America's Inanse, Immoral, Unconscionable Health Care System

No other country in the world does health care the way we do.

And it's killing us. LIterally killing us.

But first, it bankrupts a lot of us. Crazy when what is supposed to be your "health care system" is actually murderous. No?

Meanwhile, This Is Going On

 While a man-child tries to ignore, deny our votes, election and Democracy, this, too, is going on.

Robert Reich    @RBReich    Nov 21

Walmart made $129B in profit last year, but at least 14,500 of their employees receive SNAP benefits. 

McDonald's made $11B in profit, but at least 8,780 employees receive SNAP benefits. 

Execs are paying workers poverty wages to boost stock prices and line their pockets.

Ain't America great?

We Can't Have Universal Health Care

 No, universal health care will never work here. Not in the United States. It's just not workable.

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God help and forgive us.

Forgive our stupidity. Our inhumanity. Their greed.

America's Obscene, Grossly Immoral Health Care System

 I just saw this out on Facebonkers.

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The rest of the industrialized world all has universal health care but not the good, old, proud, stupid Americans, oh no. We not only have the only health care system completely tied to profit and profits but we have, by far and away THE MOST EXPENSIVE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. 

Yes sir and ma'am. Far and away the most expensive. 

U.S. Healthcare: 

Most Expensive and Worst Performing

And complicated? 

Heck we have a system mostly for the elderly that's so difficult, companies and organizations actually have to create systems and places and events for people to LEARN how the whole system functions.

Additionally, finally, at least here, today, the US is the only nation, also, the ONLY nation, in the world, where citizens go bankrupt, broke, from and because of medical bills.

The only nation.

Additionally, it is the NUMBER ONE CAUSE of bankruptcy--medical bills---at roughly 40% of all bankruptcies in the nation, consistently, year after year.

Insane.

We Americans. We're "exceptional" all right.

Exceptionally stupid. Exceptionally proud. Exceptionally gullible.

Yay, Capitalism, huh?

Ain't we great?

Donald Trump, in a Nutshell, in One Photo

Thanks, Republicans.

Our Obscene, Highly Immoral, Bankrupting, Even Murderous Healthcare System

In the past week, quite by accident, I've heard two different stories from two completely unconnected people, women, as chance would have it, about health care travesties. They highlight, very well, the ugly insanity of how we do health care.

The first was from a woman who said she worked full time at a law office and for her family's health insurance, she paid $600 per month.

That's it.

That's the whole story.

One person, one woman, trying to support her family and the best her company--heck, our nation--could offer her was to pay $600 per month for health care insurance.

She rightly and truly pointed out, too, that this didn't include the huge, thousands of dollars minimums she'd have to pay first if there were any health care needs nor does it include the co-pays.

That alone is, as the headline says, obscene and immoral.

Is it any wonder health care costs are the number one cause of bankruptcy in this nation?

The second example was from a co-worker, by chance, this afternoon. I heard her talking that she had, some time ago, gone to her doctor's office and had some sort of health care episode of some kind. She was in her doctor's office by coincidence, for something else, entirely. The doctor's office was physically attached to the hospital. One could go through the hallways to get there.

Once she started having this "episode"--I don't know what the ailment was--they told the doctor's staff, naturally. That staff informed the woman they would not only call an ambulance but that--get this--THEY HAD TO CALL THE AMBULANCE.  She couldn't go through the building or even go around to the front door or something. An ambulance had to be called, she had to be put into it and be taken to the emergency entrance.

So that's what happened.

And because of that, she was billed $800.

$800 for an ambulance trip, AROUND THE BUILDING, not even a block, that took seconds.

This is a woman who doesn't make a great deal of money, ladies and gentlemen.

We seem to not have any sense when it comes to health care in this nation. We're all about companies and corporations making loads of money and having big profits but we don't care about the costs.

Again, WE ARE THE ONLY NATION THAT DOES THIS.

We, the US, are the only nation in the world that ties health and health care to profit and profits.

Consequently, we are the only nation that has citizens that go bankrupt due to health care costs.

We are the only nation that has people die because they can't afford treatment. We are the only nation that has people die because they can't afford insulin, as just one perfect example.

We just are not very bright. In spite of what we tell ourselves.

Link:

Americans are dying because they can’t afford insulin

What People Don't Understand About Our National Defense Spending

What too many people, too many Americans don't understand or realize about our obscene, absurd, very bloated and extremely wasteful defense spending.

It's actually making us weaker, as a nation.

The Reason Our Healthcare Is So Outrageously Expensive

We're just not very bright.  We put companies and corporations and profit and profits ahead of people and people's needs.