Posted on 07/09/2017 8:52:31 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
The real reason for Illinois' collapsing financial situation is being withheld from its citizens. According to the latest Natural News health blog, "When a single state in America must now pay over half a billion dollars per month just to barely keep up with what it owes the medical system, you know something has gone terribly wrong and the system is unsustainable."
"Illinois is being bankrupted by Big Pharma," continues Natural News publisher Mike Adams who is an advocate of Natural Medicine and healing practices not acceptable to the Federal Drug Administration, “because Americans are being held captive by the FDA (which) must be gutted from top to bottom." Illinois State Comptroller Susana Mendoza just received a court decision that demands a staggering "$586 million per month to catch up on all the unpaid Medicaid bills [the State] owes doctors, hospitals, cancer clinics and drug companies." How ironic that on the day we celebrated our country's freedom from taxation without representation, the nation has become enslaved to an out of control Big Med, Big Pharma, Big Government cartel that in reality is nothing more than income redistribution. In short, our hard earned money is being poured into pockets of CEO's and shareholders of a vast drug and technology based medical combine. "America spends almost one out of every four dollars of its GDP on "sick care services" writer Adams says. He is coming down hard on our current system that he sees as broken and being dominated by "Big Pharma's toxic drugs that simply don't work to prevent sickness and disease." Critics also suggest that many of the harsh chemicals taken by legal prescription merely mask symptoms yet fail to root out and cure the underlying diseases or conditions.
The elephant in Illinois’ state house, of course, is Chicago where...
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Medicare/Medicaid was the beginning of socialized medicine in the US. Like all commie systems, only a matter of time before it falls apart financially.
Guess that time is now.
The politician’s credo, especially applicable and obvious on the democrat side, “Go on, take the money and run”
People never learn, but Socialism/Statism IS crony-capitalism
When government creates rules on all aspects of life, and pays big money to implement them, it is true always and everywhere that those inside and closest to the rule-making will game it for their own corrupt advantage.
Maybe its big-pharma, maybe its banks, maybe its defense contractors - or its all of them. US government has enough tits to suckle every crony-piglet.
Just wait until Chicago’s Unions find out that their Pensions can never be fully funded. There will be anarchy and killings in the streets of the Windy City.
I seriesly doubt that Illinois voters will ever truly recognize why it is in such deep doodoo... well,, at least the live ones,, the dead on the voter rolls are pretty much irrelavant, even tho they are growing in numbers dramatically of late. Like voters , they vote like automatons and remain quiet as their state goes down the drain.
This is nothing more than an anti-pharmaceutical screed. The fiscal problems facing Illinois are much more complex than this.
“This is nothing more than an anti-pharmaceutical screed. The fiscal problems facing Illinois are much more complex than this.”
truly bizarre article; apparently insufficient use of “natural healing” and “herbs” in Illinois is a principal cause of its pending bankruptcy, and if only Medicare and Medicaid would switch from real medicine to herbs all would be well in the Land of Lincoln.
Uh, there are already anarchy and killings up the gills!
You are right. Problem is purely the politicians. Any other blame is strictly a distraction from the real criminals.
I foresee attacks on politicians and bureaucrat leaders.
This is nothing more than an anti-pharmaceutical screed. The fiscal problems facing Illinois are much more complex than this.
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This is a steaming pile of bovine excrement. The reason Illinois is dying is because of public sector union pensions.
The courts ruled that the pensions have to be paid. Even if the city of Chicago and the State of Illinois is forced to borrow every penny to make the payments.
Those extravagant pensions will NEVER be completely paid.
There will be chaos, rioting and worse thoughout Illinois.
Who will the court rule has to lend Chicago and Illinois the money to pay those pensions?
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