Re: MEDICARE - Don't Lose It


Beachettara wrote:
It' s so weird and sad that a rich and healthy country like yours,The
United States, doesn't provide medical care for poors, or at least it
costs too much momey that poor people cannot afford it!

Quite true. Over the past 25 years or so, our medical system was
systematically invaded and conquered by profit-making organizations
which are not interested in health care except as a method of making
money. They simply inserted themselves between paitients and their
doctors, and made themselves the gatekeepers of medical care, for
instance, by taking away medical decisions from medical doctors, and
giving to clerks and accountants the right to decide when and what
medical care is needed.
Many, although not all, of these self-described "medical care
providers" are now busily funding legislation to consolidate their
future profits by taking money away from medical care of the elderly
and giving it to drug companies and their own for-profit medical
conglomerates. That is the reason one of our most powerful politicians
is a member of a family which owns several very large medical
businesses; his presence in Congress has allowed drug companies to
force legislation which will divert billions of dollars directly to
profits, while sharply rationing distribution of life-supporting drugs
to the population..
With the backing of an unrepresentative legislature, the drug- and
medical companies continuously publicize disinformation that pretends
to show that there is not enough money in the U.S. economy to allow
medical doctors to profit by their own expertise, or to choose
effective treatments for their own patients. That is, medical doctors
are being reduced to the status of employees and technicians

Here in Europe, fortunately, things are not like in the U.S. and I'd
love to see one day medical care extended to anyone in the society!

Thanks for your good wishes. Many Americans also appreciate the
example of Europe and Canada as our models of governments that do not
treat their own people as a conquered nation from which money is
extracted and to which medical care rationed.
At the moment our medical system demonstrates - although no such
demonstration was needed - that in the absence of responsible
oversight, ruthless greed can cripple the delivery of medical care.

Thanks for your attention.

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