Money for nothing
New bill reforming Medicare raises Big Pharma's profits at cost of seniors'
lives
Tis the season to be greedy.
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Why is the cost of prescription drugs such a crisis, and why are America's
drug costs so much higher than those in other industrialized countries?
Largely because drug companies are run by heartless greedy bastards, and
our health care system allows -- no, encourages -- their worst tendencies.
So how has President Bush "fixed" this problem?
By pushing hard for, and then signing, marginally beneficial legislation
that will cost taxpayers $400 billion -- some $139 billion of which, over
one third, will go directly into the profit-laden pockets of those same
drug companies.
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"Iraq is a rallying cause for al-Qaida - it's allowed them to attract new
recruits," said Kenneth Katzman, a terrorism specialist at the
Congressional Research Service, the think tank for the House and Senate.
"This was an organization that was under enormous pressure. Iraq has put
new wind in its sails, definitely."
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