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"Does it really matter if an insurance company or the government provides the coverage
Last edited Thu Aug 16, 2012, 10:49 PM - Edit history (12)
if the care is the same?"The difference with paying the private health industry is that the difference fattens the pockets of its execs, lobbyists, and stockholders while they invent excuses for not covering people (or even paying their employees) so they can turn an even bigger profit.
I don't mind paying for health care, which is why your post does not offend me. However, I do mind paying to further enrich those who do NOT "trickle down" the money via "job creation." I'd rather spend it on preventing EVERYONE from getting sicker than they need to -- and dying sooner than they ought to.
rocktivity
