AMA tells Obama they prefer 'no change' to healthcare system

June 11, 1:11 PMExtreme Weight Loss ExaminerMark Rubi

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In a surprise to absolutely no one, the Bartleby-like vampires at the American Medical Association (AMA) would “prefer not to” have any major changes to the current bloated system of medical care in the United States. The New York Times reports that the AMA opposes the creation of a publicly funded health insurance plan. President Obama will address the AMA during their convention in Chicago on Monday.

Of course, the AMA is just a part of what is now one of the largest industries in the United States and the world. The “Health Care Industry” now accounts for 17 percent of American’s Gross Domestic Product. This market share of American dollars is expected to grow to 20 percent of the GDP within the next eight years.

The AMA joined with other health care organizations in sending a letter to President Obama last week offering their concern for health care costs and their willingness to help. They offered to help bring things under control after decades of health care costs rising at more than double the rate of the inflation. They offered to help after creating a health care system in which Americans pay more than $1 trillion more per year than any other country on the planet.

So what did they offer to do? Did they offer to bring American health care costs in line with other industrialized nations? No. Did they offer to make sure proper health care was available and affordable to all American citizens as a basic human right? No. Did they offer to make access to healthcare more important than money? No.

What they offered was to help “in the next decade” achieving the “goal of decreasing by 1.5 percentage points the annual health care spending growth rate – saving $2 trillion or more.” So, even though health care costs are out of control, and have been for a long time, they are now willing to lessen their annual rate of increased greed and avarice by 1.5 percent. To make sure there is no confusion, they are not offering to lower healthcare costs by 1.5 percent annually. They are just offering to lower growth by 1.5 percent. And with the creative accounting that has gotten America into its current economic mess, the health care industry is going to help us “save $2 trillion or more.”

To add insult to injury, the AMA and the others representing the “Health Care Industry” had the gall to preface their offer with the following line, “As restructuring takes hold and the population’s health improves over the coming decade…” Who do they think they are kidding? American health has done nothing but decline for decades.

50 years ago the United States was probably the healthiest country in the world. The rate of obesity was less than two percent of the American population. The rate for overweight in total was less than five percent. Diabetes was a very rare condition. Autism was so rare that most people did not know it existed. Americans in general were healthy and strong. And they were healthy and strong despite the fact that most of them smoked.

Today, more than 30 percent of all adults are medically obese. More than 60 percent of all American adults are overweight by medical definition. Diabetes, autism, and chronic health issues related to weight are at epidemic proportions. What was at one time 'health care' has become an 'industry' of blood sucking that is draining the average American of their life savings.

It was recently reported that more than 60 percent of all bankruptcies in the United States are now due to medical costs. Strangely enough, 50 years ago America was the envy of the world as diseases such as polio were faced and defeated by true American heroes such as Dr. Jonas Salk. Nowadays, curing or preventing disease is not nearly as profitable as perpetual treatment. And perpetual treatment is very, very profitable. The AMA is banking on it.