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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
just like taking money / services on credit and not paying for them.
nobody took yr money. you went to the hospital and they fixed up yr foot, and now they want to be paid for it.
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True, though we don't really have any choice but to go to the doctor when we are sick and the prices are completely out of control. Monopolies are a kind of theft in terms of anti-trust, but the American health care system is essentially one that includes the insurance companies (I know you work for one, but my wife works for a hospital, we have to take the best paying jobs we can after all).
Obama claims he'll be working on
that little problem too, but we have heard that one before...