About the efforts to destroy Planned Parenthood. . .two OP's I just read
made an interesting connection in my mind (before caffeine, so who knows how valid??) The first (ck4829) was about the fact that American health care is the most expensive in the world, with some of the worst outcomes. The thread contains much insightful commentary about profits rather than health care, and putting good care out of reach for many. The second was from Kath2 about how PlP was her source for health care for years (as we know, abortions are only about 3% of the care that PP provides).
So it suddenly made me wonder if the attacks on PP, the attempts to destroy it, are, at the base, fanned and fostered by the for-profit system, using the religious whackjobs as a distraction. After all, we cannot have the slaves have access to affordable, quality care.
Is it just me? Is is obvious and I just missed it? Or do I need more caffeine?
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The for-profit system you mentioned wants the masses of people making mad dashes to the first low-pay, few-benefits job they can find.
All this and add demonizing public education: It's going to act as a depressing factor on wages and employee power.
No Planned Parenthood and no abortion or birth control - What do you think is more likely out of the following two? Not what WILL happen, but more likely?
Cures for cancer, hover cars, and go to the Moon and be back by supper time
OR
A whole lot of people who are hungry and need something, anything, just to keep a roof over their heads
I'd never think someone on this board would make that mistake deliberately! 
It's also about people not having sex so they can devote more of their life to the shared delusion--er, to church.
It's to get you to spend all your free time praying and having your butt in a pew. The more time you spend on that, the more likely they are to get not only more power and control over you, but also, more importantly, more money out of you.
Never, ever under-estimate that religion's unbridled lust for money and power. They've only been obsessed with acquiring unlimited amounts of both since Peter harangued Ananias and Sapphira to death (if not outright murdered them) for all of their money, rather than only part of it. It only got worse when they hooked up with Constantine for the power part of the equation.
One only needs to look at the filthy amounts of gold and silver dripping all over the Vatican, or several of their cathedrals around the world to prove that the case. Like this RC facility in Puebla, Mexico, where untold thousands died to produce the silver and gold that went into building such obscene monstrosities:
A bunch of Native Americans were literally worked to death to gild that obscenity--and worked to death with that very church's blessing.
Not that there's no truth to some of this, we all know there is, but that it's unbalanced and lacking a critical amount of further truth.
It would be very strange if healthcare corporations were trying to drive PP out of business to get its tiny share of its market. Profit margins in medical care are already quite low compared to other investment opportunities, and they're not exactly fighting to take largely un/under-insured patients away from non-profit do-gooders.
Also, any discussion about our healthcare system with a bottom-line takeaway that it has "some of the worst outcomes" in the world is either intentionally or whackadoodly misleading.
Grain of Truth: Yes, we do. Almost every nation can be said to have "some of the worst outcomes" in the world.
Other Truth: We have a good share of the best outcomes in the world. .
More Truth: That's the bottom line only in those hellholes that only have the worst outcomes in the world.
For some perspective, at least 40% of the people in Haiti have NO access to healthcare. 
Healthcare-wise, though, the other "60%" with at least some degree of healthcare make Haiti golden compared to Sierra Leone, ranked dead last on the WHO health systems performance index.
It can be hard to believe we all live on the same planet.
In 2000 the U.S. was ranked 37 out of 191 countries by WHO's criteria of performance. (Old, but still a very good overview. The last most comprehensive report with not a lot of controversy over criteria and methods.). We're 18 on a 2020 LPI ranking, which at least sounds better; China and India with most of the world's population are 54 and 101.
Just our unacceptably low numbers totally fail to put across that Americans nevertheless live in a very privileged world. Or that anyone who can put a coherent sentence together on social media should be able to arrange much better than whatever that number is today when needed -- like taking advantage of good, modern medical care being always available by consulting earlier rather than later.
24/7/365/lifelong availability is a BIG, BIG, BIG thing. Today 40% of member nations still have fewer than 10 doctors per 10,000 people.
Here's the WHO report, still very worth reading and goes good with the luxury of coffee in a safe, advanced nation. By a recent measure of advanced nations we're about #11, but never to forget that's at least among a highly privileged minority that excludes most of humanity.
https://www.who.int/news/item/07-02-2000-world-health-organization-assesses-the-world's-health-systems
