America's "Healthcare" System Is Now a Structured Financial Skim/Scam
Posted by freedomforall 2 days, 4 hours ago to Government
Excerpt:
"I've been writing about America's healthcare system for 18 years, emphasizing two enduring themes: 1) our lifestyle is unhealthy, with predictable consequences and 2) healthcare as it is currently configured will bankrupt the nation all by itself.
This recent article on how having a baby without complications now costs over $44,000 adds a third theme: the tragi-comic insanity and absurdity of the "healthcare" system that has been normalized, as if this is the only possible way to organize healthcare:
"And They Wonder Why The Birth Rate Is Declining": A Mother Went Viral For Revealing The Costs Of Being Pregnant In America:
Lastly, Kayla reveals that her baby received a bill, too, which added up to $12,761.30 without insurance. For their family of five now, the cost of insurance per month is $2,500 -- a nearly $400 increase from when they were just a family of four. "We're still waiting for him to process on our insurance," she explains, "so, for now, this is the cost without it."
One user said, "America's healthcare system is a joke... how does the newborn have a $12k bill?"
It's more than a joke--it's travesty of a mockery of a sham of a system that actually improves health. There's an even darker side of the picture--the takeover of the system by financiers and fraudsters--which truth be told is a redundancy.
We can now add a fourth theme: stripped of purposeful opacity, America's "healthcare" system is nothing more than a structured financial skim/scam. "
Read the article for details.
"I've been writing about America's healthcare system for 18 years, emphasizing two enduring themes: 1) our lifestyle is unhealthy, with predictable consequences and 2) healthcare as it is currently configured will bankrupt the nation all by itself.
This recent article on how having a baby without complications now costs over $44,000 adds a third theme: the tragi-comic insanity and absurdity of the "healthcare" system that has been normalized, as if this is the only possible way to organize healthcare:
"And They Wonder Why The Birth Rate Is Declining": A Mother Went Viral For Revealing The Costs Of Being Pregnant In America:
Lastly, Kayla reveals that her baby received a bill, too, which added up to $12,761.30 without insurance. For their family of five now, the cost of insurance per month is $2,500 -- a nearly $400 increase from when they were just a family of four. "We're still waiting for him to process on our insurance," she explains, "so, for now, this is the cost without it."
One user said, "America's healthcare system is a joke... how does the newborn have a $12k bill?"
It's more than a joke--it's travesty of a mockery of a sham of a system that actually improves health. There's an even darker side of the picture--the takeover of the system by financiers and fraudsters--which truth be told is a redundancy.
We can now add a fourth theme: stripped of purposeful opacity, America's "healthcare" system is nothing more than a structured financial skim/scam. "
Read the article for details.
"Healthcare" grift, graft, fraud and financialized skims / scams will bankrupt the nation. Thanks to the purposeful opacity of the complex funding streams, we can't even figure out what is actually "care" and what's just another skim / scam.
Our starting point should always be: this is not the only way we could organize "healthcare." We could have a rational, transparent, competitive and affordable system. But to get that, we first have to completely dismantle the current system, and everyone skimming billions will fight with all their billions in campaign contributions to stop that from ever happening. As a result, the nation will be bankrupted by greed.
The articles declaration: It isn't the care it's the ownership, that inflates the bill.