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erronis

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3. Hello - It's the insurance companies.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 08:39 PM

Dec 2019

We all know this.
They know it.
The politicians know it.
The insurance companies buy the politicians.

Kickbacks to hospitals and doctors.
Drug markups with kickbacks.

All of this should be illegal but it takes rules made by politicians and enforced by the government.
Not in this current USofA.

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In the U.S., an angioplasty costs $32,000. Elsewhere? Maybe $6,400. [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2019 OP

Profit comes before patients. guillaumeb Dec 2019 #1

You get what you pay for, right? moondust Dec 2019 #2

Hello - It's the insurance companies. erronis Dec 2019 #3