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SpankMe

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12. I'd argue it's being used as a cash cow - profit center more than social control.

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Wed Jul 5, 2017, 11:26 AM

Jul 2017

Like the stock market, the whole medical care system in the US is a utility used o leverage money out of a certain class of people - to wit, anyone who has or wants medical care.

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The problem with healthcare in the US is that, on the macro scale, it's not used for medicine [View all] ck4829 Jul 2017 OP

Exactly. We have a class based health care system. Yavin4 Jul 2017 #1

Do not overlook healthcare in the U.S. being run largely by for profit corporations. Freethinker65 Jul 2017 #2

Centralization of healthcare is yet another factor ck4829 Jul 2017 #3

Seems that is an outline for class warfare. NCTraveler Jul 2017 #4

I know that the class war has been going on for a long time ck4829 Jul 2017 #5

According to Warren Buffett, the war is ongoing... Wounded Bear Jul 2017 #7

We do not have a health care system in the US... Wounded Bear Jul 2017 #6

DURec leftstreet Jul 2017 #8

No. We get great healthcare and we spend a lot on it sharedvalues Jul 2017 #9

Oh it's good, but suppressed by this control. ck4829 Jul 2017 #11

We expend a lot of resources to treat bucolic_frolic Jul 2017 #10

I'd argue it's being used as a cash cow - profit center more than social control. SpankMe Jul 2017 #12

It is also used to fuel powerful Oligarchs' profit engines. n/t TygrBright Jul 2017 #13

You stumbled upon the original arguments against social security and medicare IronLionZion Jul 2017 #14

What we are fighting DownriverDem Jul 2017 #15

That's all secondary. On the macro scale it's used mostly for one thing - to generate profits. thesquanderer Jul 2017 #16

Imo, an anti-Democratic trash piece in both senses of the word. Hortensis Jul 2017 #17