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Omaha Steve

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14. Consumer Reports is a unionized company!!!

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Oct 30, 2014, 04:01 PM

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It's time to get mad about the outrageous cost of health care - Consumer Reports [View all] Playinghardball Oct 2014 OP

K&R abelenkpe Oct 2014 #1

i cannot even go for simple stuff anymore, they have jacked up the price so seabeyond Oct 2014 #2

And yet, US life expectancy ranks 32nd amongst all nations. closeupready Oct 2014 #3

Not to mention the profit for the insurance companies. Do any of the other countries mentioned have jwirr Oct 2014 #4

Paying $37 for a $0.25 aspirin can't be fun for the insurance companies. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2014 #19

we have been compaining about insurance companies for years J_J_ Oct 2014 #38

Some of them do, but it is not for profit. subterranean Oct 2014 #20

Whatever the market will bear. The triumph of capitalism. Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2014 #5

I can't afford the $140.00 medication that really works well so I get Autumn Oct 2014 #6

Maybe, maybe not. nt kelliekat44 Oct 2014 #11

step one: all medical practitioners must post fees/charges on the internet for public viewing. msongs Oct 2014 #7

It's not the medical practitioners.... physioex Oct 2014 #26

Part of the problem is that there isn't one or two easily correctable sources for the increase. Xithras Oct 2014 #8

It is getting seriously disgusting what the billionaires are doing to this country. Initech Oct 2014 #9

Premiums skyrocketing by 20 percent woo me with science Oct 2014 #10

Try some facts, and not the conservative scare machine ones frazzled Oct 2014 #31

But what's the answer? Seeking Serenity Oct 2014 #12

Look across the borders and the answers are all over the place. The people simply don't let those jtuck004 Oct 2014 #13

Thank you. woo me with science Oct 2014 #15

as the article points out, $$ decisions are out of the consumer's hands, BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2014 #16

There are 400+ million consumers. There are, what, a million (generously) really profiting jtuck004 Oct 2014 #21

we need to organize. that requires someone to lead the 400 million. BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2014 #22

"Leadership", I'm told, and what you seem to lean on, is how we got here. Maybe we need something jtuck004 Oct 2014 #24

so do it, man. BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2014 #27

Read The Healing of America by TR Reid spooky3 Oct 2014 #17

2 answers: dixiegrrrrl Oct 2014 #18

saving this post for future reference. should be an OP BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2014 #23

you are pathetically misinformed Doctor_J Oct 2014 #30

Medicare for all. It lets you bargain for a reasonable rate on that MRI. grahamhgreen Oct 2014 #34

Consumer Reports is a unionized company!!! Omaha Steve Oct 2014 #14

It's all about paperwork, etc. loyalsister Oct 2014 #25

and now we all have to participate in the farce KG Oct 2014 #28

But the ACA is working!!! Doctor_J Oct 2014 #29

Yes, it is frazzled Oct 2014 #32

Healthcare premiums in my company will go down in 2015 bhikkhu Oct 2014 #33

And at mine they went up by 35% Doctor_J Oct 2014 #36

until single payer is a reality hopemountain Oct 2014 #35

Single Player Plus colsohlibgal Oct 2014 #37

It's time now, is it? malthaussen Oct 2014 #39

The insurance companies have no real incentive to cut costs. hunter Oct 2014 #40

K&R&bookmark JEB Oct 2014 #41

See what your doctor is getting from pharmaceutical companies: yellowwoodII Oct 2014 #42

Past time... daleanime Oct 2014 #43

The time period covered by this report ... staggerleem Oct 2014 #44