Monday, July 3, 2017

Is The Health Care System Rigged?

Is the healthcare system rigged and, if so, by whom?

The rich in America control or have rigged every social institution/system in their favor, and against the poor.  The rich are getting richer at an astronomical rate.  Both the income and wealth gap are widening.  Congress is largely controlled by lobbyists for the rich (Isaiah 10:1-2).

Obamacare's fundamental weakness is that it did not figure out how to control health care costs which continue to explode.  This undermines even the good aspects of Obamacare.

Repubcare/Trumpcare will not control health care costs either.  They will reduce Medicaid costs, Yes, but not health care costs.

So America should repeal Obamacare and replace it with Medicare for All.  Give Medicare for All power to negotiate drug prices.

Or forget Repeal and Replace and instead Repair Obamacare; give Obamacare power to negotiate drug prices.

The good side of badly needed regulations is that potentially they can reduce rigging by the rich.  But I suppose many times the rich will rig the regs or rig the lack of effective enforcement of the regulations.

In NT times, the rich also rigged the systems, even the Sacred Temple, the religion-politico-economic system.   Note Luke 6:24:  "Woe to the rich."  When the rich rig the system, they oppress the poor, even if they utter 'Shalom, shalom' or 'the Law, the Law' in the process of their rigging.

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