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USA healthcare is always in the newsand the news is never good. Recently, it’s been looking catastrophic. Healthcare cuts and possible cuts are making an extremely bad situation worse. Eventually the overload will simply destroy the healthcare system.
Even a superficial glance at US healthcare statistics from all sources is horrendous. The US ranks dead last in healthcare compared to peer nations.
A new tuberculosis outbreak is looking particularly grim. TB is a very high-maintenance condition. TB doesn’t take prisoners, and is highly contagious. Treatment takes a long time and is, as usual, highly expensive. Exactly what Americans and the American health system don’t need.
I spent some time working in the US healthcare sector as a writer for a nursing site. The topics were mainly in-house professional subjects. It was horrific. The worst case I saw was of a nurse who got a staph infection in her own hospital, and lost limbs in just one day at work. It could have been easily fixed if the hospital had acted quickly, and it didn’t.
This is the stuff you don’t hear about. It’s anyone’s guess what the overall picture is.
America used to have the best healthcare system in history. Now, you can barely find any of what’s left of it under the overpriced insanity. It’s going backwards, fast. It’s been systematically and deliberately dismantled.
It’s been a long process of degradation going back at least five decades. Claims are rejected in plague proportions. The basic costs have been out of control for at least two generations.
Preventable deaths per year in the US healthcare system are estimated to be 44,000 and 98,000 per year. That’s roughly two Vietnam Wars per year.
Staff are abused and otherwise mistreated. Working conditions are appalling. The regular stampedes of experienced staff out of the sector are at folklore status.
People in the sector have been talking about it for that long, too. Even the idea of affordability is apparently some heresy to the buzzard-brains running the sector.
Ironically, the US also has an extremely high level of medical science. Wherever you are in the world, the odds are good that at least part of your treatments for anything either originated or first entered the global mass market in the US at some point in time.
Now add the shining benevolence of Big Pharma to this incredibly disgusting situation. Healthcare seems to be the last thing on the minds of this bloated sector. Ineffective medications are another highlight. If you’d like a few weeks light reading, hit that link.
Let’s move on from the obvious. If there was ever a case of “hallucinations by numbers”, US healthcare is the definitive example. Try this bit of logic:
Big money is made in healthcare.
Therefore, people being sick is good for business.
Therefore, being the sickest country in the world is the objective.
From this degree of rampant idiocy follow:
Anti-vax means more business for healthcare.
Sick people can be productive people.
Sick people are safe on the roads.
People with psychoses desperately need systemic neglect.
Sick people should be free to spread diseases in the workplace and in public so we can make more money.
They can’t afford treatments anyway, so we won’t have to worry about them for long
This is the same mentality that mismanaged the pandemic. The current death toll is 1.2 million as of January 2025. No other country on Earth did anywhere near that badly. Brazil, land of mystic favelas and sparkling poverty, did much better.
OK, now a straightforward question.
What are you going to do about it, idiots?
