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kestrel91316

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6. We are spending a lot of money keeping people alive with lots of

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Wed Nov 13, 2013, 12:10 PM

Nov 2013

drugs, surgery, doctor visits, etc when we would all be better off directing our efforts toward keeping those people healthy in the first place with proper diet and sufficient exercise.

But noooooo..........we gotta keep Big Ag and the fast food corporations and Big Pharma happy, and we gotta let everybody indulge their gargantuan appetites like spoiled children.

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Gotta Read: What makes U.S. health care so overpriced? It’s not what you think [View all] sinkingfeeling Nov 2013 OP

And guess what drives up the cost of treating those with chronic illness? Scuba Nov 2013 #1

The budget under sequestration is ~already~ less then Ryan's plans, isn't it? Fumesucker Nov 2013 #2

"Bipartisan" would imply that there are two sides. Scuba Nov 2013 #3

Republicans make the argument that madville Nov 2013 #5

Mr. Brickbat told me once that something like 70 percent of his union's health care coverage Brickbat Nov 2013 #4

We are spending a lot of money keeping people alive with lots of kestrel91316 Nov 2013 #6