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Given the trend and lack of care about suffering in this country, in a decade all we'll be able to afford is health care "vending machines".

Instead of talking to people, you'll stick your arm in one machine socket and spit into another and it will take your blood and analyze your fluids for the flu, a dozen diseases and genetic defects. Then it will print out a prescription with a credit for the store it's located in.

You'll be force-fed advertising while the process happens and then they will sell the results to various other corporations which will then market you cures. They'll be able to do this because they will flash an EULA on the screen waving all your rights, which you have to agree to so you can get help.

Then the medical vending machine corporations will have a massive lobby for their rights in Congress which cannot be defeated because they will get the loons on their side to defend their massive profits as "American Values".