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Originally posted by Allenb83
reply to post by burntheships
Yet another reason why big companies in the U.S. need to be de-regulated from big government interests. It reminds me of when during a debate Ron Paul said that after the housing bubble we should have let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the auto industry fail, instead of bailing them out. He was absolutely right. It would of caused them to go into bankruptcy and this artificial answer of giving them inflated money wouldn't have prolonged more problems for us down the road, thereby creating another bust in our not so distant future. Who here thinks its a good idea to let your government decide wether or not to give money to a large mortgage company that is failing? They aren't smart enough to do that! They don't even read the bills that they pass!
Ron Paul wants to get the government out of the market so that the market can determine prices based on consumer demand and become truly competitive again. If healthcare were allowed to be privatized, it would be more affordable. It is going to get to the point in this country, where only the rich are going to be able to afford healthcare if the government keeps sticking their hands in it and getting their share of the profits, or 'distributing the wealth'.
Originally posted by beezzer
Could this account for the drug shortage also?
ie; Create a problem, then offer a solution?
Originally posted by beezzer
This is career ending.
Originally posted by burntheships
Once again the Hope and Change President Obama who had promised to negotiate on
C-Span, is instead found to have cut a closed-door deal with a powerful lobby, Big Pharma..
What ever happened to this?
"I want to put an end to the game playing.”
A new trove of emails shows President Barack Obama’s White House agreed to help drug companies block a proposal to bring down medicine prices so they would back Obama’s healthcare plan.
www.newsmax.com...
The emails show that Big Pharma cut a deal with the White House, they sought
confirmation that President Obama would stop a proposal intended to bring down medicine prices.
On June 3, 2009, one of the lobbyists e-mailed Nancy-Ann DeParle, the president’s health care adviser.
Ms. DeParle reassured the lobbyist. Although Mr. Obama was overseas, she wrote, she and other top officials had “made decision, based on how constructive you guys have been, to oppose importation” on a different proposal. ...
And so it happened...
Just like that, Mr. Obama’s staff signaled a willingness to put aside support for the
reimportation of prescription medicines at lower prices and by doing so solidified a compact
with an industry the president had vilified on the campaign trail. Central to Mr. Obama’s drive to
remake the nation’s health care system was an unlikely collaboration with the pharmaceutical
industry that forced unappealing trade-offs. www.nytimes.com...
Well President Obama, in your own words:
“That’s an example of the same old game playing in Washington.
You know, I don’t want to learn how to play the game better.
www.youtube.com...
edit on 9-6-2012 by burntheships because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jacobe001
That's pretty much what happens when you privatize anything where the company's in the private sector steal our money via the government rather than us being able to buy it directly. That is how capitalism is supposed to work in order to control costs. When they are getting money from the government, they can charge anything they want and we have to pay for it.
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Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by jacobe001
That's pretty much what happens when you privatize anything where the company's in the private sector steal our money via the government rather than us being able to buy it directly. That is how capitalism is supposed to work in order to control costs. When they are getting money from the government, they can charge anything they want and we have to pay for it.
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... It has NOTHING to do with "privitizing companies"... it has EVERYTHING to do with allowing certain corporations to have a monopoly over certain industries... This is NOT what happens in true Capitalism/free market, this is what happens under socialist mandates.
The Federal Trades Commission Act, signed into law by PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT President Woodrow Wilson in 1914, "was (supposedly) authorized to issue “cease and desist” orders to large corporations to curb unfair trade practices", but in fact it just gave more power to certain large corporations (ie Rockefeller Corporation, ExxonMobile, Fannie Mae, JP Morgan Chase, etc) and allowed them to become monopolies in the industries those large corporations specialize in...
Originally posted by mrsoul2009
reply to post by Freenrgy2
I hear you barking big dog - but do you truly believe we're better off with Mitt? I'm not convinced.
We're in a quandary this election.
Originally posted by mrsoul2009
reply to post by METACOMET
Just so you have your facts straight: The provision being discussed here is the original Medicare D developed by the GOP Bush Administration. Medicare Part D forbids the federal government from negotiating prices with the drug companies. Its estimated that over the next 10 years, the rule will generate approximately $500 billion for the industry with no tangible benefit for taxpayers or the economy as a whole. This was a GOP proposal and Obama is holding it over Big Pharmas heads to get support for his overall healthcare plan. Politics as usual.
Originally posted by mbkennel
, why do the Republicans want to repeal Obamacare (which is a pro-insurance-company regulation scheme) and not actual socialized medicine, i.e. Medicare and VA?
If socialized medicine is so bad, why do they want to inflict it on the elderly and veterans?