People in America who are outspoken conservatives working to kill social programs like Medicare are either liars or deniers, caught in their own ignorance and lies. But that doesn't seem to stop them.
The rest of us are forced to focus on reality: the real "takers" in America are, all too frequently, the corporations and their Congressional supporters who profit from cheating. Cheaters often include the very people we are taught to respect. Like elected officials and doctors and hospital administrators. They're the people who rip off Medicare when they take kickbacks from drug manufacturers.
The two drugs have been declared equivalently miraculous. Tested side by side in six major trials, both prevent blindness in a common old-age affliction. Biologically, they are cousins. They’re even made by the same company. But one holds a clear price advantage.
Avastin costs about $50 per injection.
Lucentis costs about $2,000 per injection.
Doctors choose the more expensive drug more than half a million times every year, a choice that costs the Medicare program, the largest single customer, an extra $1 billion or more annually. ...WaPo
What do conservatives blame for the rising costs of Medicare? Social programs, of course. Look for who the campaign supporters are and you'll find some of the profits on drugs like Lucentis.
Then review the respect our doctors get. But first, scan this list for your doctor's name and any evidence of his own profiteering.
