Everyone should seriously go see Sicko. Quite an eye-opener. Alot of the cases such as that described in post #33.
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They are not like drug companies that are actually producing a product that is valuable.
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If you think that the health insurance companies are corrupt (many are) but the drug companies are somehow benevolent, then wow, respectfully, either you have put on blinders or you work in the drug industry.
Health insurance companies offer a product, too, but just not as tangible.
You think drug companies care about people? About cures? No way. They are all about profit. All the big businesses are about profit, don't kid yourself. Drug companies have denied people access to info, they try to shut down harmless alternative treatments, their drugs are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths & serious side effects, which they downplay...oh don't get me started!
What about the obscenity of drugs costing $100 here and those same drugs costing $1 in other countries? (see Sicko)
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if you read Dr. Gary Null's excellent piece "Death by Medicine" you will find out that adverse reactions from prescription drugs are responsible for nearly three-quarters of a million deaths EVERY year in the United States alone. Of course you won't find any mention of this in the latest CDC report because they are giving you HIGHLY filtered information that is designed to reassure you -- not tell you the truth.
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Even though I sell health insurance, I recognize that there is a lot of corruption in the industry. But to think that the drug companies are any better...is just naive.