What do the Drug companies offer? Health? Nope; just money - for whoever will take it.


	What do the Drug companies offer? Health? Nope; just money - for whoever will take it.

nedhamson1

6-26-2009 10:43 AM

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6-26-2009 1:55 PM

masbury

The irony is that insurers add nothing to healthcare itself - there are middlemen who skim middle-class healthcare money and move the skimmings into the hands of executives and stockholders.

Our health insurance is the greatest income redistribution system America's ever known. Take from the middle, give to the rich.

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