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Mark Cuban’s new drug company exposes billions in government overspending
US "healthcare" is just another faction of the mafia.
We called a friend in Athens – a native of that stunning city – who met us at the dock. We drove straight to the ER of a major hospital. Because of Covid they allow just two people to enter; I waited outside while our friend escorted her. He knew his way around.
What happened next was a string of utterly incomprehensible events.
The hospital was bustling, yet my wife was seen by a physician within 15 minutes. She texted me that the doctor thought it was a torn ligament but wanted an x-ray. I reflexively settled in for a three-hour wait. We’d been wondering about the cost on the drive over and we were prepared to put thousands of dollars on a credit card, carefully taught by American healthcare to anticipate “super-bills” for later (usually futile) submission to Blue Cross. Back home, the cost of healthcare pricing radically fluctuates from modest high range to the outright gouge. I was prepared for the worst.
In Athens, the examination, x-rays included, was $190. Fifteen minutes later, she texted that the x-ray was done – but how? How could that be true? – and an MRI was already scheduled at a different location. I thought ahead, as I’d been trained: the drive to another place, the waiting, the MRI, the more waiting... an estimation of three to four hours at the very least, that is PCSHT (Pacific Cedars-Sinai Hospital Time). Our kind friend took us to the facility, where a man in a white coat was the “guard” outside; he looked exactly like a doctor on a break. We were allowed to park in front of the building the entire time that we were inside; no glowering men in police uniforms shaming and shooing us to a dank ten-level parking structure.
After 40 minutes, we left with a CD and photographic images of the MRI results. The cost: around $275. ...
We arrived at the ER at around 830AM – and were out by lunchtime. We had our meal in a lovely restaurant in Piraeus, overlooking an azure sea. The fish was glorious; but the anger and shame of what the American healthcare “system” has become was awful.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/mark-cubans-drug-company-exposes-billions-government-overspending
Mark Cuban’s new drug company exposes billions in government overspending
US "healthcare" is just another faction of the mafia.
That's super-cheap compared to the US:
https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/infographic-how-much-does-a-hospital-stay-cost
You are your own best health advocate.
Everything is more expensive these days, from gas to groceries. But lost in the headlines are the skyrocketing cost of ObamaCare, its impact on inflation, and the fact that Democrats want even more control over our nation’s healthcare system despite their record of miserable failure.
Consumers were famously and repeatedly promised lower costs with ObamaCare, but there was little attention paid to the fact that the Affordable Care Act could only function with a steady stream of billions of dollars in government subsidies. The corrupt corporate media hasn’t mentioned it much in recent years, but it’s still there, and it’s going to have a big impact on November’s congressional elections.
Why? Democrats want to increase those subsidies to prop up ObamaCare and — here’s the outrageous part — to fight inflation. If you’re thinking more government spending causes inflation, you’re right. Leave it to the Democrats to create a bad situation and make it worse.
To keep the money flowing into ObamaCare, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law in 2021. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the massive spending package includes subsidies that will “cost a whopping $30 billion in 2022, an amount 50% above the amount CBO projected one year earlier. Obamacare’s total subsidy cost will be about $90 billion in 2022 — $60 billion for the original and $30 billion for the expanded component.”
El Salvador is way ahead of the US in promoting the interests of its citizens instead of the interests of the medical mafia.
I don't do sugar so my teeth have been great.
I don't get how people have so many ailments. I don't go to the doctor for anything. I did have a seizure recently, but it's that and I fractured a heel a couple years back, summer 2020. I don't take anything and eat and do what I want. I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel pretty damn good. No longer have any heart burn. Eat what I want. I'm at a decent weight for my age and activity.
I see a slow down already in the 40's. But my immune system won't be going anywhere in 10 or 50 years. Preventative/healthy living. Plan on being one of those Arizona elderly I see still hitting the gym and trails at well into retirement.
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