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To: neolib who wrote (237879)	11/15/2013 8:24:46 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543632

The fact that nobody has bothered to do this is yet another example of how incompetent the whole exercise has been. IMO, it is because both insurance companies and hospitals have been scamming people for decades now. I could put "medical sector" instead of "hospitals" in that sentence, except I don't think it has been the entire sector. But it has been many parts of it, with the hospitals and insurance companies as the lynchpins in the scam. The articles that came out earlier this year about the way hospitals charge people should have proven that to everyone. The only reason that they could get away with that is that the insurance companies who pay most of their bills have allowed them to do it. The reason they allowed them to do it is that it was in their financial interest to do it. Just as, e.g., it is in real estate agents' interest to keep jacking up housing prices. Of course, no one ever does anything wrong with any of that--every individual is innocent.