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For profit Health Care use to be illegal

 
birdseye 2019-02-20 17:41:37 

Most of you seem to be unaware of this fact and behave like people are crazy when the idea of of a national Government subsidized health insurance is mentioned

In 1973, Nixon did a personal favor for his friend and campaign financier, Edgar Kaiser, then president and chairman of Kaiser-Permanente. Nixon signed into law, the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, in which medical insurance agencies, hospitals, clinics and even doctors, could begin functioning as for-profit business entities instead of the service organizations they were intended to be. And which insurance company got the first taste of federal subsidies to implement HMOA73 … *gasp* … why, it was Kaiser-Permanente! What are the odds?


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