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Privatized U.S. Health Care’s Future—Unimaginable suffering

Mathematics, while cold and dry, is a precise science.  Using that precision in a CBS interview, the then head of the Government Accountability Office, Comptroller General of The United States, The Honorable David M. Walker forever put to rest the question of the need for comprehensive U.S. health care reform:

“I would argue that the most serious threat to the United States is not someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan or Pakistan but our own fiscal irresponsibility.”  He added that health care and other major programs in the U.S. are “unsustainable” and “we suffer from a fiscal cancer, it is growing within us.  And if we do not treat it, it could have catastrophic consequences for our country…it could bankrupt America.”

Our privatized, corporate-owned health care system will soon consume 25% of the entire U.S. economy.  Requiring a sum 500% greater than our looming social security crises, these corporations currently burn through 300% more dollars than all U.S. military operations and wars combined.  And they deliver the worst health care of all industrialized nations on Earth, while leaving 100 million of us without proper protection.  Unless we take corrective action, a few short years promise unimaginable suffering to millions of our citizens.

Privatizing this industry was a grave mistake.  We must reform our health care into a national, single-payer system, managed by local doctors but with strict government oversight and nationwide connectivity.  The health, well-being and safety of our citizens should never have been placed under the control of a few corporate executives with primary allegiance to profits.

Corporate Health Care America delivers the following results to the richest nation on earth:  50 million Americans without insurance; 50 million more underinsured; medical cost bankruptcies harming 700,000 U.S. children each year; 36% of our homeless are families who struggle desperately to find health care; 10 million U.S. children take mind-altering drugs promoted by our pharmaceutical industry; one million U.S. children are at risk of becoming autistic; one in three children are overweight or in danger of becoming overweight; our most serious epidemic is childhood diabetes; our veterans comprise 25% of the homeless, 11% being women; 35% of returning veterans suffer mental problems and the Pentagon states the majority of these battle-scarred youths, hundreds of thousands of them,  will be denied proper care.

Corporations, not doctors, dictate the direction of our health care and many head straight towards corporate profits.  They do this so well that studies by Boston and Harvard Universities show that 50% of all U.S. health care expenditures are wasted or stolen.  That money, one trillion dollars last year, is stripped from millions of our children, the poor, combat veterans, mentally impaired and the homeless--our most needy neighbors.

Some of the statements made here may seem harsh and might be considered sensationalism.  Unfortunately, they are all true.  The good news is that during five months of research on this subject, I found not only terrible details of what is being done to millions of our citizens but that a remedy to the problem exists as well.

Some of our brightest minds have already designed our required health care reform.  Of course, Corporate Health Care America is doing everything in its power to defeat any real reform.  Our Presidential candidates are reacting to this pressure by promoting partial reforms which leave Corporate America in control and will only lead to misery and suffering of our citizens on a massive scale.

Our real reform program, along with references and many details of what is happening inside of Corporate Health Care America can be found in an 11,000 word editorial on this website.

Even if our leaders continue in their abject failure to properly deal with the health care plight of a hundred million Americans, they’d better not ignore the horrors being unleashed by the most serious financial crises in the history of the United States; this mess is guaranteed to spill over into even their elite and well-insured laps.