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November 21, 2009
Your View: Health industry's logic off
Yes, Rep. Tim Walz voted for health care legislation. I am proud of him for having the morality to do the right thing.
I believe that it is immoral to grow rich on the backs of the sick. The average health insurance CEO makes millions a year. American health insurance costs twice as much per capita as that of the typical modern country. Yet we leave out 40 million people.
I have a nephew who reported the following to me: He was working on the ambulance crew of a county-owned ambulance program. He was told, “The important thing is to save lives.” Then the service was sold to a private company. He was told, “The important thing is to make money.”
Think about it and apply the logic to our entire health insurance industry.
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