Your money AND your life?
Post #496
Street thugs often give you the option to choose between two outcomes:
Your money or your life.
If you give them your money, then they let you live. But circumstantial evidence suggests that the U.S. medical community may be currently overrun by organized crime lords, given how much we pay them for healthcare, but how truly poor the result we receive currently is.
In other words, they appear to be taking both our money and our lives.
Another name for that is medical fascism, and if you pay a lot, but don’t achieve health and furtherance of life, then it is suggestive that you live under medical fascism.
Check out the graph of U.S. life expectancy versus the amount spent on healthcare:
In over 180 regions of the world, life expectancy goes up by a certain amount for each new dollar that you spend on healthcare.
But that result assumes that your medical system is not overrun by organized crime — people who are willing and able to keep you sick on purpose, because there is more profit from that.
Another indicator of medical fascism is the number of years of health versus what is spent:
Due to the high amount spent on healthcare, and the poor results obtained, there appears to be medical fascism in the United States. A parallel system of healing will likely become required for those interested in maintaining health and life inside of the USA.
In organizations and social systems in general, there is a point at which the corruption is so pervasive that it becomes impossible to remove. It appears that, in the USA, we’ve reached that point in medical care.
Critics and detractors may claim things like we smoke more, we drink more, we eat more, we drive more, we kill each other more, etc., but when true, each difference is somewhere around 5 yearly deaths per 100,000. These things may help explain, but they do not themselves explain, the big difference.
For instance, our extra deaths from car accidents would be somewhere around 5 more per 100,000 than other nations, etc. — but the actual underlying death difference which needs explaining is over 100 extra deaths per 100,000.
Nobody pays as much and then dies like we do, which, in itself, is circumstantial evidence that our poor results are not “unintended and accidental” in nature.
Reference
[healthy life expectancy] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthy-life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure-per-capita
[life expectancy] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure-per-capita