The United States healthcare system is so astoundingly corrupt that it’s a wonder people aren’t protesting in the streets. The simple fact is that you can work hard all your life only to have everything you’ve acquired stripped from you the moment you fall ill. Prices are so out of control that people cower in terror at the thought of losing their jobs and health insurance. Even with insurance, you’re not fully protected.
More and more politicians are speaking out about the necessity of health care reform. However, at the first sign of any reasonable proposal, the opponents are there to scream “socialism” and “nothing is free.” These arguments are often disconnected from reality, but they have an extreme effect on the voting public.
One thing that’s overlooked when people say “nothing is free” is that we do, in fact, give away our blood for free. Without the generous donations of the general public, our healthcare system could not function. The question is, why do we allow a system that is dependent on our freely given blood to exist as a ruthless, for-profit entity? The health care system acts as if they are entitled to our organs, our blood, our lives and all the fruits of our labors. It’s obscene.
Handling fees for blood
One of the most offensive components of our health care system is that it’s never clear what things cost. The public often scoffs at the idea of income based fines for legal transgressions, but they don’t seem to have a problem with the concept of income based hospital fees.
Hospitals like to claim that they don’t charge anything for blood, but that’s the equivalent of a CEO for a non-profit charity who pays himself five million a year and has nothing left to give to the poor. The simple fact is that our free, donated blood offers hospitals multiple opportunities for unfair price gouging.
We all know that if you are offered something as simple as a napkin at a hospital, six months later you’ll receive a bill in the mail for $500. The prices are not in alignment with the services received. The profits hospitals earn from storage, handling, etc., would not be possible without our blood. Therefore it seems fair that hospitals should split these proceeds with the donors. The simplest model for a fair system is universal health care.
Our healthcare is not free market
Conservatives always insist that free market capitalism is the best structure for an economy. The idea is that prices are naturally controlled by competition. Any business that attempts to charge a price outside the market will lose customers and eventually cease to exist.
However, it is odd that conservatives seem to be willfully ignorant of the fact that we do not have a free market healthcare system. When was the last time you went to a doctor for a procedure and elected to go to a competitor because the price offered by your primary provider was too high? It has never happened. This is because doctors in our system hide the costs until they have you on the hook and then they come at you with merciless legal aggression.
Obscene insurance costs, the loss of worker protections, and surging hospital bills create a perfect storm that will lead to a rise in bankruptcy. In many cases, people are so afraid of hospital bills that they don’t even go to a doctor when they feel sick. When serious illnesses go undiagnosed, it leads to preventable, tragic death.
Our blood is our life
We need our blood to survive and we give it away for free so that our healthcare system can function. We also allow hospitals to harvest our organs so that our fellow human beings can survive in the event of a terrible tragedy. We make these agreements in good faith, and the healthcare system responds by billing us into oblivion.
It is distasteful to be coerced into participating in such a malicious system. Every time you donate blood you do so with the knowledge that while you might save someone’s life, you are also condemning them to the inescapable servitude of fulfilling unreasonable medical debt. They might lose their home, they might lose their life savings because a hospital took advantage of your freely given blood to manufacture fees to gouge them.
A blood strike for healthcare reform?
If the public stopped giving blood, a massive component of our healthcare system would grind to a halt. The years that doctors spent learning their craft would be rendered meaningless. They need our free donations. We are an integral and fundamental part of the system. They cannot function without our generosity.
It doesn’t seem right that anyone associated with healthcare should be allowed to buy mansions and live lives of luxury while the people fundamental to their ability to work are condemned to poverty and oppressive medical debt.
A blood strike, however, is not a practical solution. Like all things, the response would be to leverage the damage and redirect it against the poor. While existing supplies ran out, the elites would continue to receive the life saving transfusions from the exploited poor, and the poor would be allowed to die off in droves until the “revolting peasants” learned their place and began willingly allowing their bodies to be drained once again.
Harvesting our bodies in the name of personal wealth
Most Americans are willfully ignorant about the true oppressive nature of our healthcare system. The elites are literally bleeding us dry. They have conceived a system that pushes the prices and profits to such a level that the general public exists on the border of despair. The simple reality is that healthcare is an unforgiving overlord that constantly threatens to destroy our progress in life. The modern age is not the first time that individuals in power have felt entitled to harvest our bodies for their own personal gain.
Elites have always been willing to rip teeth out of a skull, or take blood from a vein, not for the purpose of preserving life, but to feed their hunger for personal profit. The majority of the people in our nation are good, compassionate individuals who try to do the right thing. Unfortunately, the system is controlled by evil entities that do not have compassion as their primary focus.
We need healthcare reform now
Insurance fees are absolutely out of control and most of the general public seems to be in denial about just how much they pay. Any effort designed to reduce these fees is met with cries of socialism, but why do these same protesting voices fall silent when taxpayer money is given to hospitals? Here’s an example from Wisconsin that came in the spring of 2020.
So, in addition to paying unreasonable insurance fees and donating our blood for free, we also have to allocate a significant amount of taxpayer funds to hospital profits? This cannot be allowed to continue.
Healthcare costs are the number one threat to your freedom
The simple fact is that the US healthcare system is so corrupt that it should keep you awake at night with fears of losing everything you’ve ever worked for.
Nonsensical arguments that reforming healthcare amount to “socialism” ignore the fundamental reality of how the system operates. Healthcare needs a tremendous sacrifice from the entire public, we are already doing our part. We give our organs, we give our blood. It is an unspeakable injustice that the wealthy elites that glean untold profits from this system have concluded that, in addition to our compassionate donations, they are also entitled to every penny we will earn over the course of our lifetimes.
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