Reply #28: 4th reason: disease farming. No health care until 65,then universal single payer government Medicare

[McCamy Taylor]

Think of what this means. Americans are allowed to get to the ripe old age of 65 with as little preventive are as possible, There is a whole phony scientific industry devoted to doing bogus research designed to prove that sweets, snacks, colas, alcohol, tobacco are good for you. Exercise is discouraged by the recreation that is offered--TV and computers. We get fat and unhealthy and live in pollution and get no prevention because our insurance does not pay for it even if we have insurance.

And then, the minute we turn 65 we all have single payer government health insurance called Medicare So, single payer universal isn't even unAmerican. What is unAmerican is trying to insure people when they are younger, when diseases could be prevented rather that treated.

By having this unlimited single payer universal government health insurance at 65 for people who have been encouraged to wreck their bodies---or grow healthy crops of diseases---the Medical Industrial Complex assures itself that it will be able to sell plenty of artificial joints and lots of operating room time and hospital bed space and anesthesia and medications and heart valve replacements and coronary artery splints and more medications and home oxygen and nursing home beds and the list goes on and on....

The current system is set up to make us unhealthy so the MIC can make a profit off of our misery.