Health Care

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Part of the reason health care is so damn expensive.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44893005/ns/business-forbes_com/
Gotta love drug companies and doctors. "Don't want to pay our ridiculously high prices and fees? Fine. You can just die."

HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.

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The Obamacare plan WAS a kickback to drug companies. Pharma was HUGE! The big winners were Pharma and unions (whose health care trust funds will be bailed out by Obamacare). But Pharma was likely the biggest.

Check out what the article itself says: "ObamaCare could end up helping three of the top-10 improve their lot in years to come." And this is MSNBC saying it.

Blame pharmaceuticlas companies for making a lot of money? No. I'd prefer to blame the government for picking them as the big winners.

Note: what do doctors stand to gain here? Doctors are the ones who routinely get hosed by the insurance companies AND the government. And patients. And employees.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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I posted the link as an example of one reason health care costs are so high. I then added doctor's fees as another.
They are by no means the only reasons.
the only medical doctors I hold any sympathy for are general practitioners. I have absolutely no sympathy for a surgeon who whines about his $250,000 sports car being in the shop so he has to drive his Mercedes to the country club picnic. Those miserable excuses for human beings are worse than vultures. At least vultures wait until you are dead before feasting on you.

HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.

[billvon 3,132]

>I have absolutely no sympathy for a surgeon who whines about his $250,000 sports
>car being in the shop so he has to drive his Mercedes to the country club picnic.

I have no sympathy for them, nor do I have any hatred. The best of the best do get paid very well. That's good for us.

If you were paralyzed from the waist down, and there was one (expensive) surgeon with a 70% success rate with restorative surgery, and the rest were 30-40%, would you be OK with someone forcing you to go with the 40% odds?