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In the vein of improving myself and keeping a liberal knowledge of my field I have been studying up on an old subject related to medicine, healthcare.
Apparently, back in the 20th and 21st centuries if a man got sick or hurt through no fault of his own he had to pay for the treatment to make himself better.
There was a giant mechanism in place to make sure the man paid everything he possibly could. Not only that, this same system also pretty much guaranteed that he'd never be healthy again. This monster of efficiency and greed was called healthcare.
The main reason for healthcare was to make money off of people's misfortunes. Anyone who worked for a living had to have healthcare. They even made it a law!
The shadowy leaders behind healthcare even forced its own workers, all of whom had undeniably dreary jobs, to buy into a company's insurance so that, they, too would be bogged down by healthcare. I am truly glad no one but me can read this; there are a lot of archaic terms and concepts I'm flinging about.
Insurance consists of a promise of monies paid out to a doctor or hospital if a person was hurt or sick. The cost of the treatment was so astronomical that no one could possibly afford it. The best way for a corporation to make money off of a man being sick or hurt was to get a worker to give up his or her pay to buy in to some insurance.
After being treated the patient was probably so loopy from the cockamamie medicine of the day that they were never quite right again. And even if they managed to slip through the cracks they were kept in line. If a man got decent treatment healthcare kept him pinned down for years with bills, follow up visits, referrals, expensive untested and in truth dangerous drugs.
You almost have to sit back and admire such a behemoth, as savage as it is. If a man wanted to make money he had better find a way to destroy his fellow man with healthcare.
Luckily we're more evolved these days.