https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/01/02/the-healthcare-grift-in-one-chart/
THE HEALTHCARE GRIFT IN ONE CHART
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When the number of administrators goes up at a rate 18 times as much as the number of physicians, you no longer have healthcare, you have a massive grifting operation, designed to enrich health insurance corporations, hospital corporations, Big Pharma corporations, corporate executives, government bureaucrats “overseeing” the healthcare grift, and the politicians who were bribed to create and exacerbate the grift.
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I remember seeing my Mom’s bill for my appendectomy when I was I’m guessing about 10. It was for my three day stay in the (I hink) Knickerbocker Hospital. (I remember thinking that was a funny name for a hospital.) It was for more than one hundred dollars, but less than two hundred. My Mom luckily had (?Blue Cross Blue Shield?) thru her employer AT&T. But she had to pay the bill first and submit a “claim”. (I’d never heard that before.). Since it was a lot of money, her whole family sat down and looked at the bill, line by line, and item by item. I never knew if they found any discrepancies. But, in the end, everyone chipped in. I wasn’t privy to who kicked in what. And, when my Mom got the check for 80% of the claim, she paid everyone back. Simpler times; lower costs.
From that story, I distill that “Health Care costs” would be a lot less if everyone has to pay a percentage. Maybe, that percentage could be tied to the poverty line. BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), everybody pays something. One tenth of a percent up to say ten percent for Medicare / Medicaid Insurance.
I remember two facts: (1) when motorized wheelchairs were new, there was a TV commercial that promised a free one for every one of Medicare; and (2) some news report asserted that a sixth of all Medicare claims in southeast Florida were fraudulent. Wish I had captured those two “facts” as proof but I am positive of the memory. (I so sure because at the time my sainted Mother In Law was always griping about phone calls trying to get her to take one. )
So, instead of sending people to jail, the grift was allowed to continue and grow.
Argh!
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