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Thread #106523 Message #2201251
Posted By: kendall
24-Nov-07 - 08:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Health Insurance RANT!!!!!
Subject: RE: BS: Health Insurance RANT!!!!!
My brother had a minor heart attack. His wife called 911 and they sent a Medcu ambulance AND a firetruck! He yelled at them, "What the fuck is that for? I'm not on the Goddamn roof"!
We all know what the problem is. Congress is controlled by drug company lobbyists. THEY write the laws, and we elect politicians that take money from them. One of the most blatant cases happened just recently, a law maker all but gutted a bill to let the government buy drugs from Canada, and when the bill failed he left congress to a job that paid a million dollars a year with one of the drug companies! He had the nerve to justify it on national tv!
I was surprised to see Pat Buchanan on MSNBC when he made the statement that the car companies should be relieved of the health care burden and that the federal government should pick it up. The problem at GM is, each one of their employees costs the company $74.00 per hour. Toyota is a third of that.
There are still too many Americans who see a communist under every bed and they are scared to death of Socialized medicine. Well, what the hell is Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security? If the corporate greed could be controlled we wouldn't need NHC! Health insurance hasn't always been unaffordable.