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Warpy

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3. Most health care organizations, from hospitals to insurance companiess
Mon Jan 29, 2024, 04:09 AM
Jan 2024

to small free standing clinics were public utilities until about 50 years ago, when RICHARD NIXON changed the whole system around so his buddy Kaiser could get richer off the sick.

So if you want to know who fucked up our healthcare system, it's that asshole Nixon, who got healthcare out of the public sector and firmly into the hands of men who saw the sick as opportunities for profit.

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