What's Happing to Medical Insurance and Why We are Being Scammed
These are lies, pure and simple. The conservative plutocracy has bitterly resisted any benefit that went to the bottom 90% of the people of this nation and done everything in its power to make the vast majority of U. S. citizens insecure, deeply in debt, and beholden to the whims of employers for their very survival. They want the elderly to move in with their children when they no longer can work and then die early for lack of decent medical care - to “reduce the surplus population,” as Ebeneezer Scrooge would say.
Let me put it plainly: modern American conservatism is dishonest and corrupt to the core. There is no truth in it. Conservative leaders are worse that con-men; their thievery is on a far more colossal scale, because they aim to impoverish just about everyone except the extremely wealthy and powerful. Once they have accomplished that, they will blame the losers in this class war for not working hard enough.
On such a pessimistic note, a recent article by Shamus Cooke on the website of the Centre for Global Research is worth reading for the insight into what the power elite is planning for the future delivery of medical care in the United States:
America's Great Health Care Takeaway
The article concludes:
Read and ponder. Then act.The above health care policies are the natural result of a health care system based on the principles of private profit. Corporate profits demand that companies provide the least amount of health care services at a minimal cost. From this vantage point, health care is a commodity that is bought by those who can afford it, instead of it being the human right of every person, as the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts. Europe has already proved that a nationwide, single payer system is vastly superior when it comes to quality, cost, availability, and results.
The single payer system did not come into existence from the benevolence of kind governments, but from the demands of people in the street. Organized workers must fight to maintain their benefits; unorganized workers must organize to fight for better insurance; and older workers/retirees must fight to maintain and expand Medicare. The logical end to such struggles would be to demand a Medicare For All system, financed by taxing the wealthy and corporations.