How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do

They don't want a public option that would compete with private insurers and use its bargaining power to negotiate better rates with drug companies. They argue that would be unfair. Unfair? Unfair to give more people better health care at lower cost? To Pharma and Insurance, "unfair" is anything that undermines their profits. Full Story »

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Gary Holcomb
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by Gary Holcomb - Jun. 9, 2009

This is journalism because it describes three roadblocks that the conservatives are thinking about erecting so as to gut Universal Health Care.

Nobody said that it would be easy to bring Universal Health Care to the people of America. That said, Pharma & Insurance have a strangle hold on the health care industry & they aren’t going to give up their shack-down till they have all our money & hear our collective death rattle. Sign up now to help Obama push through Congress a Health Care Bill that really works for the people of America.

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