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Mar 13·edited Mar 13Liked by Thom Hartmann

I call what you're talking about the Finance/Insurance/Medical Industrial Complex. Now the system is being bought up by Wall Street investors. Since Obamacare, the system is so entangled and profit driven that I don't see how evolve into a single-payer universal system. Capitalism is going to come crashing down and we're going to sink back into the dark ages.

I don't know how it is anywhere else in the U.S., but I'm living in some kind of medical tyranny. The providers and the insurance create and own your medical records. They say what they want to and can make you seem mentally ill. I went for a BP check yesterday. The two nurses in the room asked if they could practice a new tool with me, and that UW is always sending them new questionnaires. I'm an RN and wanted to help. After a few questions including math calculations and memory assessments that I answered correctly, they asked me to name as many animals as I could in one minute.

I realized I was being evaluated for dementia and objected that they had deceived me. I told them to practice on each other. Is there an age where dementia screening is part of medical care? I believe they are trying to discredit me because I complained about unsafe care in their emergency.

I started reading the after visit notes and have found the notes not to reflect what actually happened in such a way to portray me in a bad light. You don't dare disagree with the providers or the insurance. I won't go into what I have been dealing with the past few months, only to say that healthcare has changed drastically toward making profits and away from prevention and treatment.

Why are so many adults that were on ritalin as children now substance abusers?

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