Bernie Sanders Cracks The CODED THREAT To Entitlements In Obama’s State Of The Union

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117. Agree with part of this & I will add: Repukes fight reform because it can be directed at

things such as preferred vendor contracts (and that includes staffing vendors), administrative costs in general, including some fancy expense accounts supported at least indirectly by CMS, and salaries for persons who do little or nothing for, and in some cases even impede, direct care, which persons are quite likely to be Republican contributors, so of course Republicans are against reform.

Reform could also include something the nurses in my family hope to see: Inclusion of valid, accountable, alternative forms of therapy, an area that could provide some serious pharma costs relief, not to mention its auxiliary costs such as the necessity of periodically hospitalizing people who are taking many different kinds of medications, simply to deal with the side effects of all of those medications (as my and many other families can probably tell you all about).