Loading ...The unholy alliance of stakeholders in the healthcare industry feigned to roll over and cut healthcare costs. It is an alliance of insurance companies, drug companies, hospitals, device manufacturers, doctors, the SEIU (a healthcare workers union) and even companies that have the audacity to patent human genes (as if they made them). They say they will slow the rise of healthcare costs by one and half percent per year over then next ten years. They then go on to estimate that will save a total of 2 trillion over ten years.
Perish the thought of being blunt these days and uttering the unvarnished truth. The truth is that insurance companies and drug companies have raped the American public. They raise premiums and lower coverage all the while expanding their profits. It is nothing less than scandalous. They have usurped the decision making and judgment of the doctor to increase their profits and have managed to escape the responsibility of doing so. Doctors have a choice to expose themselves to vicious lawsuits by unscrupulous trial lawyers if they cave in or being severed from the insurance plans if they fight and resist. The sick are just a vehicle for profit.
Drug companies charge double the amount to Americans than they do to the rest of the world. While the public perception is of the all powerful doctor, it turns out the doctor has no power at all when arrayed against these forces. In the end, your doctor is your last advocate. Shackle him and you’re lost to the bottom line.