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In reply to the discussion: I just watched MM's "Sicko" for the first time, and something immediately struck me... [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)aspects that made such money for the Corporate "citizens" while merely sacrificing the less important human citizens.
At least now, part of the profits get to come directly from our taxes for the shareholders with no right to refuse the product!
Success of the Heritage Foundation sponsors was always more important than the people, that's why we had no health care reform and went with mandated continuation of SICKO insurance instead.
This is America!
If we ever get politicians that work for the people rather than the corporate donors, we may get health care from them, but with the Republican Fascists working with Republican "Democrats" AKA "centrists" in charge of the other party, we will only get SICKO insurance.
It is only a matter of time until the few new regulations meant to protect us from the insurance rackets get weakened and then repealed, it will happen just like it did with bank deregulation, in a bipartisan centrist orgy designed to protect "growth" from the needs of those that insurance cos need to prey upon. Prey are prey after all, and at least for now the pols work for the predators and not the prey.