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workinclasszero

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5. Health insurance only exists to make obscene profits

Reply to HopeAgain (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 14, 2017, 01:11 PM

Jul 2017

for CEO's and investors.

Actually helping sick people is dead last on the list of things to do for the health insurance industry.

That's why Obamacare is so hated by republicans. It forced those scumbags to pay for sick people.

We need to take the profit motive out of healthcare with single payer IMO.

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From acne to pregnancy, here's every 'preexisting condition' that could put your insurance at risk [View all] workinclasszero Jul 2017 OP

Notice how "affluenza", "erectile dysfunction", "narcissism", and "sociopathy" are absent ck4829 Jul 2017 #1

Most republicans workinclasszero Jul 2017 #3

If we amend it to add old white guy conditions superpatriotman Jul 2017 #2

I'm 6', 170 and 56 years old HopeAgain Jul 2017 #4

Health insurance only exists to make obscene profits workinclasszero Jul 2017 #5

I'm for single payer, too cyclonefence Jul 2017 #6

This bill reminds me of Gary Larson's "equine medicine" joke jmowreader Jul 2017 #7