American Medicine

And this is what it really is all about…

Savings Accounts for Health Costs Attract Wall Street
By ERIC DASH
Published: January 27, 2006

“When it comes to medical benefits, millions of Americans already have a health insurer. Soon, many will also have a debit card and a bank tied to their medical plan.
Banks, credit unions and money management firms are now quietly positioning themselves to become central players in the business of health care, offering 401(k)-type accounts to cover future medical expenses…”

You see, private companies that pay George W. Bush and his cronies billions of dollars in bribes and extortion money, cannot make enough profit on Government Programs unless they run the entire program. Sure they can make, 200% profit, but is that really fair? By becoming the owner of all the financial services related to medical care, the Banks and Credit Unions join hands with the HMO’s, Pharmeceutical companies, and Medical Establishment to control every facet of the highly lucrative medical care field. Afterall, people will always be sick and in need of medical care, so they will always be forced to pay for it. It is a never ending stream of money. Unfortunately, as long as the Medical Programs like Medicare are under the public domain, it is too easy to spot the glaring amount of theft and skullduggery. Banks and the Medical Establishment cannot have bad publicity and they gouge the last nickel out of the sick and dying. Gotta Privatize to hide the bribes!

Why do we hear negative things about that ‘nasty’ ole Socialist Medicine problem? Because even though Socialized Medicine works very well in almost every country in Europe, as well as Canada, the Oligarchs of Financial Wizardry in America couldn’t make enormous profits from it. So, they direct their minions, the mainstream journalists, to write stories unfavorable to Socialized Medicine. The curious part is that the one program we have that truly is socialized medicine, the Veterans Administration is actually doing quite well, despite the fact that Bush has significantly under-funded it by billions of dollars.

“The Veterans Health Administration's success story is one of the best-kept secrets in the American policy debate…”(Health Care Confidential. By PAUL KRUGMAN. Published: January 27, 2006. )

If Socialized Medicine is so bad, then we here in the United States must have a superb medical system, right? Ahh, that would be a 'no' there dear. The United States is currently 27th in the world in health care distribution and access to its people. 46 million Americans have no health care coverage at all. Do you get that number? 46 MILLIONS AMERICANS HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE AT ALL! That number alone should ring every alarm bell in investigative journalism in the country. Does it?

Medical care in the United States is the most expensive in the world. We have a broken health care system that is grinding out huge profits for the medical industry and the banking industry. It is a medical care system that speaks of the very worst of America and corporate sleaze, so why change?

The State of…Health Care
January 25, 2006
“By spending $1.7 trillion on health care in our country – roughly 15 percent of the nation’s economy – one would imagine the United States would have the best health care in the world, yet sadly this is not the case. We are in fact ranked 37th in the World. The reality is that the American health care system is broken. The number of Americans without health insurance has increased by 6.2 million, to 46 million..”.

The level of corporate greed and malfeasance in this country is reaching world class proportions, perhaps even historical. And you know, it doesn’t fucking matter that children sicken and die from inadequate medical care does it? Dosen't matter that American families incur generational debt just to pay staggering medical bills. As long as the republicans and their corporate masters rake in the dough, who gives a shit right?