Lien On It, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)

Can you afford your vital insulin
Her comes chest pains once again
Now you need a hip replaced
Draining savings breakneck pace

American health care a disgrace
If you cant pay they steal your place
No family to leave your house to
Bill collectors coming after you

Getting ill happens all
Bankruptcy is downfall
Greedy bastards take it all

C.E.O.s drain your blood
Leave you penniless
And call it good

Profits off of desperation
Unsustainable situation
Vultures in boardrooms masturbation

Choosing light bill over medication
You know you need that operation
Everything stolen by a corporation

“Die quickly” if you cant pay
Where is the compassion today?
Nobody should have to live this way.
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Fuck corporate health care. America does not have the best health care, we have the most expensive. And I don’t want to hear shit about our allies having waiting lists.

In many states in America these greedy assholes can put a lien on your property for unpaid medical bills. That means you have nothing to leave your family or friends if you die broke in medical debt. This is basically legalized robbery and it is the oligarchs deliberately creating more poverty so they have a more easily controlled desperate workforce.

I think this could change in very short order if 20 or 30 million Americans suddenly stopped paying their medical bills. It would clog up the system, and the courts. I would never suggest anyone do anything that they are uncomfortable doing or don’t want to do. But I don’t see things changing until people are willing to be uncomfortable and make the government uncomfortable.

NOBODY should go broke for something that happens to all of us eventually.