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MaggieD

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1. Okay this is my area of expertise....

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Sun Sep 7, 2014, 02:18 AM

Sep 2014

And the issue is obscene. This chart doesn't even begin to describe the fraud these for profit health insurance companies have perpetrated on the American public. The bush prescription drug bill increased the cost of Medicare (your tax dollars and mine) by 38% - but what they never told you was that 350 billion was set aside for these for profit insurance companies.

It's late and I could go on for days about this. But yes, truly WTF.

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WTF ...144 [View all] pbmus Sep 2014 OP

Okay this is my area of expertise.... MaggieD Sep 2014 #1

Thanks for your comment and welcome to DU pbmus Sep 2014 #2

Thanks - I'm not really new MaggieD Sep 2014 #3

Sometimes these blogs can be extremely self destructive ... pbmus Sep 2014 #5

Wow! MaggieD! Unknown Beatle Sep 2014 #6

Yep 35 billion per year for 10 years MaggieD Sep 2014 #7

Wow! C Moon Sep 2014 #4

Yep, and that doesn't even count the fraud, the most common of which is ... Scuba Sep 2014 #8

And yet many at DU think that the ACA is the best law ever passed Doctor_J Sep 2014 #9

Can you please provide a link to the relevant story? Orsino Sep 2014 #10

This might help . pbmus Sep 2014 #11