Papantonio: Big Pharma Lies Cost Women Their Lives

Damned Straight Leen, and what do we have to Thank any of them For??? Not a Damned Thing, as far as I am concerned their BS is why my mother lost her life...

Sorry to hear that, KB. :( This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about. This country's health care system sucks and it's not in the business to help anybody.

Oh but it is.... To help the wealthy.... =(

For the life of me, I don't know how you do it. We have some problems with our system, as does Britain, Sweden, etc etc - but we don't even THINK about what you have to think about every single day. I am shocked that there hasn't been more public outrage at this despicable insurance situation. I worked in that system too, and it was stupid, counting how many tissues or part-boxes, or partial rolls of TP, someone used, or how many paper spit trays were given. It was preposterous and just stupid.

And KB, you too - when you even have to FORM that question in your mind (about your mom) it's a moral outrage. You are rightfully pissed about it.

This is exactly what OWS and the 99% - and the Occupy sites in every American city, is about. In the all-time richest country in world medical treatment is a RIGHT, not a privilege for the rich. FIGHT ON.

my answer to Leen is to you too. (above)

Thanks H2, it is harder to deal with when it is a family member... I do, so you know Agree...

I do know. My father died on his 50th birthday as a result of a misdiagnosis by an elderly small town doc who called a "brain aneurysm" a "bad case of arthritis." It's something one never ever forgets, or "gets over."

Yup... Someone thought it was better to go to Lunch than to look into my mother's case...

Hardytoo, you are so correct that these are things we shouldn't even have to think about but are forced to by a heinous system that puts profit ahead of saving lives or giving the people a quality of life. How the insurance companies were ever given the power to make life and death decisions on our lives is a disgrace. Why the US just doesn't believe in truly helping its people is a commentary on where this country's soul and priorities have gone.

Yes it is to help the wealthy. Do you think the average man or woman in the street would still be alive given what Dick Cheney has been through? He has gotten world class care all his life and is basically a machine not even human anymore, but for anyone else to receive that kind of care would never happen.

I know Leen and it SuxzNutz!!! =(

This is what happens to everything that is not regulated or have regulations enforced by the government: Witness mortgages, investments, banking, media, etc. Civil society creates government to protect them from harm both internally and externally. Corporations are merely interested in profits, which have nothing to do with safety or fairness. You can see it and hear it on the media every day with ads about reducing you tax debt, pills that make you thin, or reduce colesterol, or pain. Yet the disclaimers are longer than the actual ad itself. Corporations are modern day snake oil salesmen, and we have to regulate them and tax them so that they do the right things. It may make things more expensive, but it is safer to use those products the better.

Excellent comment, kvb1. That sums it up.

We need what we pay into... Their wages come from our taxes, perhaps their performance would increase if we the Poor and Working,m Fading middle Class were not the only one's that had to pay Taxes???