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#81 Postby ameriwx2003 » Thu Nov 27, 2003 1:10 am

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... w/b3860037

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _numbers_3

From what I can see from this bill, the big winners are the drug industry, doctors and hospitals etc. .

Mike
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#82 Postby JCT777 » Thu Nov 27, 2003 9:47 am

rainstorm wrote:no one cares about the tax payer, only how they can buy more votes. and yes, competition would make prices much lower. works every time. you know why prices are so high? because doctors can charge insurance companies whatever they want, because their is no competion. plus, the govt can just steal more of our money anytime they want to pay for it. no big


Agreed completely, especially about the doctors taking advantage of the insurance companies.
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#83 Postby rainstorm » Thu Nov 27, 2003 9:54 am

JCT777 wrote:
rainstorm wrote:no one cares about the tax payer, only how they can buy more votes. and yes, competition would make prices much lower. works every time. you know why prices are so high? because doctors can charge insurance companies whatever they want, because their is no competion. plus, the govt can just steal more of our money anytime they want to pay for it. no big


Agreed completely, especially about the doctors taking advantage of the insurance companies.


yep, the medical commonity as a whole can charge anything they want, as their is no competition in the system. take the free market out of any part of the economy, and this is what you get
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#84 Postby rainstorm » Thu Nov 27, 2003 9:56 am

ameriwx2003 wrote:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/bw/20031126/bs_bw/b3860037

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... _numbers_3

From what I can see from this bill, the big winners are the drug industry, doctors and hospitals etc. .

Mike


absolutely right!! next will come price controls, which will make things much worse
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