Prior to
1964, US healthcare was affordable. The
two events that changed this were Vatican II and socialist government subsidies
replacing charitable contributions from the wealthy. That corrupted the system by abandoning the
law of supply and demand. The healthcare
cabal went wild spending $trillions with little improvement in finding
effective treatments or cures. It was a bandwagon hoax. Real medical
breakthroughs come from independent individual researchers. The discovery of penicillin in 1928 was the
last effective contribution to healthcare.
From the
1600s, most hospitals were owned and operated by churches and non-profit
charities. Orders of Catholic Nuns owned many hospitals and the Nuns were
trained as Registered Nurses. They raised money for expansions and kept
hospital costs down.
In 1962,
the Catholic Church held the Second Vatican Council and changed the role of the
Laity and the Clerics and changed their liturgy. Nuns and Priests left in
droves. Catholic hospitals were facing a crisis in future costs and sold these
hospitals to corporations.
In 1964,
Lyndon Johnson established Medicare and Medicaid. The US healthcare complex
wanted expensive equipment and wanted to establish medical specialties. Government
subsidies removed healthcare from the law of supply and demand and costs began
to quadruple.
Most
families had health insurance through their employers and in the 1960s and
1970s, the total cost of delivering a baby in a hospital was $600.
In the
1980s, health insurance averaged $1800 per year, but was 80-90% subsidized by
companies. Counties closed their public health clinics, illegal migrants
flooded the US and all went to hospital emergency rooms. Hospitals shifted this
indigent cost to paying patients, out-of-pocket medical costs were no longer
tax deductible and costs continued to quadruple.
In 2009,
Obama passed Obamacare and costs quadrupled again. Now in 2019, the cost of
health insurance for a family is $12,000 per year.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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