I worked in city government 33 years before retiring. Among the programs I started was collection kiosks (like a larger version of a mailbox) at our local Senior Center to collect unused/expired prescription drugs. You would not believe the quantity of drugs we collected from those seniors every single week. The kiosks constantly being filled up. It taught me two things. First, senior citizens in our age are drug addicts. Second, WAY too many drugs are prescribed. All those meds cost medicare (taxpayers) millions of dollars over time. This was one city of 80,000 people. Imagine this at a national level. All the waste. All the drugged out seniors.
IMO health and car insurance are one GIANT scam that Americans accepted. You paid for something that only happened 1% (exaggerated). You could pay 100k over the span of your life and never get into an accident.
I worked in city government 33 years before retiring. Among the programs I started was collection kiosks (like a larger version of a mailbox) at our local Senior Center to collect unused/expired prescription drugs. You would not believe the quantity of drugs we collected from those seniors every single week. The kiosks constantly being filled up. It taught me two things. First, senior citizens in our age are drug addicts. Second, WAY too many drugs are prescribed. All those meds cost medicare (taxpayers) millions of dollars over time. This was one city of 80,000 people. Imagine this at a national level. All the waste. All the drugged out seniors.
No profit in a healthy person
It is a very corrupt system and I don’t think it’s fixable.
IMO health and car insurance are one GIANT scam that Americans accepted. You paid for something that only happened 1% (exaggerated). You could pay 100k over the span of your life and never get into an accident.
Nurse & occasional patient here. He's telling the truth. The health insurance system cares about money not actually helping people.