Wendell, God bless him, won't matter. He could go into every home in America and give a hour-long presentation to each family on how the insurers are screwing us, and it wouldn't matter. There is too much money at stake for the industry to ever let their well-paid lackeys in Congress pass a bill to the detriment of the monopoly. Even if they did pass something called a "public option" or "universal coverage," it would be a toothless dragon for which no one in their right minds would sign up.
Money, that's what matters to politicians. Not polls, not protests, nothing but money.
But you have to pick your battles. As drug treatment for mental disorders has been shown to be at least mildly effective in most cases, and at least temporarily, the fact that they are funded by drug companies is low on my list of concerns.
What concerns me more is when this motive to uncover astroturfing - which is a good and noble motive - is itself exploited by corporations and interest groups who are themselves pushing a destructive agenda. Get what I mean?
Motivation matters. If you're motivated to uncover misleading statements, that's good. If you're motivated to gather followers for your anti-psychiatry space religion, then that's not so good.
No surprise here. This is the same org that came out against the precautionary principle a couple of years ago.
see that's why we live in a free country. If you don't like him why read about it. hmm.
Wendell, God bless him, won't matter. He could go into every home in America and give a hour-long presentation to each family on how the insurers are screwing us, and it wouldn't matter. There is too much money at stake for the industry to ever let their well-paid lackeys in Congress pass a bill to the detriment of the monopoly. Even if they did pass something called a "public option" or "universal coverage," it would be a toothless dragon for which no one in their right minds would sign up.
Money, that's what matters to politicians. Not polls, not protests, nothing but money.
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