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This scumbag is so exemplary of the worst predatory elements in the health care industry - and there are so many of them - driving folks bankrupt and worse. Now he is running walk in clinics to fleece the poor and working against a public option. The most down and out crack addict on the street is above this vile and contemptible monster.

We are the last industrialized nation without a national healthcare structure. Why is this still a partisan issue? Remember that modern national plans are much more progressive (see Netherlands) than Hillary's Plan of the early 90's, using the government to regulate the insurance company while maintaining a privatized health system. I am often frustrated with the tunnel vision of Americans. They often ardently refute the argument that health care can be a "right". Why can't it be a "right"? Why can't we take care of our own? Remember, education has only become a "right" in recent history. Up until a few hundred years ago, only the rich could afford private tutors for their children. But yet, as Americans building a nation, we knew the importance of a good education and made it accessible. For many years, America has been the trend setter in democracy and industrialization. Let us not fall behind the rest of the world on such an important matter.