The Healthcare Con

What would you do with $1000 more in your pocket every month?

Oct 07, 2025

💸 “We Already Pay for Universal Healthcare — We Just Let Them Keep the Change”

You ever notice how you pay hundreds—maybe even thousands—for health insurance every month, and then when you actually go see the doctor… you still gotta cough up more money?

Yeah. That’s not an accident.
That’s the design.

See, in America, access to healthcare isn’t a right. It’s capital.
And capital is power—the ability to command labor.

If you could walk away from your job and still go see the doctor, that would give you power.
And oligarchs don’t like that.

The Business of Denying You Care

We have a for-profit healthcare system built on a for-profit insurance system.
That means every dollar that doesn’t go to your care goes into someone’s pocket.
And not just anyone’s pocket—someone whose entire job is to find ways not to cover you.

Every time an insurance company posts record profits, that’s money that could’ve gone to treating patients. Instead, it’s funneled up to shareholders who never had to pick up a stethoscope or even a phone.

Imagine paying three times as much as people in countries with universal healthcare, getting worse outcomes, and then being told we “can’t afford it.”
Spoiler: we already are paying for it. We just don’t get it.

The Lie of “Affordability”

America spends more per capita on healthcare than any other nation on Earth.
And yet, millions of people still go into debt for basic medical care.

Countries with universal systems cover everyone—no copays, no deductibles, no “network restrictions”—for less than half of what we pay.

So where’s all that extra money going?
Right into your capitalist owners’ pockets.

That’s the quiet part they don’t say out loud:
You’re not paying for healthcare—you’re paying for their profits.

What Would You Do With the Change?

Let’s do some quick math.
If universal healthcare freed you from paying premiums, deductibles, and surprise bills, you could easily save $1,000 a month—or more.

That’s rent.
That’s debt paid off.
That’s freedom.

So here’s the real question:
If we’re already putting in enough money to pay for universal healthcare, why are we letting them keep the change?

What would you do with an extra $1,000 a month if healthcare wasn’t a bill?

The Point

Universal healthcare isn’t a fantasy.
It’s an audit.

It’s looking at where our money already goes and deciding we deserve more than a system built to deny us care.
It’s refusing to let billionaires tax our sickness for profit.

We don’t need to invent a solution.
We just need to stop letting them keep the change.

Question for readers:
If healthcare was free at the point of service—no bills, no premiums—what’s the first thing you’d do with that extra $1,000 a month?