Yeah, this makes sense…

[wakeflood]

Quote from article about medical costs in “for profit” industry:

Here’s a fact that puts the full scope of this troubling trend into perspective — Brill writes: “The health-care industrial complex spends more than three times what the military industrial complex spends in Washington”. Specifically, the medical industry has spent $5.36 billion on lobbying in Washington D.C. since 1998. Compare that expenditure to the $1.53 billion spent lobbying by the also-bloated defense and aerospace sector.

One line summarizes the breadth of Brill’s enormous piece: “If you are confused by the notion that those least able to pay are the ones singled out to pay the highest rates, welcome to the American medical marketplace.”

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[redblack]

low wages = cheap, processed food*

cheap, processed food = poor diet

poor diet = poor health

voila!

instant profits. (or at least deferred cost, recoverable from the government.)

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*obviously, this is an exaggeration intended to make a point, but you know there’s a nugget of truth in there.

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[wakeflood]

All reductivism aside, R/B…stop making sense!! ;-)

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[redblack]

sorry.

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