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7 Things You Didn't Know About Senate Health Bill
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Submitted 8 months ago
roundbracketcs says,
I am such a defeatist. I'd just say health care reform is not possible, because other powers are too strong: greed and obstinacy. It's lucky for us all that there are some ppl who simply don't give up; that keep thinking it's possible to change.
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Article excerpt from npr.org — "Pay attention: The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" - better known as the Senate health care overhaul bill - is chock full of interesting but little publicized provisions affecting consumers. Sure, the bill is mainly a blueprint for overhauling the insurance system. But look closely and you'll see a variety of items that would...

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Posted 8 months ago
there's so many provisions and addons now it's not even about affordable health care
 
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Posted 8 months ago
all i want is affordable health insurance whether it be government or what i have no insurance coverage at all 0 so i can not afford to go to doc or hospital
 
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Posted 8 months ago
It's not going to be possible until you remove the "industry" suffix from "health care". Industries are machines designed to move product and make profits -- you and your ailments are nothing but blank checks for the cats at the top. We turn everything into a money-making venture in this country, its the American way.

Until healthcare goes back to being about health and care rather than making some corporate assholes more money, any other kind of reform is largely pointless to begin with.

It's not defeatist, its a sad fact of how this country works.
 
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Posted 8 months ago
just as this reform isn't about health care for the people, it's about agendas at the top.
 
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What else would you expect from THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT PROFTS OFF OF HEALTH CARE.
 
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