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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: shorthair on June 20, 2007, 10:47:47 pm ---Health care and pharmaceutical are the newest robber barons.

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I think you meant Health Insurance ... or, if you didn't, you should have.

boykster:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on June 21, 2007, 03:57:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: shorthair on June 20, 2007, 10:47:47 pm ---Health care and pharmaceutical are the newest robber barons.

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I think you meant Health Insurance ... or, if you didn't, you should have.

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True that....doctors and hospital administrators aren't at fault here, it's all about insurace coverage, liability and malpractice insurance costs, etc.  Most doctors I know (and I know a lot, my father is a physician) pay way more $$$ in insurance than they actually make.

And as for the pharma industry, don't get me started.  I have worked in biotech/pharma for 10 years, and public perception vs reality is a huge gap.  There are MANY reasons that name-brand (non-generic) pharmaceuticals are so expensive, and it's not because we're a bunch of greedy bastids.  Do some research re: the cost of developing a new drug, and how long it's protected under patent before you start making assertions.

Chris G:
Not to mention those big severance checks they have to write to folks.   ;)

boykster:

--- Quote from: Chris G on June 21, 2007, 05:19:01 pm ---Not to mention those big severance checks they have to write to folks.   ;)

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KNOCKOUT!!  :dizzy:

shorthair:
No, I meant health care and pharmaceuticals, as they're not about keeping people healthy - let alone making sure they don't eventually need such things, ever - but making sure they need something to fix what could otherwise be addressed, or even avoided, with a balanced lifestyle. And everyone involved in either or both of those 'fields' is an accomplice, whether unwittingly.

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