06/06/2025
We’re Not Losing Pharmacies and Hospitals — We’re Being Robbed.
In the past year alone, nearly 3,000 retail pharmacies have shut their doors and it’s not just independents. Chains are collapsing too. Meanwhile, hundreds of rural hospitals have already disappeared.
Why? Because billions are being siphoned away from actual healthcare and redirected to PBMs and health insurance companies — the middlemen with no scalpel, no stethoscope, and no soul.
Both parties in D.C. — red and blue — seem aligned on one thing: protecting the financial pipelines of BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.
These three asset managers are the top institutional shareholders in the PBM/insurance behemoths. Since the passage of the ACA, they’ve gotten even richer off our country’s “healthcare” dollars.
We now spend $5 trillion a year on what’s labeled “health spending.”
But most of that money doesn’t touch a patient.
It moves through Wall Street, not Main Street.
Over $1.25 trillion flows through just three PBMs — driving up costs, inflating premiums, and bleeding Americans dry.
It’s not healthcare.
It’s a financial transfer system from the working class to the elite few.
Look it up. Follow the money.
Then ask: Who’s really writing the script for U.S. healthcare?
Credit: Suzanne Parker Tagg
