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America's "Healthcare" System Is Now a Structured Financial Skim/Scam
"Healthcare" grift, graft, fraud and financialized skims / scams will bankrupt the nation.
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. Before we dig into that, here are a few of the dozens of posts I've written on "healthcare" since 2008:
U.S. Lifestyle + "Healthcare" = Bankruptcy (June 19, 2008)
The "Impossible" Healthcare Solution: Go Back to Cash (July 29, 2009)
Why "Healthcare Reform" Is Not Reform, Part II (December 29, 2009)
Sickcare Will Bankrupt the Nation--And Soon (March 21, 2011)
How Healthcare Became Sickcare (March 18, 2022)
