The False Profits of “Health” Care
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The Healthcare industry is a big scam. Everyone knows it. Doctors joke about.
The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries — yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world.
At the heart of the problem is Big Pharma, which funds most clinical trials and therefore controls the research agenda, withholds the real data from those trials as corporate secrets, and shapes most of the information relied upon by health care professionals.
If you read the Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair you will discover the inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge — misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health.
Dr. John Abramson — one of the foremost experts on the drug industry’s deceptive tactics — exposes how one of pharma’s best-kept secrets is that the peer reviewers charged with ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the clinical trial reports published in medical journals do not even have access to complete data and must rely on manufacturer-influenced summaries. Likewise for the experts who write the clinical practice guidelines that define our standards of care.
It may be a joke to many but I’m not joking when I say my business here involves building my Heavenly Father’s Kingdom and I stand opposed to false profits in all shapes and forms.
Health Insurance companies face one of the most severe forms of judgement from the Lord because they are false profits (a scam). Most Health Insurance companies exist to separate the people they feign to serve from receiving the care they need.
In 2015, United Healthcare posted a profit of 5.8 BILLION dollars, making $6.45 per share of stock for their stockholders. That’s great if you own United stock, but bad if United carries your health insurance; their profit is nothing but the premiums you send in every month that don’t get paid out when you need or want care.
Jason Hall, MD, FACSJason Hall, MD, FACS, Plastic Surgeon at Trillium Plastic Surgery, is quoted as writing:
Not surprisingly, one of the strongest lobbies for the Affordable Care Act — which federally mandates that every citizen of the United States carry health insurance — was the health insurance lobby. Now you see why: everyone has to purchase their product. And, by limiting the amount of services you can use, or by raising your deductible so that it takes longer for them to have to pay anything for the services you use, they keep more of your money for themselves. That is exactly what happened.
Dear Barack Obama, thank you so much boss.
I’d like to share testimony of Cara Pressman, college student as of 2023, describing her experience with the insurance system:
At the age of 15, my doctors discovered a scarring in my brain that was causing seizures. They determined that it could be removed through laser surgery, which was much less invasive than shaving my head, removing my skull and sewing it back into place.
However, my insurance refused coverage and, of course, my family could not afford to pay out of pocket for brain surgery in this country. Instead, we reached out to anyone that could help us and ended up reaching a CNN reporter who published the story and got attention from thousands.
It was not until over a year later that I was finally able to undergo the operation and force the insurance company to overturn their first decision and cover the costs of surgery for not only me but anyone who needs it. I never thought I would have to fight my insurance company again, however, what I did not realize was that the fight never ended, and the deceptions continue every single day to people all around the country.
The U.S. healthcare system is flawed and nobody should be forced to pay millions just to stay alive and stay safe. Healthcare should not be considered a privilege — it is a fundamental right. But, sadly, there are no laws that define this, and millions suffer as a result.
A 2015 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that Americans with an employer-sponsored healthcare plan paid an average $4,955 in premiums (the employers paid the rest of the bill, which totaled $17,545 a year). And that is BEFORE each person met their deductible, which for most individuals is around $1,800 a year. A standard family plan’s deductible is around $3,300 annually for a family of four.
What that means is that if you’re an individual buying health “insurance”, you can expect to pay almost $6,800 out of your own pocket every year for healthcare before your insurance company pays anything at all. And when they do, typically they only pay 80% of the bill, leaving you with the remainder… and these are for the “good” health insurance plans.
If this sounds like a scam, that’s because it is.
The health “insurance” companies in the United States are no longer insurance companies — they are healthcare distributors. We send them our premiums each month and they, in turn, “distribute” those premiums back to you when you need healthcare. Actually, they “distribute” those premiums WHEN THEY deem you need healthcare and WHERE THEY allow you to get it.
Your insurance company, by controlling which doctors, hospitals, or laboratories are (or aren’t) in their networks, dictate where you get your healthcare, who provides it, and how it is provided. By choosing which services to cover and which services not to, the insurance companies are effectively dictating what medical care you receive and what medical care you don’t. They claim not to be in the business of taking care of patients, but by choosing when, where, and what healthcare services you get, they are, in essence, playing doctor (practicing medicine without a license, in case you were wondering, is a felony offense).
You, as the client of the insurance company, have to ask permission to get many healthcare services BEFORE you use them. Otherwise, the insurance company will deny payment and stick you with the bill — which has been drastically inflated because it was sent to them first.
And they have been doing this more and more — because of rising “healthcare” costs, they say, they need to clamp down on which services or procedures people get. How healthcare costs are rising (when, in a free-market, costs usually fall over time) and the difference between real costs and “insurance company prices” will be the topic of another article.
The American people every day grow further impoverished due to the satanic worship of false values and failed political leadership. We could blame the politicians but We The People have the power. First let’s get educated, get organized and enact real change: building heavenly businesses and new economic systems where this type of blantant fraud and false profiteering can longer exist. We are the solution to the problem.
