The Healthcare Industry Is Mainly NOT Considering Our Health…
The Healthcare Industry is mainly concerned with making a profit using sophisticated gambling strategies while providing healthcare benefits as an afterthought — maybe.
I’m not a Consumer
I’m a free person!
“Yeah, right…”
Add sarcasm here.
This is a simple logic argument with two premises where healthcare and healthcare insurance went from being a service to being a predatory profit high growth business. M ore on the two premises a bit later.
Context is required here.
“Greed is good.”
We cannot take healthcare as a service and healthcare insurance out of the context of an insanely profit driven system that puts the health and well-being of 100% of humans’ at risk. And it isn’t just healthcare its — well everything is at risk. It’s the snake that eats its own tail. And we are all to blame.
In the Oliver Stone film Wall Street, the character Gordon Gekko said “Greed is good.” Stone was tapping into the zeitgeist of America and the origins of predatory capitalism that was building towards the insanity that is now — worldwide. (Although most governments see Healthcare as a Human Right -except for the good ‘ole US of A).
How it has happened — here are some factors involved (but not all):
- World-Wide Corporate Power exploded with deregulation under President Reagan.
- Representative Governments sell-out to Corporate Power
- The USA Republicans became the tools of Corporate Power under the free-enterprise system
- The Democrats followed the Republican sell-out model beginning with Bill Clinton’s second term as President
- The Republicans have been plotting to end the Democratic control of the Country by whatever means necessary — enter Trump the ultimate tool of Corporate Power and corruption
- The Baby-Boomers — for the most part dropped out of politics for the New Age movement or Spiritual Development at the expensive of political activism for the most part. Other Boomers became millionaires and even billionaires while others just went along with the status quo (“Our leaders will take care of us,” attitude because we elected them and we’re under the illusion that they represent the people.) Or lost faith in government after Nixon and Watergate. Subsequent generations have just gone along with “the status quo”, until very recently (finally right?).
What has been happening and where the Climate aka World-Wide Health Crisis originated (but not all):
- Free-market capitalism will police itself. Well, only in terms of maximizing profits in the short term. Pollution? What’s that?
- The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) was signed into being by Nixon but was never given real power to effectively stop polluters from polluting.
- And we — former citizens — made into consumers by the facts of capitalism in its extreme, continued passively to accept polluting technologies.
- No one with maybe one exception has raised the issue of what is a healthy planet — Patch Adams and how the health or non-health of the planet has contributed to human beings’ health.
- Why healthcare is a human right? Corporations and the citizens / consumers have made blind choices to the worship of money, profit and greed to an increasing toxic world for the sake of increasing comforts and convenience
- Consumer passivity — who has time for activism when you’re working two jobs and so is your partner to provide for your family. (All part of the oppressive / suppressive oligarchical design aka keep the consumer in-line and blissfully ignorant.)
- And the upcoming mass extinction event coming to a multiplex near you or maybe too close to you.
The two premises are:
- Healthcare Industry is a gambling industry based on the odds that you will not fall ill. Their job is not to pay for your claim regarding your illness if at all possible. Their primary aim is making money, their secondary aim is paying for your partial healthcare costs.
- Health does not occur in a vacuum. It’s related to an environmentally balanced world. A planet that receives toxic substances grows increasing unbalanced until its systems require balance. If a number of humans or all the humans are eliminated the planet will seek to rebalance her/him/itself. Thus, the upcoming mass extinction event.
Healthcare as a human right. Water belongs to the people. A Bill of Rights for the Planet. These are antithetical to the world-wide corporate cabal and needed for the survival of the human species on the planet. Get the idea? Billionaires have their bunkers while we all perish, but they will have to come out and do the work for themselves or have their robots do it until the batteries can no longer be re-charged.
Is it too late?
Maybe or maybe not. We’ll never know unless we go for it.
When is it ever too late to relieve suffering?
Never is my answer.
All the systems of modern life are synergistically related to: human healthcare; the health (toxicity) of the planet etc.; income inequality; substandard justice; mass incarcerations; the USA continually at war; Machiavellian Politics and the use of the scapegoat to name a few. At a time where worldwide cooperation is needed to provide community solutions to the Climate Crisis the fomented atmosphere of the US of A is every person for themselves — and blame problems on non-white groups mainly immigrants, the LGBTQ community, and religious groups such as Muslims. This mentality has infected every element of our culture. Fear, anger, rage and sometimes violence has been promulgated to keep people divided and oppressed. The corporate has secretly promoted an “us versus them” to keep government from doing anything that would assist her citizens.
By the way, the internet aka Social Media provides the illusion of immediate solutions the same way people solved all the problems of the world in coffeehouses by just talking about it. So many of us go ballistic when politics doesn’t keep pace with what we want. We’ve been lured into an either / or dynamic of seemingly quick change. A change in politics takes a long time, although when our money is effected voting patterns foster seeming changes.
