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Cleita

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1. I have always maintained that as long as the insurance companies and other

Reply to trumad (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2015, 03:50 PM

May 2015

health care for-profits are making money, they will never take their stranglehold off of our health care. We need to kill those parasite industries first.

I found that out when I was able to get Medicare for my husband when he was diagnosed with end stage renal disease. No insurance company back then would insure for it including the Medicare Advantage plans because there was no profit in it, so he was able to qualify for this little niche of socialized medicine.

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So I could not help but think after reading NanceGreggs Op on Canadian Healthcare.... [View all] trumad May 2015 OP

I have always maintained that as long as the insurance companies and other Cleita May 2015 #1

I went bankrupt due to medical expenses here in the US. Lars39 May 2015 #2

Same experience but it's not over... But I try not to say anything. It won't help. freshwest May 2015 #3

Hell yes.... daleanime May 2015 #6

I'm still paying off a hospital bill from 2011 project_bluebook May 2015 #10

As a spouse she would be liable. Downwinder May 2015 #4

That's why single payer is the ONLY humane option BrotherIvan May 2015 #5

Amen..... daleanime May 2015 #7

pharmaceutical companies absolutely SUCK IcyPeas May 2015 #8

too bad the law's set up to lock what we have in place MisterP May 2015 #9

Rich People Get Morons To Do Their Bidding For Them Bigredhunk May 2015 #11

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