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magellan

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3. Politics *is* in that picture

Reply to Brickbat (Original post)

Tue May 7, 2013, 01:33 PM

May 2013

The politics of for-profits spending larges sums of money to trump the will of the people. As usual.

The AMA wasn't the only organization bent on thwarting national health care back then. So was the American Hospitals Association...and the Chamber of Commerce.

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How a sentimental British painting thwarted universal healthcare in the United States [View all] Brickbat May 2013 OP

I don't see what's so "sentimental" about that picture; the child doesn't LeftinOH May 2013 #1

or pay in chickens... KittyWampus May 2013 #2

Politics *is* in that picture magellan May 2013 #3

So sad and ironic Addison May 2013 #4

And what a PARAGON of a health care system that effort led to in the U.S.A. . . . . HughBeaumont May 2013 #5