How about your parents and what you think you will get in an inheritance turning into smoke because of the scams?
Think I'm kidding, do you? I'm not.
"Nursing homes" sucked in the 1970s so spare me the "this new" thing. I know it isn't new because I SAW IT as a young child and teen when my Grandfather went into one and languished there for quite some time. But what is new is that Private Equity and hedge funds have bought up as much of this as they could and turned it into a "**** you, **** your children, **** your legacy we're stealing it all" element exactly as has been the case in every other area of the medical system over the last 30 years. Had that been the case when my Grandfather went in it would have ruined my Grandmother who survived him by several more years.
As I have pointed out "everyone pays the same price, there are no exceptions, and if you try to scheme them including through government programs you're going to ****ing prison for 10 years *******" would fix all of this -- including that crap -- in a literal day.
It requires no new laws to do that and in fact Congress can't stop it either because the law (15 USC Chapter 1) already exists and has for more than a hundred years. It was passed by Congress because the very same dickheaded crap was being run by Standard Oil and others around the early 1900s and Congress, back then, apparently wasn't able to be bribed by them sufficiently to block the legislation.
But just like with 8 USC 1324 and the INA reform act mandating almost $1,000/day fines for any person who was in the country beyond their legitimate period of stay so once ordered removed or your visa expired you better get out -- or else -- nobody has enforced said law.
What can be altered by enforcing said long-standing laws is the human desire to rob those who are of diminished capacity for whatever reason, whether the diminished capacity is due to age-related mental disability or simply conning people into believing you can get something for nothing while you screw someone else (e.g. the claim Apple "can't" build the iPhone here in the US without it costing $3,500, which if true is proof that they're abusing humans, the environment or both on a world-wide billions of dollars a year basis and thus every one of their executives should be executed and anyone who owns their stock should have it go to zero because exploiting the environment in this way and effective slavery are two things we've decided a long time ago as citizens of the US are unacceptable and must not happen.)
Trump came into office and said he was going to fix this with regard to trade. Ok, the market people don't believe him and then they have a 2-year-old style temper tantrum as they can't have another candy bar in the bond market when he does some of it. What does he do? Give the market a candy bar rather than do the right thing, which is to say "**** off dickheads; you had fair warning and if you think you can push me around with this sort of **** I'll **** you up the ass by throwing all of you in prison under long-standing anti-monopoly and racketeering laws -- extortion is a predicate offense to RICO and indictments can issue faster than E/Os so choose wisely."
"Oh but there will be a recession!" many scream.
Uh huh.
We should have rebalanced things back in 2000, then again in 2008 and if you think that was stupid what we did in 2020 was even more stupid, yes, including "Warp Speed" Mr. "Stable Genius" which, I remind everyone, Trump has not apologized for, retracted or told the FDA to take that **** off the market and out of the schedule. Oh and by the way that scam has and is dissuading people from using shots where the risk:reward is, on the evidence, a good bargain. That's what happens when you lie repeatedly; nobody believes a damn thing you say, justly so, and thus the collateral damage multiples exponentially.
Reality is that without destroying all the fraud, extortion and monopolist practices in the medical field, all of which together stack up to costs being FIVE TIMES what they should be there is no fix for either the federal budget or the jobs that were offshored because with our existing legal structure, including Obamacare and EMTALA, you either solve the cost problem or employees are stupid-expensive here compared with elsewhere, even among first-world nations such as Canada and Switzerland.
Never mind that this cost-driving bogus bull**** also encourages and indeed makes necessary (for firms to hit their "profit targets") to do things that are either neutral or even hurt you because the more "things" they do the more they get paid. In no other line of business (other than law, which is a tougher one) is this true: Nobody, for example, pays for hours of work on a software project where nothing is ever delivered or where the product doesn't work and yet this is not only common its expected in the medical field.
There was no place that this has been more-evident in the last 20 years than during Covid in which physicians and hospitals got paid by CMS for "treatments" that even under the largest studies done (e.g. Remdesivir) proved were worthless and even worse they had a decent chance of killing you indirectly (in the case of Remdesivir by destroying your kidney function, which prior trials years earlier proved happened about 20% of the time.) At the same time there was no incentive to use anything off said schedule or inexpensive because you didn't get paid for it -- and you did get paid for doing ineffective and even dangerous things.
What do you call making money by killing people? An honest individual calls it murder-for-hire.
What do you call a system designed to asset-strip someone who is mentally and physically compromised? An honest individual calls it elder abuse and, by the way, its supposed to be punished as a felony with everyone involved in being subject to clawback, prison and forfeiture.
Are you a financial rapist Mr. President, never mind a SLAVER? I quite-well remember you stating you were going to fix all of this during your first Presidential campaign. You were oddly silent this time around on that after it disappeared literally on election night in 2016, which I also documented at the time, but if you don't fix it right here and now all your other arm-waving bull**** on trade and whatever is going to do exactly NOTHING and the collapse in the economic outcome will occur anyway no matter what else you do.
