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Monday, January 26, 2015

How Americans have turned their bodies into small Businesses

Just a couple years ago you would go to a doctor when you wanted to. If you got ill you had insurance through you job. Premiums were low, about forty dollars or even sixty bucks for a family of three. Every couple of weeks the money came out of your checks. Maybe your employer paid most of the premiums for you. You had a decent co-pay, under twenty bucks. Pharmacy costs weren't to bad. Lab fees were low. X-rays were forty bucks, one view. If you had pain you could be prescribed narcotics without any trouble. Your blood pressure medications were covered, the diabetic medications were covered.

Then a little something called Obama care began to hatch it's ugly little head. We all glanced at it and laughed, they will never pass it. Then the turning point came. Washington not only passed it, they renamed it, The Affordable Care Act. As if a major joke had been hatched. A short interview on 60 minutes with a man who spoke very much like he was from the middle east. Who said, "I just wanted to sell more insurance." He laughed, then said,"I never thought they would pass it."

And then, the nightmare began to unfold around America. Employers were dropping healthcare benefits. They now had five years to figure out how to cover their employees.

What used to be cost effective, became a forced health insurance sales frenzy. Premiums up from 40 to 100.00 and beyond. A family of four had to pay $6000.00 a month. Blood pressure medications and diabetic medications no longer covered. Deductibles were up to a whopping ten thousand dollars.

You went to the doctor for a pain medication and had to sign a form giving away your right to protest and say no. Then the charges came for urine drug screenings up to $1100.00 for one test from twenty dollars a test. Doctors, hospitals and labs all getting filthy rich. Not from good healthcare, from forced insurance sales. What was best of all? Not one single American got up to protest. 

You tried to navigate the massive insurance sales scams emerging. But there was no end in sight. Some states just dropped The affordable care act to create their own versions. To really help people out.
But the insurance sales wars had begun. And your body was now owned by your Doctor. He or she had ultimate say with what you did with your body. You were fat, you were told loose the weight or we will charge you more. You smoked, you were told, stop or we will charge you more. You were old over 50 and god help all those baby boomers they saw you coming around the corner. Now you were really going to pay for health insurance.

Trillions of dollars to be collected and President Obama had every intention on getting his. Kickbacks and bribes into the millions. Hush monies they called it. Whispers behind closed doors. Celebrations erupting; how the Washington big dogs finally got all Americans to become little businesses using your bodies.

Now, you had to buy insurance or face certain fines, certain rules at medical offices, and with the IRS threatening to take your refunds.
Doctors who were now in complete control over your body. And the bodies of your children and spouses.
You were paying, and now you were paying more than ever before. With an infinite amount of cash flow, why would Washington ever bother changing to a national heath care system we could actually afford that would significantly cut costs?
Why, when you can raise costs beyond the sky to reap huge massive amounts of money for these Medical professionals and their hospitals and labs. In turn you gave away your right to say, "No." If you said no you were charged more and more. Your body was now a small business worth millions if they could just keep you sick. But wait, we will let your state legalize pot so you will shut up and calm down.

If we create a unified national health program like medicare Doctors would no longer be millionaires. They would have limits and so would educational programs and so would everything else. But that can not happen because they wanted theirs. With education costs now in the millions. Why not steal from you and I? Why not be in charge of your bodies? You have failed to take the advice given. So Doctor and nurses  alone can dictate what you will and will not do? You can not afford to to not perform for them.

This is how  Americans all became small business owners in one vote from Washington to the Supreme court. Without any of the citizens getting to vote, on any part of The Affordable Care Act. American's have all become small businesses with their bodies. Welcome to the unsustainable American future. Using your body as a small business investment.

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