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Originally Posted by Robbie
If not for the Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Hospital industries lobbying the Federal Govt. with hundreds of millions of dollars...health care costs in the U.S. would be like they were when I was a young adult and you would be able to pay out of pocket for all but the most expensive catastrophic health issues.
And that would only require cheap catastrophic health insurance.
This whole thing is created by Pharma, Insurance, and Hospital Corporations and made legal by the politicians for sale in Washington D.C.
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Yet we had the opportunity to do away with that when Obamacare was first envisioned but Republicans fought tooth and nail against it and Democrats caved to their concessions and we get a watered down shitty version.
Perhaps if political parties stopped making healthcare a "political football" then perhaps our system wouldn't be run by big Pharma, Big Insurance & big Hospital groups..
This is how cheap big Pharma buys off congressmen
Top Recipients, 2013-2014 (Big Pharma)
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) Senate $357,173
Booker, Cory (D-NJ) Senate $308,150
Markey, Ed (D-MA) Senate $307,450
Upton, Fred (R-MI) House $302,700
Hagan, Kay R (D-NC) Senate $284,449
https://www.opensecrets.org/industri...us.php?ind=H04
Top Recipients, 2013-2014 (Insurance Lobbies)
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) Senate $588,075
Boehner, John (R-OH) House $529,385
Ryan, Paul (R-WI) House $466,678
Hensarling, Jeb (R-TX) House $355,014
Warner, Mark (D-VA) Senate $349,350
https://www.opensecrets.org/industri...us.php?ind=F09
No wonder Paul Ryan hates Obamacare so much.. He's been in Congress barely 5 years and he's getting almost as much as Boehner.. He gets paid to hate it..