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The healthcare industry has no use for the greed and heartlessness of the for-profit insurance companies. Since the Nixon administration put these HMOs in place in 1973, they’ve been working hard to deny care and drive America into bankruptcy. While it took them a few years to get a stranglehold on our hospitals and private practices, their influence has most certainly hit the fan these days… and they still don’t care. What are they doing with all of our money? Pampering and promising the world to our Congress and our President – spending billions of dollars to keep laws favoring their needless and inhumane role in our great nation’s medical field.

Aetna, Cigna, Anthem.. patients despise them and doctors abhor them. Our politicians need to cut their financial ties with these corporations and do what is right for the American people – declare for-profit health insurance illegal, liquidate their assets, and put these billions (trillions?) of dollars into a for-care healthcare system that works for patients and doctors.

Medicare is such a system here in the US, use that model to extend cost coverage to the rest of us. The answer is staring us right in the face – as long as our elected officials are willing to look past the dollar bills being fanned in their faces by insurance corporation lobbyists. Most people call it single-payer, because as with Medicare, the government is the only entity that pays doctors on our behalf.

These health insurance scoundrels have had their run and it has turned out very badly. They were created by law and they should be removed by law, now.