The American healthcare system may be the only industry in the country where you can consume a service without ever being told the price beforehand, then receive a bill weeks later that looks like a ransom note assembled by a cartel of accountants and insurance executives. Imagine taking your car to a mechanic, ordering dinner at a restaurant, or hiring a contractor to renovate your kitchen only to be told: “We can’t give you the price until after the work is done because we need to negotiate it with a third party behind closed doors.” People would laugh you out of business. Yet in medicine, this absurdity has been normalized to the point that citizens barely question it anymore.
What makes it even more insane is that the actual customer, the patient, is often completely removed from the transaction itself. Instead of transparent pricing between provider and consumer, healthcare routes everything through an opaque middleman system involving insurers, hospital networks, pharmaceutical benefit managers, and government reimbursement formulas that almost nobody understands, including many doctors. The result is a market where prices are effectively fictional.
One patient gets billed $400 for a procedure, another gets billed $40,000 for the exact same thing, depending on what labyrinthine insurance contracts exist behind the scenes. Hospitals post absurd sticker prices knowing insurers will “negotiate them down,” while uninsured people are left holding the inflated bag. It’s less a functioning market than a Byzantine shell game designed to obscure accountability at every level.
In short, it is corrupt to the core and plays games with the most important thing people possess: their lives.
@RogersLaur78876@Roper_Lab@_Postive_Vibes As a physician prescribing those, everyone was getting better with either ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. I can think of 4 of my patients who did Covid shots and they are all dead. “Doctors are baffled.”
Nick Shirley says it’s getting harder to investigate fraud for a number of reasons
- He’s become very recognizable to fraudsters because of social media
- Fraudsters are on high alert right now because of his reporting
- Fraudsters are covering up the fraud
- some fraudsters are taking what they’ve stolen and leaving America
Impact
- The Federal Government shut down over 500 hospices in California. Not a single hospice has said, hey, open our hospice back up.
- In Minnesota, they froze $250 million of payments for childcare there. Not a single daycare sent a single receipt
- They just raided 22 daycares and other welfare programs. Not a single mother complained about her child not being able to go to a daycare.
The real problem is none of the politicians who have let it happen have been held accountable. Not a single one
@JonelleElgaway I see chronic pain patients and I have now been blocked by Costco Walgreens and Smiths. CVS is probably going to block me soon. All this does is force physicians out. class action lawsuit coming!
Bret Weinstein on Ivermectin and the accidental experiment no one wants to talk about:
"80 cases. In 40 of those cases, the courts granted the family's request and Ivermectin was administered. In forty cases, they refused to intervene and no Ivermectin was given. In 38 of the cases where Ivermectin was given, the patient survived. In two, the patient died."
"In 38 of the cases where no Ivermectin was given, the patient died. And in two, the patients survived."
"So what that means is that chances of a result that if Ivermectin does not work are something like the chances of you guessing a random 15-digit number on the first try."
They called it horse paste while families begged in court for a shot at survival and the numbers don’t lie. Why was a result this statistically impossible ignored by every major health authority?