Joe Rogan Offers a Powerful Argument for a Humane Healthcare System

I was talking with my buddies and I've been having a really good time with my son making stuff and he said, man, I know this may sound crazy, but this Corona shit, he said, you and your son are going to look back one day and you're going to be like, hey, dad, remember when we made that slingshot during when the Corona was out? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's like, you know, the memory is going to be there all type of ways. Yeah. You're building memories that you wouldn't have ordinarily built. Yep. As long as you're alive and as long as you're healthy. It's just, it's, I think the positive side of this, you could always look at the negative side, but the positive side is look how many people are complying. Look how many people are doing the right thing. Right. That's a lot of people and they're doing the right thing because they care about their loved ones. Hopefully they care about your loved ones and people aren't complaining as much. People not there like, fuck it. That's what I mean. People are hurting financially. A lot of people losing their businesses, they're hurting, but the amount of stripe, the amount that you see in the streets as far as like riots and protests, it's not existent. People are understanding we're all fucked. This is like, we didn't see it coming. We all got a deal. I just hope this makes people realize that all that pull them up by their bootstrap stuff. Like people love to think that that's how people should be. You know, you should just pull yourself up by your bootstraps, go out there and fucking make something for yourself. That's all true. You definitely should go out there and try to accomplish some goals, but there's going to be times in our lives as a community where some shit goes down and it's not anybody's fault, but they need help. And that's when we have to evaluate what our taxes go to because if our taxes don't go to some form of excellent, very accessible healthcare and making that more widespread, then you're basically saying you don't really care about people's health and their survival as much as you care about money. Now we're going to commit to that kind of a culture after something like this. Well, we're insane. We're not learning anything. We should learn something from this. And what we can learn from this is like health wise, we are not prepared, whether it's through hospital beds, ICUs, ventilators, social distancing protocols, whatever the fuck it was. We weren't prepared for something like this. But now that we are, we should all go, hey, yeah, you know what, man? No one should not have the money to pay for treatment for this. So what do we do? What do we do, Joe? What do we do? What do we do? Change the way we look at our services. It sounds like you said we've got to change thinking period. Change thinking, but also change what our money should go to. Our money's got to go to that. It's got to go to that. But that's very important for everybody. When people get sick, it spreads to all of us now. We also we don't want ever to know anyone that you love that's going to die because they can't get health care that's available for people that have money. We got to stop that. Just like we stopped with the fire department. The fire department goes to people's houses when the fire's on fire. Because they're worried. Hold on a second. The fire department goes to a house when it's on fire because not just of that house. They don't want to spread through the whole city. They go. That's the same thing with health care. If someone's really sick, they don't help you. And you've got coronavirus. You spread it to everybody else. You don't get the health care. And you're contagious. It's almost like a fire in a lot of ways. Like a viral fire. But aren't we living in a system where everybody is qualified to have health care? We should be. So what is what is covered California? What the fuck is that all about? I don't know, man. I don't. I mean, if you think about how much money gets spent on things, right, whether it's computers, whether it's cars, whether it's houses, whether it's with the things that people buy, how much of a percentage of that if you could escalate it just a little bit and all that money goes into just health care, not just taxes where no one's accountable. You don't know where the fuck it's going to go. What if everybody's dollar cost $1.05, just an added five cents for most things you buy up to a certain point and all that money goes straight to health care. Can you be willing to pay instead of $1.05 or something if you knew that five cents is going to go towards health care? That's you know, as a business person, that five cent may mean a lot to me as a business person. Right. It might. That's what I'm saying. That's it. That might be for I can't know. I look at no, that dollar and dollar and five. That's only five cents. Now, if you talk about that being billions and millions, then I'll do this. That's why I set up to a certain point to a certain amount of money. Right. I mean, after a while. I agree with you. It seems like it would be better for everybody and it would be better for us to not worry about what happens if you get sick because you don't know if you're going to be able to pay for it. Sometimes people get hit with crazy medical bills after, you know, an unexpected injury or unexpected disease, time in the hospital. They got a huge bill. They can't fucking pay. It's real common that I don't know. Remember because of that kind of shit.