The Palliative Machine: Medical Monopoly under the Corporation-State

The American medical system is corrupt, ineffective and unnecessarily costly

The Palliative Machine: Medical Monopoly Under the Corporation-State
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The American medical system is corrupt, ineffective and unnecessarily costly. These outcomes are due to state violence on behalf of the politically connected elite (namely private insurers, physicians, pharmaceutical and medical device companies). Artificial scarcity, price-gouging, misallocation of research funding and the suppression of alternative (non-patentable) therapies can be ameliorated by revoking state-conferred elite privilege and re-establishing cooperative, mutualized healthcare financing. ”

A must read: The Palliative Machine: Medical Monopoly Under the Corporation-State, by Sebastin A. B., GreenMedInfo, May 25th 2013

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