America’s medical debt is $88B, while the top five pharmaceutical companies brought in $80B in profit last year alone. The institutionalized greed of insurance and pharmaceutical companies is an economic plague on this country. We need single-payer universal healthcare, and nothing less. #MedicareForAll

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Big Pharma Raked in $82B Last Year While Lobbying Against Drug Price Proposals

The companies also upped their stock buyback and dividend payouts by nearly $7 billion last year.

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Are you still wearing a mask?
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You are right about this, but you are unqualified for potus. We’ve been down the unqualified potus road with Trump. Enough.
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We probably could diverted most of that new $886 billion package to the Pentagon towards universal single-payer. Wasteful. No wonder why we're still in the dark ages and we're sinking ourselves even lower.
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Scholars envision an approach with one layer of free and automatic health insurance for everyone, and another layer of private insurance for those seeking additional care amenities. news.mit.edu/2023/new-vision…

A new vision for US health care

“We’ve Got You Covered,” a book by MIT economist Amy Finkelstein, describes a way to revamp health care in the United States.

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#daybreakers
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What will you do about student loan debt?
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ˋI will walk you step-by-step through the basics of miraculous thinking, that you might attract more harmonious circumstances and all the miracles you need´ (M.Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation). Not working?
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I can see why nobody takes you people seriously. Why don't you take your own health seriously? Why are you so greedy? Why are you forcing other people to pay your debts? You'll get nowhere.
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Yes single payer
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