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How Billionaires Turned Medicine Into A Wealth Extraction Machine

You're always sick because it makes them money.

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đŸșThe Wise Wolf
Jan 11, 2026
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John D. Rockefeller, oil tycoon and the creator of the ‘modern’ medical industry said, ‘A patient cured is a customer lost’ almost 100-years ago and we have been sick ever since.

A hospital stay in 1970 cost around three hundred dollars. Today, the average is over fifteen thousand. That is a fifty-fold increase in five decades while wages have barely doubled. Your grandfather could pay for a week in the hospital with a month’s salary. You would have to sell your car and empty your savings to cover the same stay. Nobody in the mainstream media is asking why this happened because the same billionaires who own the media own the hospitals and the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical corporations that are bleeding you dry.

My grandmother told me stories about growing up in the 1940s and 1950s when doctors would come to your house to treat you. She said her mother would often pay their family doctor in eggs and homemade canned goods because that was what they had and the doctor accepted


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