Our health care system is run an operated by large very deep pocketed industries, namely the Pharmaceutical, Insurance and the federal regulatory agencies that regulate them. I want you to think about that last sentence and realize what that means exactly.
It means that the Pharm and Insurance industries run the entire health care system of the United States and they have the Federal authorities to support them. How? 60% of the funding of the FDA comes from private Pharmaceutical funding. Not only does that create a conflict of interest the staff of the FDA are often employed by the very industry they are regulating. Meaning that the federal employees who get government pay, also get a pay check from the private sector. Also the CDC is staffed, funded and employed by the Pharmaceutical industry.
The FTC also appears to be totally in the pocked of private industry behaving like a MOB enforcer making it difficult for the competition to get a toe hold in the market place in any meaningful way. The entire system is completely in shambles and those who are making all the money are running the show from the federal regulatory agencies to the insurance lowly adjusters making decision on which 'sort' of care is covered and which is not.
If a doctor is very adept at writing prescriptions he is likely to get paid very well, but if you are a doctor actually doing what you are supposed to and looking after patients...you can bet you are not getting paid much if at all.
Obamacare is a massive step in the right direction, hence the extreme resistance that it has encountered. It's mass as a piece of legislation is one of the biggest arguments against it. Being that it is the only health care reform to occur in the united states in the better part of 90 years, it has to be in order to correct the grossly out of date methods of health care that were established in 1910 by the pharmaceutical industry as a means of making it more and more money.
The time has come for change. The entrenched and highly placed, morally reprehensible, heathen souls in our system are not prepared to lose the paychecks that go with holding a literal monopoly on the most expensive health care system in the world, ours.
It would be nice if you the consumer woke up to that fact.
Wakey Wakey....
