The Big Rip-Off

Combining unregulated hospital billing charges with profiteering, along with an intentional misrepresentation is quickly fueling the runaway healthcare inflation rate. Taking the rate of medical errors and the dangers to patients of spending time in the hospital into consideration, we have crucial evidence of an industry that is in crisis. This crisis of the uninsured is caused by hospitals overcharging them, and then holding their greedy hands out to the government for even more handouts. Offshore accounts with hundreds of millions of dollars, millionaire CEOs, and billions in profits are further indicators of the industry wide corruption. Are all of the hospitals involved in this con game? No, but those that are not, are not blowing the whistle on those that are. We have only just begun to scratch the surface of this national scam.

The not-for-profit hospital system is based upon the concept of allowing these financial institutions to develop regional monopolies in health care, permitting them to develop their own insurance products, their own nursing homes, their own home health agencies, all feeding upon the local population. By choosing the right board members, by being the largest employer in the area, and by being the largest advertiser in newspapers and television in the region, the “hospital system” can stifle competition, quiet opposing opinions, and control all of health care for that region. Just look around at both large and small cities throughout the nation.

With more growth, they can control doctors, other insurance carriers, and become the most potent political operators and lobbyists in the states where they exist. They can prevent passage of certificate-of-need legislation, preventing the growth of more convenient medical care. Competition with other hospital systems becomes the exception. Right now this is just a dream, but if we all continue to pull together, maybe someday, it will be a reality.

For now, please go to www.hospitalvictims.org , and have a really good look around. Click on every single link, and compare the prices of the hospitals in your area with John Hopkins. Join The Fairness Foundation, and let them see what they can do to help you with your medical issues.

Stay persistent. Keep fighting. Just because you are uninsured or underinsured does not mean you cannot receive the medical attention that you deserve.

Fighting for the uninsured and underinsured pregnant mom and their unborn babies,

Advocate Aaron