One Year Ago Today, America’s Profit-Driven Health Care System Killed my Only Son (NSFW)

[Warpy]

76. DU is a site for grownups, tolerant of well deserved profanity

so allow me:

"Simply put, if you are in favor of a health care system that is purely based on greed and profit (as America’s is and has been), then you are in favor of people dying so millionaires can get even richer. And yes, Fuck You for that."

I am so sorry the fuckers killed your son. I don't know how anyone can recover from that.

I went without health insurance from 1987 on to this year, when Medicare kicked in. I hopped around on a broken ankle for three days waiting for an urgent care to open up because I couldn't afford the $1000 for walking into an ER. I blew off a C7 fracture partly because it didn't hurt that much more than normal (although I had mild neuro deficits from it) but mostly because I couldn't afford to get it fixed.

The system of health care in this country designed by Nixon, then Reagan, and then MBA weasels who wanted to wring the last dime of profit out of the sick is criminal. There is just no other word that fits it.

Were it up to me, the upper management of all health care outfits would be in prison. It's not up to me, so they'll all retire in pleasure palaces in the Caribbean and die in feather beds.

And I hate every one of them. And I blame them the most for that.