Population Health: The Insurance Cartel’s Next Big Move in Dominating Medical Care

The American Medical Money Machine ^ | July 22, 2015 | James R. Goldberg

[Rona Badger]

“Population Health” is an Orwellian extension of UnitedHealth’s plan to profit at the expense of the real health of the people. In our opinion, the term Population Health is a blatant attempt, supported by Obamacare and the current administration, to unilaterally alter the way in which medicine is practiced in the United States.

Population Health has been around for years but it’s still being defined today. Tom Sullivan, Executive Editor of HIMSS Media gives some clues in his post, “What exactly is ‘population health,’ anyway?” but confirms that “what has become eminently clear is that defining population health depends on whom you ask.”

When it comes to asking insurance companies, it’s important to understand that Population Health management doesn’t pertain just to the overall health of a population, it also includes the distribution of health. If a majority of a population is relatively healthy, the goal is to find ways to move the much less healthy population over to the majority side. To accomplish this, the differences in health among a population must be eliminated in the model—or at least substantially reduced—so that everyone is healthy.

Exactly how is this going to be achieved? Well, a patient’s unique circumstances will no longer be taken into consideration. For example, say you live in an area where the majority is unhealthy. The fact that you, personally, are healthy but now have a knee that needs an operation will not be taken into account. In your area, you’ll be subjected to—and required to pay for—a package of pre-determined bundled treatments that are based on a model of care for an unhealthy majority. Do you want to be treated as a model of a person or as the person you are?

[Buckeye McFrog]

With their demographics this would mean the end of health insurance in Florida.

[Rona Badger]

Right and I’m in New Mexico.

[factoryrat]

The health insurance industry has adopted the same model as the auto insurance industry.

Regardless, all of the combined insurance industries have gone to the commercial bank model.

It’s no longer about insurance, and now it’s all about making a profit by leveraging premiums on the open stock market, while screwing over all of the policyholders using any excuse possible.

I would just drop ALL of my insurance policies altogether, BUT, the feds have literally made that illegal, that is if you want to drive or live that is.

The mafia are insanely pissed that they didn’t come up with this racket first.