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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