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2. Do not overlook healthcare in the U.S. being run largely by for profit corporations.

Wed Jul 5, 2017, 09:50 AM

Jul 2017

Insurance companies act as middle men extracting large sums of $$$ that could be going to care. The ACA was proposed with built in profit limits.

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Exactly. We have a class based health care system. Yavin4 Jul 2017 #1

Centralization of healthcare is yet another factor ck4829 Jul 2017 #3

Seems that is an outline for class warfare. NCTraveler Jul 2017 #4

I know that the class war has been going on for a long time ck4829 Jul 2017 #5

According to Warren Buffett, the war is ongoing... Wounded Bear Jul 2017 #7

We do not have a health care system in the US... Wounded Bear Jul 2017 #6

DURec leftstreet Jul 2017 #8

No. We get great healthcare and we spend a lot on it sharedvalues Jul 2017 #9

Oh it's good, but suppressed by this control. ck4829 Jul 2017 #11

We expend a lot of resources to treat bucolic_frolic Jul 2017 #10

It is also used to fuel powerful Oligarchs' profit engines. n/t TygrBright Jul 2017 #13

What we are fighting DownriverDem Jul 2017 #15

Imo, an anti-Democratic trash piece in both senses of the word. Hortensis Jul 2017 #17