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JG Wentworth: Ninety-two per cent of Americans surveyed are delaying or forgoing medical care due to soaring costs. {The Independent 3 August}
https://www.the-independent.com/us/money/us-medical-costs-doctors-health-insurance-b3026479.html
As the former United States descends by degrees into oblivion, the number of citizens destined to perish over the ensuing five to ten years — deaths that would otherwise have been entirely preventable — as a consequence of various collapse-related causes shall prove nothing short of catastrophic. Our healthcare system, together with virtually every other system of governance and administration, hath grown too unwieldy and unmanageable by far. The country itself — nay, empire — is increasingly ungovernable. The people largely detest one another, and altogether too many among us are not going to lift so much as a finger in the aid of a neighbour as this collapse continues to accelerate.
And is the health care industry really doing its part to help, or were all those conspiracy theorists rather correct all these years when they claimed insurance companies derive greater profit from the sick and the dying than the healthy and the living? Verily, it is not even an open question anymore — not under a regime so shamelessly mercenary, so thoroughly beholden to corporate cronyism, as the one which the American electorate, with a combination of folly, masochism and self-destructive impulse, restored to power in 2024. Trump and the GOP may give occasional lip service, and may even float spurious proposals ostensibly to remedy this healthcare emergency, yet scarcely even a pretence remains that this administration exists for any purpose other than to serve the interests of a constellation of entities — ranging from the corrupted health care and insurance industries, to deranged neo-fascists organisations such as the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, to the Saudis, to Putin’s Russia, to tyrannical technocrats of the order of Elon Musk, and so forth. All of them invested in impoverishing and killing Americans.
Sorry (not sorry) to keep reiterating this point: what y’all voted for, #Murica! After ten years of this unrelenting nightmare, I am more convinced than ever that most of ‘y’all’ are never going to learn your bloody lesson.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
