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The Baucus Bill’s Inevitable Consequences

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“The Finance Committee chairman’s bill is a tangled web of federally-dictated insurance regulations, which would control every aspect of health insurance from covered benefits to permissible premiums. The bill would centralize the power of medical decisions with politicians and bureaucrats, not patients and doctors. And it would result in higher health insurance premiums, less consumer choice, and, ultimately, the rationing of health care.” — US Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl speaking on …

Manchester Protests Against NHS Privatisation and Cuts

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like buzzards grabbing the easy, lucrative, elective surgery cases leaving the NHS to cope with difficult, unprofitable emergency health care. Money is also wasted hiring grossly over-paid management “consultants” to troubleshoot resistance from the heath unions and force through privatisation. Then there are grossly inflated prices of medicines–the drug companies make millions in profits out the NHS–don’t get me started on them. Nationalise the lot of them! And money is also being wasted on …

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May 13th, 2009 at 8:25 am


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