Branson's "Hillbilly Health" Hypocrites!

Aging Country Music Tourist's may still be Branson's "mainstay economic engine", but coming up fast is a new challenger......POOR PEOPLE PATIENTS!  While, every two years our heritage obsessed community rushes to vote for freedom and against big government, we live in a precarious local economy engaged in hunting government checks like our forefathers hunted rabbits.  Clearly our most prolific hunters are Health Care Professionals including Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Home Health Agencies, Assisted Living Facilities, Hospices, Doctors, Dentists, Pharmacists, Drug Manufacturers, Therapists, DME Vendors and an assortment of Mental Health and Social Service "Providers".  These upwardly mobil "top 25% citizens" set the consumption standard to which the other 75% only aspire or dream.  The engine that keeps this Health Care Juggernatt running is, of course,..... PATIENTS, and where do they all come from?  Well you don't have to be Google to know that an extreme disproportion of the  patients are coming from the bottom socio-economic half of our citizenry.  Those with huge stress, little education, and meager resource are continuingly being promoted to fulfill their almost obligatory "patient role".  They are tantalized with slick ads,  frightened by inflamatory news, endlessly refered from providers to provider, and inspired to revere disability....all so that Medicaid and Medicare will keep those EFT Bank Deposits coming.  So, anticipating that the Tri-Lakes Area is not likely to run out of poor people to manipulate, and expecting that the Liberals will keep funding "entitlment programs", Branson can still prosper, even with the Country Music Decline.  What the Hell, a Little Hypocracy Never Killed Anyone!