Once our health care system became entirely a for-profit venture, the idea was to rage the worried well. And use far, far lower paid staff nurse's aides and often nurses, usually recent immigrants - to save money.When a physician objected, they suddenly became a not in the network provider. Many other physicians just left. All the while the corporate accounts and VPs for management created tiers of what people that really needed a drug or treatment had to pay as a co-pay. There is nothing this health care system thrives on more than a dying mother, father, or child to get families to pay out huge sums of money in the hopes they can keep them alive. But the system relied on younger, healthy people paying out substantial amounts of money. That assumed that younger, healthier people were being paid enough so that they wouldn't miss that money. But when has this country ever paid young people a decent wage? Unless they were part of the elite group the insurance companies wanted to cover anyway. Even the more compassionate states did everything they could to reduce and restrict Medicaid costs, as health. are and education have always been the largest portion of any of their budgets. We desperately need Universal Health Care in this country, and the political will to fund it while educating people that well and healthy people are in everyone's interest.
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