In one more sign that the U.S. no longer is a functioning democracy, the Obama Administration has struck a deal with Big Pharma: To win its support for health care reform, the Administration has promised that any reform legislation will ban the government from negotiating lower drug prices. So Big Pharma can charge whatever it wants for patented drugs. In return, the pharmaceuticals soon will begin a $150 million advertising campaign on behalf of reform.
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More: Sicko - Movie By Michael Moore
Moore shows us how France, England, Canada and - yikes! - Cuba actually help sick people instead of letting them wither and die for lack of health insurance. Then he instructs us to loot those places for ideas. Anti-American? Hell, no. Moore argues that if another country builds a better car, we buy it. If it crafts a better wine, we drink it. Why not free universal health care?
Update August 18, 2009: Whistleblower: Insurance firms 'very much' behind town hall disruptions
Health insurance companies deserve "a great deal of the blame" for the sometimes violent disruptions to town hall meetings on health care, says a former health insurance company executive turned whistleblower. Wendell Potter, a former executive with health insurer Cigna who now works as the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that health insurance companies "are very much behind the town hall disruptions that you see and a lot of the deception that's going on in terms of disinformation that many Americans, apparently, are believing."
Health insurance companies deserve "a great deal of the blame" for the sometimes violent disruptions to town hall meetings on health care, says a former health insurance company executive turned whistleblower. Wendell Potter, a former executive with health insurer Cigna who now works as the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that health insurance companies "are very much behind the town hall disruptions that you see and a lot of the deception that's going on in terms of disinformation that many Americans, apparently, are believing."
