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2016 Postmortem

PatrickforO

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2. Well, yeah. It's like this new cure for cancer that is effective 93% of the time that is

Reply to randys1 (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:27 PM

Feb 2016

being touted as a major step forward. Which it totally is. I mean, that's GREAT.

BUT, my wife and I were talking earlier today and I quipped that we probably would not have access through our shitty HMO to such a cure. Because they are about cutting costs and retaining earnings, not about providing the best treatment.

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That and propaganda that many have swallowed about waiting in lines, etc. randys1 Feb 2016 #1

Well, yeah. It's like this new cure for cancer that is effective 93% of the time that is PatrickforO Feb 2016 #2