Healthcare in America
It's all about making money, not paitent care...
It is almost time again for the United States to hold open enrollment for their own form of healthcare (legalized extortion) insurance! So let's take a quick look at how this works in a supposed world where it is taught to be a "smart consumer", to shop wisely and ultimately be satisfied with spending a given amount for goods or services. (I think they call it capitalism?)
Where is the Mafia now?
Sometimes watching an old documentary or investigative report on TV about the mobster days makes me wonder, “what ever happened to organized crime?” I can tell you this, it seems very clear that the extortion rings from bygone days are alive and well in the health insurance industry. At the very least it is incredibly clever of the 1% in how they are able to manipulate “their” system (it is in no way a system that benefits the masses and as such cannot be called “our” system) to harvest the maximum profits for themselves. Keeping the minions running on the treadmill is certainly clever but even more so in that they are able to legislate many of the tactics employed – making it legalized extortion. Even those tactics that are not legislated are in many cases unenforceable either because it is virtually impossible to litigate against the corporate behemoths or there is no desire from enforcement agencies in any real way to police the industry’s infractions.