bored at work so I'll write you a mini-essay

The history of heath sayth TOG

In the beginning (man I really love that phrase!) you were born, lived a bit, worked as much as possible, and then you died. Then there were doctors to whom you could go to if a dinosaur ate your leg, or something of a similar situation and they would tell you that you are dead, and change you X dollars. Then there were more doctors, whom would tell you that you were going to die in a few days because you took a breath of dinosaur fart and it has rotted your innards, and they would charge you X+5 dollars because now you had more time to get your end-of-life affairs in order. Then even more doctors came, and you could go to them before you were dying. And they would tell you to stay away from dinosaurs because they’re bad for you. And for this regular advice he (yes he, I'm playing the statistics of pre-industrial revolution so don't throw your feminist baggage on me) would charge you X+10 dollars because his advice was more valuable because it prevented you from almost dying in the first place.
This progression goes on until one day in the not so distant past, some dude says to you "Hey If you pay me X-10 dollars a year, whenever you get hurt and almost die, I'll pay your doctors bill" this sounds like a pretty good deal because you're a sickly chap and nearly die every year, this should obviously save you money. And after a year of near-death experiences, the dude says to you "your sure a sickly chap, It will cost you x-5 dollars this year to keep our agreement going" and you say okay, because you'll still probably save money, and it's a lot less worrying you have to do.
This all goes on until there are a bunch of "dudes" and a bunch of "you's" different dude change different amounts to different people all based upon how sickly they are or aren't. This arrangement is working out pretty well for everybody. Dudes are making some money, doctors are healing sickly people up, and unsickly people have the piece of mind that if they every turn to the dark side the doctor will make them better.
Then all hell breaks loose because somebody gets pissed because nobody will pay the doctors bill of some other extremely sickly dude. "Oh damn, the system's a sham" they chant outside the gov't buildings. Please take other people's money to pay this extremely sickly dude's doctor's bill. Somebody gets elected by saying that they'll do, and they tell the peons and underlings to get it done. They're all real happy because their representing the little guy and lots of people are glad to help, and those that...hey, you know what, this essay turned out to be not so mini. I guess I'll just break it up into pieces, tune in tomorrow for continuing coverage. same bat time, same bat channel