Surprise! American Health Care Costs Too Much

Booman Tribune

If there is one thing the Democrats in Congress could do this year and the next to expand their newly won majorities in Congress and capture the White House in the 2008, it would be to address the ever expanding burden health care costs place on the 99% of Americans who aren't ridiculously wealthy. We have privatized our health care system under Republican rule for the benefit of special interests (Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies, for the most part) and the results have been devastating for millions of Americans. Americans like me. Americans like you.

Time to start spending some of that political capital the Democrats won last November on the only special interest that really matters: our families.

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