well in my business life despite that I did not come from wealth. I busted my butt on my education while working 3 jobs, worked for minimum wage and made many personal compromises. Over time, I did succeed to climb up the ladder and accumulate experience and wealth.

It took more then the current economic crisis to for me to begin questioning the fundamentals of my belief paradigm.  What happened is that I became intensely involved in a new venture in the medical services field in the U.S.

It hit me like brick -  in America, money buys life. More then 40 million Americans don’t have health insurance! And many that do have medical coverage, have poor plans that do not cover enough to truly keep them healthy. Basically, in America, unless you have good health insurance to back you up or are cash rich, you will be deprived of your most elementary medical needs.

Most Americans reading that would say, “Yes, so . . .what else is new? Health care is a commodity – either you can afford it or not.” But all you need to do is open your eyes and realize that the world is changing and once again it’s to the credit of the Internet.

I suspect that Kim Jong-il, the leader of North Korea, is not twittering. But I am guessing that his intelligence agencies do. They study the Internet in order to control it. They know that free Internet access to North Koreans would bring and end to their regime. The greatest (fire) wall of China is only partially successful in blocking Chinese from freely opening up to rest of the world. Iranian new green revolt has been named already the “Twitter revolution”. It is not that all young educated Iranians are eager to make peace with Israelis like me; they just want to enjoy the freedom that they see that other young people world wide have. They want the freedom to get attention, to find dates, to be rebellious, to have fun, the freedom to find information that on issues relevant to their daily lives and belong to global communities. When they compare themselves to peers worldwide and feel discriminated, that’s when unrest can happen. What do demonstrating Africans, revolt youth in Paris, in Athens, Turkish teens in Germany and Palestinians kids in the West Bank all have in common? The answer is high speed internet, social media, and lots of frustration and feeling of being left behind.

When an American patient goes to his primary doctor and gets diagnosed, gets a test result or just when he suspects that he or a family member suffers from something, he is very likely to go immediately online and run a search. Before you can say Google, he’ll be exposed, like a growing number of Americans, to medical care they are being deprived of. A woman might learn through her Facebook that her friend is covered for a cosmetic procedure, while she wouldn’t be able to smile since her untreated teeth hurt so much. The more they learn about their compromised health and wellness, the more they’ll get frustrated with this system.

The writing is on the wall. The social medical revolution of the united state is simmering under the cyber. If you are a healthcare professional, a specially a US physician who have taken the hypocrites’ oath, you might have one day to explain to your kids, why were you standing on the sidelines while the revolution to demolish the inhuman, unjust realities of the American healthcare system was raging.