Monday, December 12, 2011

Imagining Chicago's Skyline Without Health Care

Walking downtown yesterday in Grant Park, I looked up and marveled at Chicago's skyline. As I looked north, there before me was the huge towering white Aon building (formerly the Standard Oil building) in Chicago, and next to it to the right, a building that seemed, well, pretty huge as well. Only then did I notice it was the Blue Cross Blue Shield building (expanded in 2008 during health care "reform," remember?), and, to the left, the Prudential insurance buildings:


So then I wondered. What would Chicago's skyline look like without medicine?


Chicago's skyline would look very different, indeed.

-Wes

3 comments:

  1. My neighbor and his wife pay over $600 per month on medical insurance... and then there is the co-pay. He had six stents several months ago. Had he been saving the money in a fund for all of his life, he could have gone to Thailand or India and still had a major bank account. But now he just survives...

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  2. kinda looks better in 2nd photo. at least can see some nice blue sky. but i'm glad the medical are there, just in case. thanks

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  3. kinda looks better in 2nd photo. at least can see some nice blue sky. but i'm glad the medical are there, just in case. thanks

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