Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Dutch Rojas argue US healthcare is expensive because corporations and industry groups shape policy via political spending and committee targeting rather than direct bribery.
No healthcare? Health insurance companies know exactly how to price you out.
It's us vs. corporate greed. Every time.
Corporations as vectors of chronic disease,
commercial products that contribute to 31% of all deaths globally.
Ask yourself: why does the richest, most powerful country have the worst healthcare of any major country?
The answer: corporations can buy politicians.
The health system and insurance industry does not bribe Congress.
It concentrates 8.2 times more money into the one committee that regulates it than into every other committee combined.
Bribery is illegal.
Architecture is not.
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