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Healthcare became like public education in the USA, a political ideology that subverts the body politic to support jobs for people who do not have real skills but whose great granddad had 33 degrees in secrecy. In other words it is entirely a support system for the least of the privileged, while also paying huge sums to the owners and "providers" of those systems (textbooks, syringes, insurance, etc).

If U.S. Americans did not have an irrational verve for education as the supposed panacea of democracy, there would be no public education system. If they did not believe the intense pseudoscience of the medical industry, they would not care about health insurance.

But as they are under the sway of such false conscience, the system of gradual decline called inflation pays for unqualified people to keep a livelihood at the expense of a misled and deluded public. That expense is not only the costs of running these systems but their detriments to the health and education they pretend to treat.

The increased spending on healthcare is no different than spending more on education or the "homeless problem", it is simply a politics of shifting more funds into systems that are legally obligated to pay high sums for a lot of nothing. It only appears different than education because we pretend its not completely wrapped up in public spending and politics like education is. Obama made sure that healthcare would hold such a place as education in the system with the reforms to healthcare, and the people applauded this.

High incomes paying more for healthcare is simply those who can afford it using the system that ultimately pays for the health and education of the rich at the expense of the health and education of the poor. After all we know that nobody who is rich is paying any of their healthcare bills, they have excellent health insurance for that.




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