"The Price We Pay": Americans being sold into slavery

[Ruth]

"The Price We Pay" is a book written by Dr Makary who is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins University (he also has a masters in public health). Fraud and price gouging in public hospitals and health insurance companies is endemic and causing fear amongst patients. They fear going to the hospital, because they will get sued into bankruptcy on over priced bills and unnecessary costs. Many people are rationing their insulin because manufacturers have colluded over cost and sent it sky rocketing. These drugs are not under a patent, either.

 

[Yupo]

Excellent program. Gives hope.

 

[PERLOU]

En France aussi on a peur d'aller à l’hôpital surtout aux urgences...

In France too, we are afraid to go to the hospital, especially to the emergency room...

 

[SevenFeathers]

My fear of going to doctors or hospitals has to do with the harm that may result. Here's an abstract of "Death by Medicine", written by Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, and others (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237591129_Death_by_medicine):

A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million.1 Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics. 2, 2a The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. 3 The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million.4 The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251. 5

 

[Yupo]

My fear is mainly for the costs. The video has a discussion of the predatory air ambulance industry. $500K for a lift.