Let me tell you a little secret about the healthcare industry. It's a business, a profitable one of that investors. Possibly you see,The nurse and like most healthcare workers ever, believe anyways. I want to do good and make people healthy. But being involved in healthcare over time, the growing business of keeping people sick has been harder and harder to ignore. All you have to do is turn on the TV and see a magical ad about a new pill that will change your life and cure all your problems and relieves a headache better than any other ant acid. It'll solve all your issues. Maybe even turn you into Superman. Each year, pharmaceutical companies spend tens of billions of dollars in advertisements. Now take it now, take it.
Big Red Flag from 2005 to 2015 ceos of hospital salaries went up by 93 percent where the typical healthcare worker like US nurses, doctors leapt tes only went up by eight percent which barely even matches inflation in a given year wait. This doesn't really make sense, so how did it become a business? How is it a business?
Really I need more money, so in order for hospitals to become this big business, they remove the buyer from the buying process with insurance companies. Once you don't have to pay for things up front, people can get away with charging more and more for every single level thing without the buyer really noticing and you can see the same trends with loans for cars, student loans and college. When you sort of remove the buyer from having to pay up front, prices just continue to rise and I see it all the time in urgent care. There may be a patient who really needs an ambulance, but they refuse it because they know that their insurance company won't pay it and they know that ambulances cost a craftpom.
A lot of insurances don't cover these little fun. Wee will rides, and if they don't cover it, you'll rack up a pretty big penny. The narrative lies. They tell you that this product will want too healthy. This product will change your life, cure your diseases. But really we are sick and getting farther and farther from the natural world in natural food. And now everything is really just chemicals and butterflies, but not really butterflies, because all of the butterflies are dying and being replaced with concrete. One morning I was pouring creamer into my coffee. When I took a look at the label. I noticed that the brand itself was actually controlled by a different company.
What the hell this is Nestle and that brand was Nestle? You see the funny thing is almost everything is owned by just a few brands. So that means most of the food we eating is controlled by just a few certain companies. And to keep their businesses going, they need to make cheap products that are good tasting. What does this mean for you? This means yummy processed and addictive food that is cheap to produce because cheap to produce equals more profit. Addictive means you'll buy more. It's a win-win man. Victor lives on cheeseburgers and cheeseburgers alone. I love burger. They control the narratives and so you think these foods are healthy for you when in reality our bodies are just getting overloaded with empty calories. All these foods that we're not used to eating are making us sicker and sending us to the hospital perfect. They make these ultraproceed gross foods. They make these fake meats.
What the hell is this and then they try to convince us that these are good for us. Little do they know their Weber Patty was actually made from plans. I think someone put a notebook in my sandwich. They controlled the news, the media, the advertisements and it kind of brainwaves us to believe that this is what we should be eating when in reality these are new creations that are not healthy. It's no wonder that obesity rates continue to rise and healthcare prices are higher than ever. This equals.
A good business is incomplete without a good business model and the medical model is a fantastic business model. The medical model is to treat symptoms. Don't cur the problem. This would mean you never would return instead, just treat the symptom for now, this will keep you coming back when your problems return and then all of a sudden you're taking a pill for life. See a dock for ten minutes. Get a pill.
Get Bill three grand and out the door peace. It's not. The workers of the staff to blame workers are well.
Tired you know they make it seem like healthcare workers are heroes. Amazing love their jobs. When really healthcare workers are sick, burnt out and unhealthy themselves from stress. Lack of sleep.
And lack of time to take care of themselves. Hospitals, clinics, anything healthcare related, operate understaffed and overstressed, but possibly on purpose. They're squeezing the life out of the healthcare workers so they can get the biggest money returns. They dish out less money for workers, and they take more money from the patients, which equals more profits. And when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, they're trying to get the most bang for their buck as well. Increased profits. The price of drugs in America cost a ton more than they do in other countries. Why is this well? It's because of how complicated the pharmacy industry is in America, the role that insurance plays and PBM plays. There's so many players that everybody needs a little bit of a cut, and in order for everyone to get enough money, they have to skyrocket the prices.
Making the patient pay more. There's so many middlemen in the process that it makes the price of the drug at the counter when the patient buys it just absolutely skyrocket. One of the biggest money makerss out of all is the insurance companies. Hospitals have gotten away with raising prices since the only thing you're really concerned about is how much your monthly insurance premium is. The main issue.
With this and with health insurance is that insurance doesn't cover a lot, it doesn't cover what you all need like nothing and part of the way this happens is through big hospital chain merges and acquisitions. Community hospitals get taken over by big business healthcare companies and that's why you'll notice there's a ton of hospital chains that kind of rule all over the place. It's sort of a monopolization of hospitals and healthcare.
Every year hospitals overcharged millions, if not billions. I've seen a ton of numbers around it and I see it in urgent care as well. Just coming in for a COVID test will cost you around 300 dollars because the test itself is 100 and 50 and then meeting with a provider is another 100 and 50. I broke my wrist and paid thousands of dollars because health insurance doesn't cover shit. CT scans, x-rays. That stuff is expensive and then you meet with a provider for like a minute and it cost you 300 bucks. What's also crazy is huge. Investment firms like Black Rock and Vanguard dip their toes into the medical system and have more control.
Then I even know more than anyone really knows. They have a huge power over the price of things in America. Money is super powerful and the business of keeping people sick seems to be pretty lucrative.
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