They still beat up on Obama for his Affordable Care Act, which he managed to snatch despite fierce opposition from the Republican warlords of money and greed, and which is but a speck of the changes that are needed in the pathetically expensive and ineffective healthcare system in the US. Its only success is on the stock market and the pockets of its managers and executives. When it comes to the average American patient, it's an abysmal failure.
Case after case that are publicized on social media, we hear tragic stories of American healthcare companies prioritizing profit over health and denying care to the average American who has been paying skyrocketing premiums. It didn't need a Luigi Mangione to reveal the backwardness and the raw capitalist fiber in American healthcare. Compared to healthcare systems all over the world, including in the developing world, the US is always at the bottom with its exorbitant costs and terrible outcomes. No wonder thousands of Americans choose to go to places like India, Brazil, South Korea and many other countries to have their life-saving surgeries at much lower cost and without having to deal with the disgusting practices of American insurance companies.
One telling feature of the US healthcare system is the bombardement of Americans on television with commercial after commercial for dozens of drugs, instructing them to "ask their doctor" if this or that chemical poison is best for them. Doctors who are themselves bombarded with bribes to prescribe one drug over another, as if healthcare is like a supermarket. The patient should not be asking their doctors; the doctors should conscientiously be prescribing what the science and ethics require them to.
The MAGA felonious imbeciles now want to privatize Medicare in order for the healthcare industry to increase its chokehold by whimsically denying care to the average American and make profits out of the Medicare taxes that we all pay up during our lifetime with every payckeck.
Despite all these failures of the grotesque corporate money-first healthcare insurance companies, they hide their shameful practices behind the scientific prowess of universities, academic institutions, and research government labs (the National Institutes of Health). The healthcare insurance companies have nothing to do with the basic research that goes on in these fine institutions and labs. In fact, the fundamental scientific discoveries made in these taxpayer-funded research labs are often used and abused by the healthcare companies and drug manufacturers in their abysmal profit-seeking ambitions. And now the MAGA crowd of neanderthals want to defund the NIH and National Science Foundation (NSF) because the Trump ignoramuses do not understand that without the basic research that these two federal institutions carry out themselves or sponsor in academic institutions, there would be no new leads for the greedy drug companies and their affiliated healthcare subsidiaries.
Read the below and shed tears at how American healthcare insurance corporations treat their patients worse than slaughterhouses treat their cows and pigs.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/-lived-health-insurance-companies-deny-cancer-care-patients-rcna182611
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