Found this quote, and it seems appropriate to my experience with the Obamma administration:

"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment...is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence."

From We the Living

Particularly, "His own rational judgement."

To explain the gutting of the American healthcare system, let me first explain that I worked in the industry in the 'eighties, researched and studied the situation, and due to my math background, as other wise persons also knew, realized what was happening.

And that was this: Providers---hospitals, clinics, and doctors---contract with the government, and private insurers, to discount prices and rates. The Medicare contractual was upwards of fifty percent off, and Medicaid up to 70% discount. Contracts with private insurers were not even close to those amounts. The upshot is that in order to stay in business, providers had to raise their prices to extra-governmental payors. So, in essence, private healthcare insurers were subsidizing Medicare and Medicaid. (Private pay was never contractualized.) Pretty easy to understand, right?

But as an unwilling 'advisor' to the government, at that time, I explained all this. Yet in his September 2009 speech to Congress, Obamma perverted the concept, actually twisted the rationale and reasoning, and said that private insurers were subsidizing Medicare and Medicaid. Which was evil itself, as it was anti-math and anti-reason.

But even more evil, and this is when I realized there was rottenness in this country, ALL OF CONGRESS stood up and applauded! Applauded the perversion of reason itself!!

hOW DOES AN ANEURYSM EQUATE TO ARTHRITIS? IT'S ON YOUR KIDNEY AORTA. MY UROLOGIST SAID IT IS THE PAIN...NOT ARTHRITIS. WHAT DOES HE KNOW..HE'S ONLY CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE OLDEST HOSPITAL IN HOUSTON TEXAS? BUT BOY AM I ON HIS SIDE. WE ARE TALKING SCREAMING PAIN. MORE LATER. APPARENTLY THE DOCTORS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS...NO MUSCLE RELAXERS, NO PAIN MEDS...EXCEPT OVER THE COUNTER ARTHRITIS MED OR BAYER ASPIRIN. NB