Comments on: 20 Signs That The Health Care Industry Has Become All About Making As Much Money As Possible

By: ken lusk

ken lusk — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:28:07 +0000

Their is no health care industry in the USA, their is a health insurance industry with health care workers.

By: Lyle Courtsal

Lyle Courtsal — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:29:00 +0000

Oh yeah, rightie, it’s always the government. Like when Bush didn’t regulate the banks, or when bush stopped state regulators from regulating banks; wait thats consequences of private sector deregulation, not government regulation. Who’s Brooksley Borne? Oh yeah, the woman who predicted the crash that took $700 bil. of your tax money into the private sector via Bush again. Yeah, you can keep on whipping the government horse, but really it’s just greed; if they can steal it, they will and screw you if you’re starving or dying of diseases. Again monopolies that extort as a consequence of de-regulation done under Bush-Reagan allowed the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of fewer and fewer people who cared less and less about what the socioeconoomic consequences are. Twas ever thus. Read Howard Zinn.

By: johnny

johnny — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:30:16 +0000

The need for strong, meaningful regulation is glaringly apparent but its not going to happen without a significant collapse in the economy because the politicians of both parties are bought and paid for by the big corporations.

By: Bub

Bub — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:02:56 +0000

Don’t fall in front of a hospital- They will come out and steal your wallet!

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:05:55 +0000

A few words. . .My boyfriend stepped on a nail a few weeks ago. Because he hadn’t had a tetnus shot since childhood, we knew we had to get one. We called the nurse on-line to see if it could wait until morning, as it was Sunday night, and my boyfriend’s insurance from his new job hadn’t kicked in yet. She said get to the ER, as he has a high risk of infection. So, for 15 minutes with a doctor cleaning the wound and administering a Tetnus shot–the bill was $843 dollars! I would have been shocked at that, but I pay $822 dollars a month for my employee health insurance plan that covers only me and my son. THAT’S 822 DOLLARS A MONTH!! And I wonder why I live paycheck to paycheck! The Insurance Industry is bleeding America–and when it’s got it’s fill–those who wanted the money will have it. Guess I wish I could go without insurance, but thanks to the new legislation–I can’t.

By: curtis batteiger

curtis batteiger — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:27:48 +0000

I wish to state to the comment and discussion from patrick. you are very naive. I work in the healthcare industry. and industry it is. most practitioners today view it as what it is–corporate healthcare. where I work employees are subjected to forced health screening to be eligible for health insurance, and this is within the hospital. administration follows direction of updates on laws and direction. This is followed protection of the industry. pre-existing conditions are sought through screening-and rates adjusted according to risk. also people are pressured to take prescriptions to keep rates in a low risk price range. in many areas such as diabetics, you pay through the nose for items that you must have–glucose test strips for example, I can go on forever this issue, but fact is people who speak as yourself show bias because as a broker would advice a client to buy stock in a economy that sinking shows he is in the business, and looking to cover his end, what is your end, patrick?

By: jc

jc — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:06:25 +0000

Sammy,

The point is not to end up on the gurney. The fact is, most drugs are highly toxic and very damaging to the liver and other organs, including the ones that seem to do what we expect them to do.

Sure, if I break my leg, I want a doctor to put it back together. But I don’t want to be butchered or poisoned, which is quite common. I go for natural solutions and, funny enough, I rarely get sick. The best doctor is one I never have to see.

By: A Sunbeam

A Sunbeam — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:04:07 +0000

From my viewpoint we need 2 things:
1. Single Payer Universal Healthcare.
2. End the Medical MOnoploly and start seeing Acupuncturists, herbalists and nitritional Healers (among others). Not only are they more cost effective – but often far more effective at Healing!

By: Sammyone

Sammyone — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:28:20 +0000

Face it, Andy, the world is a messed up place. But one of the jewels of Western civilization is the advanced state of her medical arts.

My point is that we cannot throw out the baby with the bath water. I can match horror stories with you on family members and friends that have received terrible care. But that does not obviate the fact that if we are not careful many of the wonders of science that save lives of hundreds of thousands each year could be in jeopardy.

More importantly, the continued advances of medicine could be halted by short-sighted efforts to rein in medical industry costs.

There is no telling what the future of medical science could yield to man. The lamest argument I ever heard for curtailing expenditure on the medical field is, ‘Sure, they saved my life. But it cost so much.’

If we remove life style illnesses from the equation, we are the healthiest and longest living society we have ever been.

How much is that worth?

If you were lieing on a gurney in an emergency waiting for a just-invented life-saving procedure or waiting in a doctor’s office to receive the latest drug to save your life, I think I know what the answer would be.

By: Andy Brooks

Andy Brooks — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:55:04 +0000

Sammyone, it seems your family are quite lucky indeed. There are many MANY other hospitals out there who don’t care about the patients. Check the following links for evidence supporting the lack of competence of many hospitals, and bear in mind these are just a small percentage of cases.

http://www.naturalnews.com/028993_waiting_room_hospital.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310988/Coroner-hits-doctors-hours-patients-dies.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1143182/Heart-patient-died-left-waiting-TWO-HOURS-outside-hospital-A-E-department.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5284151&page=1

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/06/20/2008-06-20_patient_dies_waiting_for_bed_at_kings_co.html

I DO care how much they make for it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad your family received the care every other individual in the world should receive, but the fact is many do NOT receive similar treatment. These days the reason behind the majority of paracetamol/aspirin like drug (scientifically proven placebo) development is primarily for profit.