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Susananda's avatar

I guess corporate welfare is also congress welfare.

On a another note, Some community hospitals are cutting part c plans along with their for-profit private health insurance corporations.

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One_Nurse's avatar

Why does the richest country in the world have to have 'healthcare for the Poor’?

One People, Single Payer and no more Wall Street profiting off healthcare delivery!

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Laura T RN BSN's avatar

Thank you

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William Barnett's avatar

This is nicely done. I’ve made similar arguments in some of my Elder Vibes posts recently. The federal government, under all administrations, seldom goes after the truly important abuses by Big Insurance and Big Health.

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PP's avatar

I really appreciate you pointing these things out. It’s really frustrating that politicians evade the right effective change that could really help Americans

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Erica's avatar

This is 1000% owned by both sides of the aisle. When given the opportunity to stop electeds from being able to invest in the very companies they govern over, Pelosi said, 'NOPE."

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Ken Frisof's avatar

It's truly striking that the MedPAC numbers on MA overcharges, $84b a year are almost precisely the demand of the budget cutters for Medicaid cuts at $88b a year. Other organizations, especially PNHP, have come up with somewhat higher numbers, but when the politicians ignore their own think tank, it is quite deplorable.

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Joseph Gordon's avatar

Republican turncoats will pay a huge price in the 2022 midterms! If they cannot understand the poster child for corruption, United Healthcare, then what do they understand? Big super PAC money? What happened to delay, deny, and depose? I am disgusted by the pawns on the chess board (Congress) always being bought off at taxpayer and beneficiary expense.

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MKBroker's avatar

I imagine it's also a lot easier to cut programs than to fix them. This is also why the right spent a decade+ calling for the repeal of the ACA, but they could never coalesce around a replacement program.

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Carrie's avatar

This is why we can’t have nice things.

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