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Old 03-25-2008, 03:58 PM
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Default Re: Affordable Health Care Plan

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Originally Posted by Sidney Lanier
It is not simply a matter of having a national health care plan versus not having one. For example, if we had a government thatrequired the pharmaceutical industry to negotiate on prices for meds rather than what it did when it created Part D--gave them free rein to charge whatever they wished in response to this industry's lobby and donations--that alone would enormously benefit Americans needing prescription drugs.
I remember how relatively quickly the new part to Medicare was approved by Republicans. It all happened so fast that who could not have known that our illustrious elected were rollin' around in bed with Big Pharma. Gee I bet the banking lobbyists were soooo jealous --- for awhile.

I made my own political history clear in a post above in this thread.

Now I am lost.
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