Wednesday
Nov072012
The Truth About Obamacare
This is outstanding. And the source for this negative review happens to be FDL, a well-known, left-leaning, progressive website. So if you're an Obama supporter, sorry for the bad news but even your own side knows Obamacare is a fraud.
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This is a MUST SEE:
Obamacare Explained In One Sentence
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MUST SEE - Check Out The MIND-BOGGLING Obamacare Flow Chart...
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Reader Comments (4)
I'm a a Canadian with universal care and Obamacare horrifies me. I guess since Russia called the bluff on Iran, the MIC is done looting other nations at taxpayer expense, now it's just pick the carcass clean.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/a-huge-overnight-increase-in-a-drugs-price-raises-protests.html?_r=0
Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection.
The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“What is it that they are doing differently that has led to this dramatic increase?” said Dr. Judith Aberg, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She said the price increase could force hospitals to use “alternative therapies that may not have the same efficacy.”
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Turing’s price increase is not an isolated example. While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.
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Most Fire Chiefs and EMS directors had the Pill Book years ago showing the true cost. This has gotten fucking ridiculous...