Health Care “Reform” by Insiders: Media Fails to Report Conflicts of Interest
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UncleBuck
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why are you trying to compare free citizens who pay taxes to slaves being held as property against their will?
did someone in your klan chapter tell you that was a good idea?
ttystikk
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This thread must have hit a nerve with the right wingers because it sure got derailed in a hurry!
Anyone have any comments about health insurance executives giving speeches to doctors about why they are costing the system too much?
I think health insurance companies need to be put out of business and the savings used to provide better health care to everyone.
Anyone have any comments about health insurance executives giving speeches to doctors about why they are costing the system too much?
I think health insurance companies need to be put out of business and the savings used to provide better health care to everyone.
SneekyNinja
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Most countries with nationalised healthcare still have insurance companies.
You're an extremist, it doesn't need to be either/or.
From the article:
One big problem may be that we don’t understand how much discussion of health care reform is driven by those who benefit from the status quo.
aka privitization..where there's a dollar to be made..
This makes the case for Single Payer/Medicare for all..do it!
SWIMsorry about your sister
SneekyNinja
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Observers of journalism in the mass media have recognized that an echo chamber effect is occurring in media discourse. One purveyor of information will make a claim, which many like-minded people then repeat, overhear, and repeat again (often in an exaggerated or otherwise distorted form) until most people assume that some extreme variation of the story is true.
The echo chamber effect that occurs online is due to a harmonious group of people amalgamating and developing tunnel vision. Participants in online communities may find their own opinions constantly echoed back to them, which reinforces their individual belief systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)
The echo chamber effect that occurs online is due to a harmonious group of people amalgamating and developing tunnel vision. Participants in online communities may find their own opinions constantly echoed back to them, which reinforces their individual belief systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)
Unclebaldrick
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Agreed. It would be much preferable to the current system where the government is literally prohibited from investigating their industry for anti-trust violations.
ttystikk
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Jesusfuck. Why aren't blatantly abusive rules like that illegal?
Unclebaldrick
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Illegal? It is the law. From what I recall, it was a gift to some senator in the late 1940s in an unrelated political bargain. Even then, it was meant as a temporary measure - even codified as such into the law. But Congress (R), in their infinite wisdom, bowed to lobbyists and made it permanent in exchange for some rather large campaign contributions. So there it is. It is literally the only industry immune from anti-trust. Not only anti-trust enforcement, but the even investigation of anti-trust.
Go figure.
ttystikk
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That's a crime if ever there was one.