Yes , fuck the insurance companies.
THEY are the reason that our government , for decades , has tried to come up with an equitable system for everybody.
The problem is this.
The insurance companies are part of the government and there are too many in the swamp connected to them. It's the same with big pha rma and agri business.
The government mandates what you eat , knowing that most of it is poison , and then gives you a pill to treat what they made you ingest.
I'm all for good health care if everybody that is healthy enough contributes but the ease of getting gov't disability has resulted in an increase in cases that may , or may not , be legitimate.
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According to data from the Social Security Administration, more than 10.9 million individuals are currently receiving SSDI payments, compared to 7.3 million at the end of 1996. In other words, during a period when US population grew by 19.6 percent, the number of SSDI recipients increased by 49 percent. Combined with SSI recipients, the number of people receiving some form of disability compensation each month from the federal government increases to 14 million, which amounts to an annual expenditure of $260 billion."
http://www.cagw.org/media/wastewatcher/ ... ew-welfare"
Since 2003, there's been a 29% jump in Americans with little or no work experience getting disability payments, according to the Social Security Administration. Over the same time, there's been a 44% increase in disability claims by people formerly in the workplace."
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/11/news/ec ... -payments/Couple that with complicit medical personal , that live and breathe kickbacks from big pha rma , and a lack of affordable insurance , and it's a recipe for utopia for the ones with their fingers in the pie , and a disaster for us regular folks.
It should be a crime when your doctor orders chemo for you knowing that he buys the drug from big pha rma , and then sells it to you for a 400% markup. Especially when that doctor knows that chemo only works on maybe 5% of all cancers.
So how do you fix it ?
Sever the governmental ties and create jobs.
How do you maintain a stable workforce ?
Better education.
Both of those are crucial and both need major attention.
Create the jobs that will make people want to work. Jobs that maintain a healthy lifestyle that allows someone to afford insurance. Create an environment that rewards productivity and gets back to stable family units.
Keep the kids in school but don't just pass them to the next grade for the sake of more federal dollars. Make the kids earn that passing grade and you'll create somebody with a sense of work ethic.
This country needs a lot of work and for too many years we have relied on career politicians to tell us how dumb we are and how smart they are.
That hasn't worked so well.
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