The Future of American Healthcare is BLEAK

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Single payer healthcare is on the way. Here’s another watchdog on Wall Street. See, I told you so moment circa 2009, 2010. Told you it was coming. In fact, Barack Obama told you it was coming. He let everybody know that, you know, quite frankly, we couldn’t, he couldn’t do universal healthcare. He couldn’t do a single payer system. People wouldn’t buy it back at that time.

They would do it incrementally by wrecking the current system that we have and that is Obamacare. The funny thing is, is that the public is so brainwashed.

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I’m trying to be kind. really am. The ignorance is just extraordinary. It really is. You know what it reminded me of? I was thinking about it. There was the movie Idiocracy. And in the movie Idiocracy, they couldn’t figure out, okay, and you gotta understand the movie, it’s way into the future and people become dumber. And then people in the future, they’re putting sports drinks. They’re using it as rather than water for the crops.

and they think this sports drink, Bron-Do, is fantastic because it’s got electrolytes in it. Again, it’s the same thing, same concept when it comes to Obamacare. Everybody just thinks it’s awesome. Awesome. it’s awesome. We got all these people covered. Really? Then how come all of you people who love Obamacare, you love Obama, how come you guys were taken to the X and to social media?

and to blue sky and all those other places that you hang out at and applauding the fact that you had a CEO shot, healthcare CEO shot last week. we hate the insurance companies. They’re terrible. They’re awful. And then deny and they do this. Who did that?

Who did that? You did that. You did that. And the funny thing is it’s become, well, it’s become a bit of religion on both sides. There’s no effort now to repeal Obamacare. Neither party, neither party, it’s become another, in essence, political third rail. People think it’s great, but they don’t know why. They think it’s great. you left us out. You love Obamacare.

You think it’s fantastic. I’ve got coverage. Look what I got. I got coverage. And? And what? You’re okay, fine. You’re not paying much. You’re getting subsidized on your premium. You gotta pay over a $5,000 plus deductible good luck fine that a doctor can go on and on and on, but you have it.

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Anyway, it is it’s it’s amazing to watch.

We got into a point right now and it was a great piece today. I got to give credit to Alyssa Finley in the Wall Street Journal and the Op-Ed pages covering some of this and making some really good points where, you know, she actually talks about how one of the CBS News medical contributor, this Celine Gounder, basically said that these people are that are saying all these terrible things that, you know, they’re happy that this guy was killed.

They’re saying healthcare is so inaccessible and unaffordable, people are justified in their frustrations.

When did this start? yeah, yeah, that was 2009, 2010. I’m gonna, little bit of personal experience. just moved to Florida in September and one of the things you have to do is you have to find new doctors. At least for my wife, it’s a bit of a priority.

I quite frankly over the past several years in my experience, I could care less, quite frankly. I do what I do. I get my blood tested every six months, see what’s up. don’t, I go, you gotta go there. gotta have an internist, gotta have this, gotta, no I don’t. I’ll be fine. Last time I went to my doctor and I knew I was sick, because I only go to doctor when I know I need to go to the doctor.

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They were telling me I’m fine and pumping me with a butyrol and all this stuff and yeah, it almost killed me. I was supposed to be the hospital because I had blood clots because of stupid COVID vaccine. That’s another story for another day. But anyway, neither here nor there. Okay, good luck finding one. They exist. They exist here in Tampa, but they’re all concierge. But again, it’s fine. mean, not a bad business model for

these doctors, you know, you got to pay a doctor $100 a month. Then I’ll see you can’t see your so that’s where it’s gone. And there’s a reason behind that. Anyway, let’s go back. Let’s go back to the promises that Barack Obama made. Okay. If you like your health care, you can keep your health care like your doctor, can keep your doctor. Right? Sure. And then the whole pre existing condition stuff. Again,

The best one, the biggest lie out of them all. yeah, everybody’s healthcare is gonna go down by 20, health insurance is gonna go down by $2,500. It’s gonna be more affordable.

I’m at almost the point where I don’t even know why I even pay for I really don’t I don’t get it. It’s a racket. I don’t understand why I can’t just buy a real high deductible policy that covers in case bad stuff really bad stuff happens. I don’t know why they don’t offer that. Well, I do know why because I have to subsidize everyone else’s health insurance for all the people that are not paying.

Democrats, mean, they kind of had to, they’ve kicked ass on a lot of major policy things. Obamacare is the biggest policy initiative going all the way back to LBJ, let’s just be honest. And they have pushed their agenda, they’ve expanded their control over insurance companies. Again, we’re gonna subsidize your health insurance, here, we’re gonna help pay for this piece of paper that’s, you know, it’s not worthless for the most part.

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The lousy insurance products, are. But anyway, again, what’s happening right now is that people are, rather than looking at what the government did and the government’s involvement, they’re, go after the insurance companies. And what this will eventually do is allow for the Democrats to get what they want, a single payer system.

That’s what they want because then again, if you can, if you have a single payer system and you know, the only way to get insurance is through your friendly neighborhood politician, your government, you’re gonna be beholden to them. Now I’m take a quick side note to tell you what eventually happens when you have single payer. Let’s go to the UK. Let’s go to the, they’re a wonderful National Health Service. Michael Moore did a documentary on it.

Never forget that lame ass opening ceremonies to the London Olympics where they had kids dancing around on hospital beds.

This is actually happening right now in the UK. And this is something, it’s kind of like a version of Logan’s run if you actually think about it. Terminately ill pensioners could end their lives earlier to spare loved ones six figure tax bills under assisted dying legislation.

Basically, they are encouraging people, older people to die before they’re 75 years old. If they do that, then they can pass their inheritance onto their family tax free.

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Yeah, this is kind of sick. You know, this is going to expand and you know you’re get some sickos out there saying, yeah, grandma, grandma, I’m really sick. We gotta put them in the little suicide box. yeah, we gotta do it, gotta do it quickly. Make sure you do it before they’re, again, before they’re 75 years old and you don’t have to pay tax on inheritance.

I don’t have any problem with insurance companies cutting deals with people that saying, you know what? I don’t feel like going through all of these procedures, whatever it may be, I could do so and saying, hey, why don’t you save this and cut my family a check? Because I don’t wanna deal with this cancer treatment at a certain period of time. But putting people to death.

Yeah, coming soon to a theater near you. Well, it’s already playing in the UK.

Anyway, let’s take a look at the numbers. Finley put these together. Two trillion, two trillion more on healthcare today than in 2010. Two, again, get your arms around that number, two trillion dollars more. Now for two trillion dollars, you would think that, hey, everybody is healthy.

Right, right, right. Mortality rates for 25 to 64 year olds, and this is from major medical causes. Okay, I’m not talking about, know, we mess around with the mortality rates because of all of the drug overdoses. This is for major medical causes such as hypertensive diseases, diabetes, and neurological conditions.

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Up, up, up since 2010. How about that? $2 trillion more in healthcare. Get the same phenomenon. know, again, government involvement in education. Do we not? Again, insurance, does insurance change people’s behavior? In some cases, it does.

In some cases it does. They found out that Medicaid, okay, because of Medicaid, Medicaid, again, there’s no deductibles or copays if you’re on Medicaid. People who are on Medicaid, they go to the doctor all the time.

All the time, every single little thing, we gotta go rush to the emergency room for non-emergencies. Why not? I’m not gonna pay. The guy over there is gonna pay. What the hell do I care for crying out loud? And it’s a reason why. I remember talking about this when Obamacare came out, everybody’s like, it’s gonna pay. It’s gonna pay for your annual doctor, your annual visit.

Your annual visits gonna be great. It’s gonna be a part of Obamacare. I have car insurance. My car insurance doesn’t pay for the freaking oil changes on my car. Really, you can’t afford to go to the doctor once a year? To make sure, I mean, that’s a big expense. Another example.

Okay, up, you know, I got a home, I’ve got a homeowners policy on my house. Does my homeowners policy cover air filter changes and when the light freaking bulbs go out? No, no, no, this is stuff that you should be able to take care of by yourself. got a hundred again, staggering, a hundred, almost a third of the country, a hundred million Americans on

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Medicaid, Medicaid. And you know what the problem is? Why they’re going to hospitals, okay? Making it more expensive. Doctors don’t wanna take Medicaid patients. The reimbursements, they can’t. You can’t afford to be in business.

You you can, if you opened up, hi, I’m, you know, I’m Dr. Nick Riviera, the knee bone connected to the something, the something connected to the other thing. And you, you open up your own practice and you say, I’m only taking Medicaid patients. And you decided to go into work every single day, start taking patients at four o’clock in the morning. Yeah, you get tired around, yeah, you put, you you put in a 16 hour day every day and you’re only getting Medicaid reimbursements.

You’re going out of business.

How is that simple? You’re going out of business, you’re not gonna get paid enough. And again, they expanded eligibility with Obamacare, and again, they’re trying to basically hold down Medicaid costs because of this expanded eligibility. So guess what? Reimbursements to doctors go down. Then they say, hey, doctor, I’m not taking any of these patients.

So what do these patients do? Up they show up at the emergency room. Listen, again, you also talked about deductibles. The average deductible is $5,241 for a typical plan. That’s up from 2,425 in 2014. I remember my deductible, I had a high deductible health insurance.

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with the health savings account. This was prior to Obamacare. This was put into place when George W. Bush was president. Rick Santorum was behind this. I remember my deductible for my entire family was $5,000. So pathetic and sad. It’s gotten. So what does this mean? What does this mean? It means single payer healthcare is

the way and I’m telling people what are your feelings on that well as long as they have a private insurance opt-out Quite honest I’m being honest. Okay. I don’t care I’m not going on a government plan I’m not I’ll pay the money. I’ll get the you know, I actually think I’ll probably have much better insurance or there’ll be a better system in place

once they go in that direction. Okay, I’m at a point in time, I’m sorry, you sheep out there that believe in all this government bullshit. Okay, you wanna head in that direction? You know, farewell in a do, okay? I can’t deal with that. At this point, let it go single payer. Just allow for private insurance outside of that system. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.