Healthcare: What a Great Racket

Today I'm going to spend a minute or two in order to talk about the health care crisis. What health care crisis!!! It looks to me as if the health care industry is booming like never before. It's a great racket. Think about it...everyone makes money off of the sick person. The insurance company, the doctor, the pharmacy, the hospital, the drug producing companies, and they are all in on the racket. It is a business that Tony Soprano would be proud of, or maybe even the real Mob Bosses if there are any left out there. The AMA and CDC set the standards as to when a person should be medicated for a certain problem...who are they? Well, they are Doctors of course. These standards for testing are getting lower and lower each and every year and harder for the patient to keep in check, especially as they get on in age. For example it use to be OK to have a fat level in your blood of 200-225, a sugar level of 100-110, blood pressure 140 over 85, be appox. 50 pounds overweight, but not anymore...they want all of those levels lower...and how are they going to get them lower...prescribe a pill! There is a pill made by a pill company for everything under the sun...and they want to make sure that Doctors are prescribing them for every patient that they see. Then you have to go to the pharmacy to get these filled. You can bet that your local pill prescribing Doctors are well taken care of by the companies making these medications as well. Every direction that a patient turns someone is billing them for something. Each Doctor that treats you sends a bill even if they just step in your room and look at a chart. The hospital sends a bill, the pharmacy, and anyone that reads a specific test, it is no wonder that a person cannot keep up with the bills after a short hospital stay or procedure. This is just Crazy!!! I don't know how an elderly person on a fixed income can afford any type of health care in America. I have heard talk of the Government becoming involved in the process....that is all that we need....You want even be able to get a hang nail fixed then!!! I don't pretend to have all the answers....but there has to be a better way than this! It is no surprise to me that people go to other countries if they are going to have a major medical procedure done...usually a country with a social medicine program!!! Some of the side effects of the medications are a little suspicious also. Your anxiety medication will make your sugar go up, your fatty blood medicine will make your blood pressure go up, your sugar medicine will make your fat in your blood go up, your blood pressure medicine and several other medications will cause sexual disfunctions and E.D. and we all know the dangers of E.D. medicines on the heart. All I have to say is it is a hell of a racket and I wish I could get in on some of the profits...lol...lol!