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Exposing the Corporate Option in Health Care Debate
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Sep 17, 2009 02:37am |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Author | John Jonik |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 09:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Despite endless talk and news coverage, some integral issues are being left out of the health care debate.
-- Private insurers have motive and corporate duty to charge as much as possible, and to deliver the lowest level of service possible. That's business. It is an unacceptable adversarial situation when it comes to public needs.
-- Private insurers must grow, thus guaranteeing cost hikes, and excuses for service cuts, forever.
-- For-Profit insurers are saturated with conflicts-of-interest through their multi-billion dollar investments in some of the worst health-damaging industries on the planet. Some are---cigarette manufacturing, tobacco pesticides, dioxin-producing chlorine industries, military weaponry, and mountain-top removal mining. This may account for why we hear so much from insurers and corporate media about illnesses caused by people's behavior (smoking, drinking, over-eating, etc.), and natural things like germs, viruses, "faulty" genes, bugs, insects, the sun, etc., and so little about dioxins, pesticides, petroleum products, genetically-engineered “foods”, and other corporate substances. |
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