What would you say if there were entities looking to subvert your well being? Organizations that ruin your health and destroy your finances? What if the only way you can keep them at bay is spend over $1000/month? If you don’t pay up they send a bunch of enforcers to harass you on a daily basis. These organizations through massive lobbying efforts are in collusion with the government.
That’s the experience most Americans have with our medical system. Looks like we are stuck with it too. If we can’t get a better system during a freaking global pandemic it just ain’t gonna happen.
Considering what’s at stake it makes sense to treat the medical industrial complex as the bad actor it really is.
There are a huge number of health care workers trying to do their best in broken system. They are victims of a bad system too. How many doctors spend more time dealing with paper work than patient care? How many medical tests are done, not out of medical necessity, but to provide legal protection or to generate income? When hospitals close patient wings to replace them with administration areas you know something is wrong.
Once you accept the medical system is not your friend you can act accordingly. Fighting them head on doesn’t seem to work. We’ve been unable to gather enough political pressure to fight the system directly. Guerrilla tactics are our only recourse.
Ideally staying as healthy as possible to reduce interaction with the medical system is the best but even perfectly healthy people have to pay huge insurance payments. What if you can’t do that and eat too? Then you take chances.
If you get sick and need treatment, remember, they can only ruin your credit once. After that they’ve lost a lot of leverage. Never give them all your phone numbers. I only give out my home phone number and then let the answering machine screen all calls. Nobody in officialdom gets my cell number. You also might want to keep assets out of banks where they can be found and attached. Remember, this a fight for your life.
-Sixbears
Having been in healthcare 45 years I won't disagree with the assertion that the system is FUBARED. It's run more by pencil necked geeks and elected morons than by people knowledgeable about actual health. And those who must do must wade through mountains of BS foisted on us by those who make the decisions. Having said that probably the BIGGEST factor in America's poor health is PERSONAL CHOICES made by the customers of America's healthcare system. Americans eat too much, eat the wrong things, drink too much, smoke...both tobacco and other chemicals and lead a far too sedentary lifestyle. Those choices are the primary cause for almost ALL health problems Americans' face. And they expect a quick easy cheap fix for their diseases....which they spent decades acquiring.
ReplyDeleteThere's no money to be made with healthy living.
DeleteIt's a racket. If your procedure was billed at $8,000, they will try to get every nickel of it out of you. But if you have insurance, the insurance company will pay them 10-25% of that and the medical providers will take that with a smile. So, in effect, the system is set up so those who can afford insurance will pay the least and those who can't will pay the most, or be forced into poverty.
ReplyDeleteI'll never understand why we haven't rolled the tumbrels.
One day it will probably collapse under its own weight. Funny how the rest of the developed world usually has better care for less. It doesn't matter how good US care is if you don't have insurance.
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