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By: selise

selise — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:39:26 +0000

back home with coffee… and feeling better until i looked at the news.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:36:58 +0000

Pharma is going to come out like a bandit with this legislation. Some classes of drugs will have their intellectual propriety extended to 13 years. (This protects them from generics) Additionally the pharma practice of paying generic cos. to not compete is not being addressed.

By: aliasofwestgate

aliasofwestgate — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:23:08 +0000

There’s no doubt in that happening in my mind. I see it first hand with the insane drug prices that are so common now.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:21:17 +0000

The estimates are that 20K people die every year as a result of lack of health care. That works out to aproximately 54.79 per day. Congress wants to go on vacation for 5 weeks that works out to 1,917.81 people that will die while they play.

By: oldnslow

oldnslow — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:17:20 +0000

Don’t know if it is overt, in the form of ads, or covert, in the form of direct payments, but the payola flows and it appears to me that the fix is in.

Far to many of the actual players can’t tell the difference between health insurance and health care. None of the players seem to be able to say that we already spend more than enough money to provide ALL the people in this country with health care we just spend it very poorly.

Much like trying to fix a financial system that is fundamentally flawed without addressing the root causes just treating the symptoms, lawmakers continue to act as if there is a solution to be found that involves insurance companies for our health care crisis.

As far as I’m concerned, 2.3 trillions a year spent on health care is double what it needs to be. I have seen nothing from congress yet that leads me to believe there is any political will to put insurance companies in their place. That place being the history books.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:02:05 +0000

These insurance companies are spending huge amounts of money that they have ripped off from people thinking they were buying health care.

By: selise

selise — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:59:50 +0000

i’d read it before, but i don’t think it really sank in until recently when ralphbon mentioned the interview the glenn and i listened to it again. the bill moyers interview also was good.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/jour.....ript4.html

anyway…. i’m off to the local coffee shop. must. get. some.

By: solai

solai — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:19 +0000

A thought occurred to me last night. I read that the ins. companies are pulling out all stops, spending huge amounts of money to stop reform. We know that the politicians are being bought (legalized bribery) but what I wondered last night is if the insurance companies are also funnelling money to the media. You think Rush is getting a few bucks to go on a rant? Glen Beck? Worse, more mainstream people that we view as being more objective. Washington Post?

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:54:19 +0000

IV drip sounds good

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:53:34 +0000

Good article