Saturday, March 25, 2017


The New Gilded Age
Robber Barons
Insurance is the Symptom; the disease is runaway pricing by the Medical Industrial Complex
DYI:  The Medical Industrial Complex is the underlining problem insurance is only treating the symptom of runaway costs.  This industry notoriously colludes in order to price fix; creates local monopolies and trolls individuals insurance to extract the maximum.  Hospitals and Doctors’ offices especially corporate owned will not publish their prices making it impossible to comparison shop based upon price and perceived quality.  All of these activities are ILLEGAL with civil AND criminal punishment that were passed over one hundred years ago taking on the robber barons of the gilded age.  The Attorney general Sessions must begin prosecuting in order to drain this swamp of vipers by enforcing the Robinson-Patman, Clayton, and the granddaddy the Sherman Anti-trust Act.  Health care prices will fall on average 75%.  That is not a typo! 

Legislation will be required to allow for reimportation of pharmaceuticals.  This basic business practice was made illegal due to the MASSIVE campaign bribes – I mean donations – rescind immediately.  By doing so; drug prices will easily fall by 50% for new drugs and upwards to 90% for generics.

Why Mr. President you are not going this route is a mystery as you managed over thousands of employees you had to be aware of the meteoric price increases from hospitals, doctor offices, and drug prices that is responsible for pushing up premium payments?  At the current average rate for price increases – 9% - the Medical Industrial Complex within 5 years will go from consuming 20% to 30% of GDP.  Triggering massive premium insurance payments whether it is Obama Care or some other form of insurance and causing Medicare and Medicaid to consume larger and larger share of the U.S. budget along with creating a health care induced moribund economy!

It’s time to drain the swamp and by the way Mr. President your new Attorney General must begin prosecuting the banks and Wall Street as well.
  DYI

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