Big Pharma, Big Insurance And The Extreme Right Want Us All Dead-Left or Right

That's right, dead.  Because you're a hassle to keep alive due to your overwhelming expense.  Due to the fact that there are so many closed door, behind-the-scenes, zero transparency deals between the drug and insurance companies; due to the fact that making good care only available to the wealthy is the prime incentive of the Tea Partyers in Congress, who want everyone to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and if they could would cease to cover anyone's health care.  Except their own, of course, which happens to be the most all-encompassing, best-priced, health plan available in this country.  Of course, it makes perfect sense that they've made this level of plan available to themselves.  After all, we put them there, didn't we?...

How many of you are denied the level of care you know you need and just as importantly, deserve, by your own insurance plans that you pay through the nose for?  Yearly changes in what they're willing to cover just means confusion and fear for their consumers.  And after all, in the end, aren't we all just customers?  Don't we have some kind of the consumer oversight group?  FDA, FTC, you say?  Yeah, right...

How often are you told that the medicine you know works best for you isn't on the "preferred" list by your insurance company?   In my case, I had already, at their request, tried a different drug than the one prescribed by my own doctor, but they didn't care.  The drug they wanted me to take didn't work for me, but they were pushing this drug, not that drug, and that was that. In the same breath they told me that it's over $1500 a month (or more) to get just one tube of the drug that actually helps me.   That's health care? I don't care if you've got psoriasis, MS, or tennis elbow...can't we do better than that?

Think I'm exaggerating?  Look into it for yourselves.  Every time I have to jump into these issues for my family or myself, I feel like I'm staring down into a dark well that I can't see the bottom of.  And I'm the stone that I just dropped down into it, and I can't even hear anything when, or even if, I land...