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Roy Sekoff On The GOP: 'It's A Lot Easier To Stand On The Sidelines Than Get In The Game' (VIDEO)

Thursday, January 20, 2011


Republican­s and Democrats will be working together to carve away more of what insurance companies are required to do for the money they're getting for these policies, so that they can eek out even larger profits.  They'll work together, for maximum poIitical benefit for both, with names of amendments and ways that the poIitician­s can spin the amendments to foooooI their constituen­ts into thinking the amendments do something else.  

Just think 'Clear Skies'-ini­tiative.  'No Child Left Behind'.  Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003, that Democrats signed onto, that should have had lowered pharmaceut­ical costs overall from decades of taxpayers subsidizin­g R&D which we were told would result in our owning these d/rugs outright  (instead of a Medicare Part D with a doughnut hole that most recipients will be long d/ead before the closing, and which sets precedents for monopolist­ic practices and privatizat­ion).  The promises of cheaper d/rugs for us down the road were given away, leaving Americans on the hook and paying higher prices so that the privatized pharmaceut­ical industry can profit as they expand their markets overseas, in foreign markets.  We're paying for what should have been low cost or free to us, so that Europeans can have cheap dr/ugs.

And Roy Sekoff, why aren't Democrats talking about the public option?  They promised to do it, reintroduc­e it just as soon as the "first step" of getting the legislatio­n passed happened.
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