Secular Health Insurance Tax Scores Another Point (S.H.I.T.)
Guest post by Wil Martindale of Let Them Fail
As I have mentioned in several posts, the only thing needing reform in the present U.S. Health Care system is the predatory system of “Healthcare Denial for Profit” which interposes between patients and doctors under the pretense of “Managed Care”.
We refer you to American Patriot, House Representative Dennis Kucinich, as he aptly articulates this S.H.I.T. (Secular Health Insurance Tax):
Clearly, the insurance companies are the problem, not the solution. Because their massive bureaucracy avoids paying bills so effectively, they force hospitals and doctors to hire their own bureaucracy to fight (over the burden of costs). The result is that since 1970, the number of physicians has increased by less than 200% while the number of administrators has increased by 3000%. It is no wonder that 31 cents of every health care dollar goes to administrative costs, not toward providing care.
H.R. 3962 would put the government in the role of accelerating the privatization of health care. In H.R. 3962, the government is requiring at least 21 million Americans to buy private health insurance from the very industry that causes costs to be so high, which will result in at least $70 billion in new annual revenue, much of which is coming from taxpayers.
Ultimately, every administration since NIXON (interchangeable with the term “1970″ above) has accelerated the privatization of the Healthcare Denial for Profit Industry, culminating in this final “Holy Grail” of the insurance oligarchy, the requirement that all citizens pay their Secular Health Insurance Tax, or SHIT, as I call it.
But as I mentioned last month:
How do we find ourselves victim to the parasite of Globalism? By pinning our fate to a white collar economy of predatory “interposers” that feast on productive economic relationships. We have minions of white collar CPA’s, Health Insurance Administrators, Insurers, Investment brokers, Attorneys, Union Officials, Trade Professionals and Financial Professionals who increasingly interpose between parties to any economic production.
Kucinich merely cites one act in the theater of predators I have called out above–the hospitals attorneys battling the insurance attorneys. The lawyers and judges and administrators and claims processors are all just predatory players in the economic relationship between doctor and patient, with all the overhead costs of predation leaving the actual care of one’s health to dwindle away as a secondary or incidental outcome.
This is the very same dynamic that invades all economic activity in America. Not to disparage the role of a certain amount of needed paper pushers in the world, but we now even have predators for the predators in the form of credit counselors, preying upon the proceeds between the predatory credit providers and the dying debt-infected host. Wanna fix unemployment? Build economic models upon new forms of administrative predation. Nothing left to prey upon? Prey upon paper - there’s no end to the fantasy economy of paper. This is the American economic model. Don’t build, don’t invent, don’t cure, don’t repair, don’t discover, don’t heal, don’t work–just prey upon what’s left of those who do.
And let’s not forget the continuing administrative cost of maintaining this system of predation:
Overall, Blue Cross has spent $16,727,065 on lobbying this year, making it the fifth-highest spender on lobbying so far, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in U.S. politics. The center reports that overall health sector lobbying for the year so far is $396 million.
So as your government instructs you to “PAY Shit and die” (preferably in that order, and as a new twist on the popular EAT shit and die) is it any wonder that the restless are stirring?
As usual, the only place for the parasites to extract more blood-money is from their favorite host, the working middle class. Unfortunately, as with most parasitic relationships, the host eventually dies. So the question is, once the middle class is dead, what does the parasite move on to?
Nov 25, 2009 at 4:02 PM
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