It is your own money that you pay to your pharmacist and health insurance company that constantly lobbies to prevent any meningful change in the fundamental inequities of our morally bankrupt health care system.
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It is your own money that you pay to your pharmacist and health insurance company that constantly lobbies to prevent any meningful change in the fundamental inequities of our morally bankrupt health care system.
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You might have read that the World Health Organization compared global health systems and assessed fairness in the distribution of the financial burden in financing each country’s health system. In other words, in which countries do people pay for health care according to their ability to pay? Would you be surprised to hear that when it comes to fairness the US ranked 55th, well below Libya, Cuba, Samoa, Uruguay, Guyana, India and, of course, Canada and most other western, industrialized nations? Aren’t you amused --- don’t you have to chuckle when you realize that it is your own money that you pay to your pharmacist and health insurance company that constantly lobbies to prevent any meaningful change in the fundamental inequities of our morally bankrupt health care system? Ha ha. Ho ho. Aren’t we a bunch of suckers?
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