Hijacked! America’s Health Care
by Over 50 years ago, domestic terrorists took control of your health care and have taken it where we don’t want it to go.
Those we as a public have entrusted with our well-being – have sold us out. Every day the death toll with the equivalent of 747 flying into a skyscraper occurs in the US. The culprits are, not surprisingly, our elected representatives, the health insurance companies, and the drug makers. A bit of a surprise, but all the same culpable, is the American Medical Association. These four entities have joined forces to take over the most important and intimate piece of our lives, our health.
Decisions made at levels above the doctors office dramatically affect your life and the quality of it. Yet because of the control exacted over doctors by the insurance companies, sanctioned by the AMA and written into law by politicians have systematically shifted control of health care from your hands.
22 years ago I lost my wife Nancy to cancer. Fifteen years later I discovered she was as much a victim of the managed or rationed health care system as she was of the cancer. Since that day I have devoted much of my life to unraveling the Gordian Knot of health care delivery – what most people call health insurance. I have accrued the equivalent of knowledge of PhD in health care delivery. I have studied the history of American health care, the path of American health care and the psychology of American health care. This is a complex, dissonant, corrupt and deceptive industry that each year consumes more and more dollars and controls more and more people. At the time the PPACA became law 18% of the US economy was being swallowed up by the health insurance companies and the federal government for third party health care administration. In the six months since that law was passed the total has increased to 19%.
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Since 2000 health insurance premiums have increased by 125%.
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Doctor reimbursements by third parties both government and private have decreased by 40%.
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In 2005 more than half the country (51%) was on a daily maintenance prescription medication.
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In 2005 a RAND Corporation study concluded that only 50% of the time do patients get the care they need.
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Medicaid is going broke and Medicare is so grossly underfunded that it will never be viable.
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Medicare and Medicaid deny more claims and ration more care than any other third party.
With all of these facts on the table our politicians arbitrarily decided that they could “fix” the system with reform. The very same groups that broke the system all stepped up to plate to break it harder.
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