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Originally Posted by kane
The reason this hasn't happened yet is because most of the people out there have some kind of health insurance that covers the cost of prescriptions so they don't really care how much they cost as long as they only have to pay a small co-pay. They also don't care how much the hospital bill is and how much they were overcharged for some things because their insurance is paying for it.
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The insurance companies pay for nothing. Those insured pay for everything through their premiums.
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Originally Posted by BFT3K
They've only spent over $400,000,000 in lobbying and advertising to stop this bill (so far). I guess it must be a bad idea if the insurance companies are this upset about it.
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Which is why they are spending so much to keep the status quo.