LINK Elisabeth Rosenthal Explains How U.S. Health Care Became Big Business : Shots - Health News : NPR
"One expert in the book joked to me ... that if we relied on the current medical market to deal with polio, we would never have a polio vaccine," Rosenthal says. "Instead we would have iron lungs in seven colors with iPhone apps."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Yeah, it's a real pisser they can joke about it. It is disgusting how we let big corporate take over our government.
silverotter11
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Apr 13, 2019
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they're a greedy bunch of bastards. i had to go into a hospital in mesa once for a cut finger. took 4 sutures: the bill $1400. itemized was a dab of polysporin $80.
to profit from misery & misfortune should be punishable by death, imo. probably is in china..
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