Their Plan for Your Future: The Medical-Military-Industrial-Media Complex

Their Plan for Your Future:

The Medical-Military-Industrial-Media Complex

One of the biggest drags on the American economy right now is the high cost of health care. Americans pay more for health care and get less for their money than almost any advanced Western country you can name. The current plan for expanding health coverage, called Obamacare, is merely a bandage put on a gushing wound. It doesn’t address the main problem, which is this:

Why is the cost of healthcare rising so rapidly? What is driving the increasing demand for more and more health care, at greater and greater costs?

The easy and rather simplistic answer is that more and more people are using the health care system. But no one seems to know why we are becoming less healthy than our parents, or even our grandparents. Are we truly less healthy? And if so, why?

Some people claim that poor diet and little exercise is the main culprit. This is partly true, but I believe it masks the greater problem.

Let me explain the real problem, using this true-life example from http://perezhilton.com:

Medical supply providers are scamming the system by selling cheap sex toys as expensive medial aids

“Apparently Medicare payments for the $338 devices have increased by over 500% within the last decade, but erectile dysfunction may not be to blame — seedy sellers are!

“The government is happy to allow Medicare recipients to use their coverage for penis pumps as long as a doctor prescribes the device as "medically necessary," but they aren't thrilled to be paying for penis pumps that people aren't even using!

“Investigators have been challenging more than $8 million in payments made for the devices over the last four years that may have been completely fraudulent. For example, a company in Florida sold 75 pumps to male and female Medicare patients to collect a total of $28,000, but those pumps were NEVER even shipped!

“In another case, an Illinois supplier bought penis pumps off the internet that were the equivalent of cheap sex toys, then reshipped the products to Medicare recipients who didn't ask for them. Medicare was charged a rate almost 11 times what the shady supplier initially paid for the pumps, let alone what they were actually worth.”

My own father, who is 84 and suffers from dementia, was sent one of these aids; and Medicare was charged over $450! A similar device sells on the internet for $49 or less.

This, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with healthcare in the United States. Medical device salesmen, Hospitals, Pharmacies, Pharmaceutical companies, etc., etc. have learned how to game the system. They are learning how to pump money out of insurance agencies, Medicare, and everywhere else; and they learn faster than the government or the insurance agencies can react. And every time the government figures out a way to lower costs, lobbyists for the Medical industry lobby Congress to change the rules and stop the government from implementing effective reforms that might slow the gusher of money pouring into their pockets. Both Congress and the White House are getting political contributions to make the system work more inefficiently.