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Thursday Links

Posted on February 2, 2023February 2, 2023 by John C. Goodman

Video: A Canadian describes what socialized medicine is like in Canada. Get ready to hit your pause button to appreciate the examples.

If you used GoodRx to find bargains on your medications, it sent your sensitive health data to tech companies like Meta and Google to use for advertising, according to the FTC.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins found that 54 percent of people believe landlords should be allowed to deny housing to people with drug addiction and 64 percent believe employers should be allowed to deny them employment.  But if addiction is defined as a “disability,” none of this would be legal.

What a Democrat aligned advocacy group wants from Congress on health care: Continue Obamacare subsidies for the rich; extend Medicare drug price controls to everyone else; hearing, dental and eye care benefits for Medicare enrollees – regardless of income and despite the fact that those benefits are available for free from Medicare Advantage plans.

2 thoughts on “Thursday Links”

  1. Ron Greiner MSA King says:
    February 2, 2023 at 10:54 am

    Socialized Medicine in Canada sounds exactly like Centene, the largest in [Medicaid and Obamacare], Hillary Style HMOs here in the States where poor FOSTER children in Chicago have to [wait over a year] to see a doctor even though Centene gets $15 billion a year from the Land of Lincoln. This is DEADLY Devon. Centene has Medicaid in Iowa and Kentucky plus Hillary’s Children Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) in both those states. Let’s all agree to call CHIP – Hillary’s KidPloy. CMS reports Hillary’s KidPloy has 35% FRAUDULENT Payments in 2022, higher than any other federal health program.

    It was Iowa Republican RINO Senator Chuck Grassley that got Hillary’s KidPloy REAUTHORIZED in 2007 after the good President Bush Vetoed KidPloy TWICE. Republican RINO Senator Hatch got Hillary’s KidPloy passed initially in 1997 in the BBA.

    These goofball politicians like Grassley call Hillary’s KidPloy as “Vitol”.

    Someone please explain to these Socialist politicians that Government is not the SOLUTION. Government is the PROBLEM!

    Socialized Medicine is very poorly managed and EXPENSIVE Government Medicine, period!

    In other news: Centene is paying Indiana $66.5 million for “Double Billing” the poorest Americans on Indiana Medicaid.

    America’s biggest problems are Democrats, Blue Cross Association and Centene with Socialized Medicine, Obamacare and Medicaid. It’s TABOO to mention the Blue Cross Monopoly in the FAKE News Media. In Russia everybody knew too, but you just couldn’t talk about it. Got the BLUES? Feeling SCAMMED?

    Vote Trump / Heath FREEDOM / 2024

    Did you know that Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) has a Hillary Style HMO charging over $41,000 a year for family coverage at the Norman, OK School District? Cole is Chairman of the House Rules Committee.. Blue Cross of Oklahoma is charging these poor Okie teachers $31,968 ($10,000 more than the National Average) a year for family coverage. Blue Cross of Chicago gets the Obamacare people because that is how the Blue Cross Medical Mafia has divided it it up in Oklahoma. Blue Cross of Chicago also has Texas Obamacare. These guys are tight wads and Texans are not going to MD Anderson Cancer Hospital, that’s for sure.

    Imagine Blue Cross charging over $30,000 a year for government employees family coverage for this ULTRA EXPENSIVE Employer-Based Benefits. A 30-year-old couple and 2 children can get President Trump’s high-quality low-premium STM in Norman, OK for just $$3,780 per year which is $28,188 per year CHEAPER than Oklahoma’s Blue Cross HMO that costs $31,968 per year. Admit it, $31,968 is darn close to $32,000 a year!

    TRUMP’s Plan coverage is better because the Blue Cross HMO pays NOTHING when the sick go out of network. Plus, TRUMP Plan the Accident Deductible is only $250 then pays 100%. After (2) years the Accident Deductible vanaishes to ZERO. (Consumers with children LOVE this ZERO Deductible and itty-bitty premiums!) Plus, the deductible is waived if an Urgent Care facility is used!

    I predict if Oklahoma teachers had their choice they would pick the better TRUMP Plan and save $28,188 a year. YOU used to talk about saving people money Devon, what happened?

    If the Blue Cross corruption is this BAD in Norman, OK can Rep Tom Cole lead the Rules Committee effectively and protect all of America against these cunning financial preditors?

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  2. Bob Hertz says:
    February 3, 2023 at 7:16 am

    The article titled “What a Democrat aligned advocacy group wants…” was gated and I could not read it. Please try and display it in full, thank you.

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