By: James Boyne
OpEdNews.com
There are two immense, goliath forces in a constant state of collision and collusion that are presently working to destroy the health care system in America. Corporate and personal greed are the motives. The American health care consumer is caught in the middle, being financial obliterated; quickly and silently being relieved of their life savings, retirement funds, and a good portion of their salaries and incomes. Tens of thousands are declaring bankruptcy due to enormous, crushing medical bills. Forty million Americans have no health insurance whatsoever.
The two destructive, deceitful, and deceptive forces at work are the pharmaceutical industry and the health insurance industry. There are a half dozen other groups that operate on the fringes of this nucleus, that nibble away for any remaining money to be scooped up from the sick, the injured, the disabled, and the dying. It is a multi trillion-dollar system of extortion, price gouging, bribes, special interests, blackmail, greed, and local and national politics, in its worst form.
The pharmaceutical industry exists for the sole purpose of preying upon Americans who are sick, unhealthy, in discomfort and injured. Their goal is to insure that only your symptoms are treated. Your symptoms may be pain, weakness, dizziness, headaches, itchiness, constipation, diarrhea, depression, anxiety, or any number of other maladies. It