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America’s #1 Employer Is Now... Sickness?
Is it a healthcare system or is it a disease economy?

Without even realizing it, the New York Times just exposed the corruption of the U.S. healthcare economy.
They published a state-by-state breakdown showing the top employers in each region today compared to the 1990s. Back then, the map was filled with manufacturing plants, retail chains, hospitality jobs, and public sector workers. These jobs built things, served communities, and created value.
Fast forward to today?
Hospitals. Insurance companies. Nursing homes. Outpatient clinics. Nearly every state’s largest employer is in the sickness business.
📉 The Health of the Nation Has Collapsed
This didn’t just happen because people got older. It happened because disease has exploded, so the industry built around it exploded with it.
Diabetes has doubled from 7% in 1999 to 14% in 2021
Obesity has tripled since 1970, now over 40%
NAFLD (fatty liver disease) used to be rare, but now affects 1 in 3 adults
Chronic disease impacts 6 in 10 adults, and 4 in 10 have two or more
Myocarditis, autoimmune disorders, and infertility are all rising fast
We didn’t just get unlucky. We got manipulated.
🧪 Feed Poison, Sell Pills, Repeat
Here’s how the system works:
Poison the food supply — load the shelves with ultra-processed junk, seed oils, sugar bombs, and fake ingredients that destroy metabolic health.
Create chronic illness — insulin resistance, gut dysfunction, hormonal collapse, mood disorders, liver damage. All preventable. All profitable.
Sell the "treatment" — not the cure. Just enough to manage the symptoms while keeping you dependent on the system.
Sell drugs for the side effects — the first drug creates three more problems. Great, they’ve got something for those, too.
Grow the healthcare workforce — hire more nurses, PAs, coders, and administrators to “manage care,” which now requires a small army.
It’s not a broken system. It’s a perfect business model.
💵 From Manufacturing to Manufacturing Sickness
We used to make things for profit. Now we make people sick for profit.
This isn’t accidental. It’s not a sad byproduct of modern life. It’s a profitable feedback loop where human suffering is the fuel.
And the more we participate in it — with our food choices, screen habits, and blind trust in the system — the stronger the loop gets.
🧠 It's Not Healthcare — It's Disease Management
America spends $4.5 trillion on “healthcare” every year. Yet we’re:
Sicker
More medicated
Dying younger
Living more years in disability than ever before
How is that possible?
Because the system isn’t designed to restore health. It’s designed to manage illness indefinitely.
📖 God Told Us This Would Happen
“The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.” — 1 Timothy 6:10
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” — Isaiah 5:20
We’ve allowed greed to become our physician. And now we’re surprised that people are getting worse, not better?
They call it "healthcare", but it’s not care. It’s control.
🙏 What Can We Do?
We take our health back.
We stop outsourcing our decisions to food corporations and pharmaceutical reps.
We return to real food, restorative sleep, natural light, and functional movement.
We educate our families.
We say no to the trap of comfort and convenience.
And we stop letting our temples be desecrated for profit.
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you…? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” — 1 Corinthians 6:19–20
🛑 Get Out While You Still Can
America doesn’t have a healthcare system.
It has a disease economy.
And until we stop funding it with our choices, it won’t change.
We are not helpless.
We are not victims.
We are image-bearers of God, and we are responsible for how we steward the body He gave us.
Don’t let them profit off your pain.
Need help escaping the system? Schedule a complimentary discovery call with me today.
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