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Medicine is a Business, not a Ministry
In the richest empire on Earth, where rockets kiss the stars and algorithms whisper our desires, one institution bleeds the people dry: the American healthcare system. It was meant to heal. It became a marketplace. And now, millions walk its sterile corridors not as patients—but as prey. Americans run from one doctor to another with hope, just to find out there is not; Medicine is a business that lost its way.
A System on Life Support
Once upon a time, medicine was sacred. Today, 66% of Americans say they no longer trust it. Not the white coats, the boardrooms, the promises. 65% believe the system serves profit, not people. And only 1 in 5 still believe healthcare leaders care at all. Medicine, it seems, has morphed into a business model rather than a healing ministry.
This isn’t disillusionment. It’s betrayal watching your child’s fever rise while the pharmacy demands a co-pay. It’s choosing between insulin and rent, the quiet violence of bureaucracy.
You are taken to the hospital against your will, but they send you a huge bill. The price of being merely alive. One more example that Medicine is a Business, not a Ministry.
The Cost of Survival
America spends more on healthcare than any other nation. Yet its citizens die younger, suffer more, and pay dearly for the privilege. A Harris Poll found **over half of Americans grade the system a “C” or worse**. Even those with insurance are drowning, 44% have delayed care, and 40% of them did so because they couldn’t afford it. Insurance was supposed to be a lifeboat. Instead, it’s a leaky raft in a storm of paperwork and denial codes, further proving that medicine is evolving into a business.
The alternative to a 5k fix for one teeth, ibuprofen, Tylenol or Advil, until the next year when you get the new insurance if you do. If not, you will be taking pain killers for a while.
The Healers Within the Business
And yet—amid the chaos—there are still saints. Doctors and nurses remain beloved, trusted by 78% and 87% of Americans. They are the ones who hold our hands in the ER, whisper hope in the ICU, and rage quietly against the system that shackles them, reminding us that medicine should be more than just a business. But even angels burn out. Even healers break when forced to choose between care and quotas.
The Anatomy of Exploitation
Why does this system fail so many? Because it was never built to serve the sick—it was built to serve shareholders. Behind every hospital is a billing department, and behind every prescription, a profit margin. Behind every denial, a spreadsheet. Transparency is rare. Compassion is rationed. And the patient? A number. A nuisance. A cost center, as medicine turns further into a business entity.
Medicine is a Machine, not a Ministry
Rebellion, Ritual, and Renewal
But there is another way. For those like The Natural Memo—which blend ethics with narrative, commerce with ceremony—the path forward is not just reform. It is natural revolution.
- Let healing be a ritual, not a transaction.
- Let stories replace spreadsheets.
- Let rebellion wear a white coat.
- Let medicine be preventive and natural, based on thousands of years of tradition.
We must craft campaigns that expose the rot and ignite the soul. We must speak in symbols, in rhythm, in fire. Because medicine should not be a business. It should be a blessing.
