More than dozen cities in Spain hold protests against part-privatization of health care

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Didnt your cousin read the policies? This story seems sketchy.
When purchasing a policy you make choices and price obviously was a factor in your cousins decision. The more you pay the less risk you take. Seems your cousin went cheap.

The problem with our health system is two-fold: Big pharma/Big Medical have control of our govt. Our govt is a puppet. Reimbursements set by CMS(Medicare) have been manipulated by big pharma. Both are guilty though since big pharma would not get anywhere without some entity to manipulate the game. This was not the case before Medicare. Nixons drive to reduce costs via introduction of HMOs in the 70s was another huge problem. This is unfortunately a case of unintended consequences. The intentions were good but the results were/are disastrous. Both big pharma and government are culpable. Growing one only concentrates more power in the other. A sick cycle.