I went to the hospital yesterday for one of those tests where they stick some kind of big tube up your...OK, well, just use your imagination here, that's what I'm doing, I don't remember a thing about it myself. Those guys had some serious pharmaceuticals, I'm not kidding, also I'm not saying what they were because I don't know, they both had brand names (thanks, Big Pharma!), names I didn't recognize and don't remember either, all I remember is it turned out to be a very good day, or lack thereof. And I'm good for another 10,000 miles.
Meanwhile, for those of you without a commienazisocialist government health plan:
Big Pharma and big insurance hate the public insurance option even more than they hate big Medicare discounts. And although the President has sounded as if he would welcome it, political operatives in the White House have quietly reassured the industries that it won't be included in the final bill. At most, the bill would allow the formation of non-profit "cooperatives" that wouldn't have the scale or authority to squeeze the profits of private industry, or a "trigger" that would allow states to form public insurance options eventually if certain goals for cost savings and coverage weren't met.
link: Robert Reich: The Public Option Lives On
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