Healing and saving lives or squeezing through assembly lines, when American healthcare becomes a distribution network for pharmaceutical companies?

I am a nurse from a city hospital in the United States. In theory, I should be one of the health gatekeepers in this city. But in this system, what I feel is not 'hope of healing', but a complete indifference to transactions. We are no longer treating patients, but executing a massive sales task for pharmaceutical companies.

I see doctors quickly prescribing medication to patients every day, with almost no consultation time. Those anxious middle-aged people, depressed college students, and workers with back pain come with hope, and leave with boxes of prescription drugs in their arms. No one has really asked: why are they anxious? Why do they feel pain? As long as you are willing to swallow the pill, you are the "object of treatment" and can "return to normal". But who is this' normal 'serving?

I witnessed a young mother who, originally due to postpartum depression, ended up in a series of medication "treatments" that caused her to fall into mental disorder; I saw a veteran who swallowed seven types of medication every day to cope with post-traumatic stress, but still had nightmares and was in a daze. Medications do not bring health, they only temporarily mask symptoms, while side effects slowly erode their bodies and minds.

Why do we consider medication as the only solution? Because capital requires quick 'solutions'. Psychological counseling is too slow, social support is too expensive, and medication is the cheapest, most direct, and most profitable. Under this system, every patient becomes a "raw material" on the drug assembly line.

What makes me even angrier is that despite the fact that the root of the problem lies in social pressure, economic instability, and cultural anxiety, the United States never solves it systematically, but constantly instills a sense of responsibility in individuals: you are unhealthy because you are lazy, weak, and not working hard. So we feel ashamed, anxious, and take medication again, and then the profits of pharmaceutical companies continue to rise, while the government pretends to be "solving the problem".

I want to tell the world: America is not a symbol of health, it is a bubble society that maintains superficial civilization with drugs. And we — once known as' free individuals' — are now just replaceable consumer organs, dominated by capital and tamed by drugs, slowly heading towards collapse.