Posted on 04/11/2025 3:45:37 AM PDT by davikkm
The goal of the healthcare industry in the United States is to take as much money away from you as possible. I truly wish that I was exaggerating, but I am not. Can you guess which nation spends the highest percentage of GDP on healthcare? Without looking it up, you probably already know that it is us. Gigantic pharmaceutical corporations and massively bloated health insurance companies are raking in colossal mountains of cash, and yet the quality of the healthcare that we receive in return is rather quite poor. People living in Albania, Panama and Kuwait have higher life expectancy rates than we do. Residents of Belarus, Cuba and Latvia have lower infant mortality rates than we do. We are the most medicated population on the planet and yet we are also one of the sickest. If the U.S. healthcare system was a country, it would have the 6th largest economy on the entire globe and yet rates of cancer, heart disease and diabetes continue to soar.
The numbers that I am about to share with you are absolutely stunning. For as much money as we spend on healthcare, we should have the greatest system in the world by a wide margin.
But we don’t.
We have lost our way, and I don’t know if we will ever be able to find our way back.
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bkmk
Thank you GOPe for doing NOTHING except flush America down the toilet the first two years of President Trump’s first term in the Oval Office when you had the chance to repeal this monstrosity of socialism and corruption, aka Obamacare. These RINOs will never be forgiven.
I bet most health issues are self-inflicted:
Obesity
Cardiovascular (not enough exercise)
Diabetes -
Too much sugar
Perhaps you should blame Obummer and the rest of the rats for creating Obummercare. It takes time to undo messes made by the rats. And Pres. Donald Trump is not a rino. RFK is going to be a big thorn in the Pharma racket. Patience.
Drive the independent practioners out of biz.
Truss health systems to the government teat.
Refuse to allow needed increases to the number of slots for medical students.
Ensure that there’s no reform of medical malpractice law.
Regulate the health insurance industry so that it serves the State’s needs instead of its customers.
We now have a de facto NHS.
And ours works as well as the UK’s does.
Medicare destroyed balance.
Physicians are now corporate, not patient advocates.
“A man cannot serve two Masters”. The patients don’t
Pay the bills, the insurance companies do. The physicians get paid by Hospitals, which are owned and controlled by conglomerates, often under insurance companies.
Congress has taken the money from the physicians and reassigned it to Insurance and Hospitals via lobby. Those acts killed private practice, and killed patient and health advocacy.
Honest Independent Physicians have been forced into
Employment by 1. Insourcing 2. Re-imbursement rates cut every year for almost 3 decades that weren’t really balanced in the first place 3. Not pot
Profits that abuse the 501 status by controlling for profit entities.
The US government declared war on private practice physicians, and now the balance is gone. Nobody really cares about patients, it’s corporate and about the money.
Did you forget Bush’s EMR regs in the Porklus...?
Those sent the independent doc the way of the dodo.
Yup. Lifestyle dysfunction trumps the healthcare system every time. Recently returned from a week in Italy. After mingling with crowds of Italians, not to mention tourists from the Middle East, Japan, and other nations, then going through the Detroit airport, I saw clearly the dramatic difference in obesity among Americans vs Italians and others. No one could miss it.
One of the major reasons our health care is so expensive is due to the invasion of legal and especially illegal foreigners. Go to any emergency room and it will most likely have several illegals getting free health care. U.S. citizens are paying higher premiums to pay for the freeloaders. Obummer care caused this mess. “Free health care” is not free for those who work and pay taxes.
When medicare came in, almost no one had health insurance. After it came in, everyone wanted health insurance and when the majority of people were no longer footing the bill themselves, those bills started rising. As a result, we have what we have now.
From chiropractors to brain surgeons, the medical industry is robbing us.
Too much sugar does not cause diabetes.
A patient cured is a patient lost.
And an employment center for the lower rung hamburger flipper wanna bees.
Getting past the front door of a medical care facility has become an education in itself , since the so called affordable health care bilk was thrust upon us with lies and great cost and grift.
Who pays for all the special taxi cabs transpouting all the privileged to and from their! Appointsments?
After the Obama unaffordable care act went into effect where the anti-constitutionalist SCOTUS Judge John Roberts ruled that the fine for not buying it “a tax”, things have only become much much worse.
And incredibly the Biden regime of treason as well as the Rat/RINO uniparty of treason had no issue with giving tens of millions of criminal foreign invaders free healthcare.
Agree. Too much salt. Too much fat. Too much sugar. Too much booze, and to many drugs legal and illegal, and not enough exercise for sure. Hardly anyone cuts their own lawn or weed whacks for themselves. Don’t even get out and shop as much, order everything from Amazon or other online shop. Sit around the tv watching crap, eating nachos and drinking beer or soda. Working from home also, with a fridge full of junk nearby. The influx of illegals who go to the emergency room and don’t pay, or get freebies that we pay for. Hospitals have closed down due to too many illegals. Lots of problems with bad habits and also crooked ins. companies and big pharma. It’s a mess all around.
We don’t have a Medical Care system, we have Obama’s Medical Insurance system - and a drug dealer.
This is a bogus comparison. Those countries count children we try to save as still born.
same as it ever was.
yup! but you are missing a large part of the scam.
ridiculously over exercising, running, HIIT, Cross-training, etc leads to many chronic pains, tears, joint wearouts, herniated/ruptured discs.
just like ridiculous things done just for fun. sky diving, bungee jump, various things that are not necessary parts of life that can easily go wrong.
I’ve seen too many people who think it’s some sort of badge of honor to get knees, shoulders replaced. just selfish will and pride = screaming muscle tightness to the point of some things got to give.
I’ve had people I know do stupid stuff and cause themselves physical, internal or external issues, even death.
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