Fetch the Anaesthetist (7)

What would happen to you were you to, suddenly, have a horrible accident? A car accident, for example? Likely what would happen is you would be trucked off to the nearest hospital and be treated. Your car would be scrapped and you'd receive a pitiful lump sum of insurance money for it. Then you're left up to your neck in hospital bills that you couldn't dream of affording. Sure, you have health insurance, but unfortunately for you you still get to pay a ridiculous percent, more than you could even make. This situation is not far fetched. Every day things such as this happen in America. Why is it that we must plunge into poverty because of an accident, even if it wasn't our own fault? (Don't forget, if you sue don't expect any money for roughly ten years, assuming you win at all of course.)

The following song by British metal band Enter Shikari, "Anaesthetist", was written about the United Kingdom's National Health Service becoming privatized, however without that knowledge one could swear it was written about the United States' health care system. (Warning: explicit language)

Lyrics such as "You sold us short/You will not profit off our health" or "We drink to your health/We capitalize on your condition" seem to really hit home hard to us Americans. How is it any different? In this country, our medical professionals charge absurd amounts of money for their services and will turn away those who cannot pay. Physicians have become businessmen, quite literally capitalizing on our condition. It's a common sentiment to believe that doctors pressure patients to take unnecessary precautions to make money off of them, and I can speak from experience. My sister is a veterinarian, ans she often complains that she has to essentially sell her services to her patients' owners in order to make the company money, as her salary essentially depends on it.
Is the prime motto from the Hippocratic oath not "do no harm"? Is turning away those in need not doing harm? Those doctors who studies for years and years because they were passionate to help had to become capitalists in order to survive in the field, and you pay the price.

And what of insurance companies? Are they in the wrong as well? Or course they are. Insurance companies exist for profit. The only reason we need health insurance is because of the completely absurd cost of medical care in the first place. Other countries have publicly funded health care paid for with taxes from the people. There is no middleman trying to make a quick buck, like there are too many of here. The health care system in America is now  health care industry fueled by greed and a brutal lack of morals. It is the responsibility of a government to protect the welfare of its people, so why is ours allowing private institutions to "suck the blood of the afflicted"?

"Illness is not an indulgence that you should pay for, nor is it a crime for which you should be punished."