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thomhartmann

(3,979 posts)
Fri May 16, 2014, 03:36 PM May 2014

Thom Hartmann: Big Pharma Pfizer is Changing Nationality



America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio joins Thom Hartmann. American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is currently in talks to buy British drug company AstraZeneca for $106 billion. If the deal goes through - Pfizer would get to change from being an American company to a British one. Why would it want to do that? And what does that say about our loophole-infested tax code?

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DhhD

(4,695 posts)
1. $6,000.00 is the deductible for persons buying the ACA HMO Bronze Plans.
Fri May 16, 2014, 09:38 PM
May 2014

That $6,000.00 is going to cause the American people to vote for a candidate promising nationalized health care or Medicare for all.

Private insurance companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield might want to examine that deductible for the many many who are just above the 138% poverty line, especially if they are getting paid almost completely by the ACA government subsidy. Same for medicine.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
2. Just like you need all the letters to make an alphabet.......
Sat May 17, 2014, 01:51 AM
May 2014

...you need all the companies to make a monopoly.

- It's simple really.

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DhhD

(4,695 posts)
3. Californians sue Blue Shield for failure to disclose their real private plans, sold under Obamacare.
Sat May 17, 2014, 08:30 AM
May 2014

Bait on lower cost Plans then switch allowances-Same old Conservative business scheme as usual.

http://news.yahoo.com/california-consumers-duped-blue-shields-limited-obamacare-plans-194137220--sector.html

Texans who bought lower cost Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Plans received a letter, after, buying the plans to expect higher co-pays when visiting the doctor and for other services prescribed by doctors.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
8. $6,000.00 introduction in the video above, said by Thom Hartmann.
Sat May 17, 2014, 09:47 PM
May 2014

Americans are paying a health care deductible of $6,000.00 for a low cost Plan that should be received as almost free national health care or Medicare for all. The $6,000.00 is either a subsidy/deductible or a deductible/subsidy, to the Medical Industrial Complex, how ever I look at it.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
9. Then Pap says that the other half of this story is that there will be no taxes for the
Sat May 17, 2014, 09:54 PM
May 2014

Medical Industrial Complex to pay, so America will lose that revenue also.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
4. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been in the local and state elections for years.
Sat May 17, 2014, 10:51 AM
May 2014

They realized that these races are relatively cheap and their money makes a huge difference. Couple that with the fact that they are the secret owner of several courthouse/Internet newspapers designed to influence jurors and create an anti plaintiff bias. They feature issues and stories that will be covered in trials where they are currently picking juries. The bored jurors waiting around can get these papers free right outside the door and read these one-sided articles and editorials. These papers all have "Record" in the name such as the one in my area, The Southeasttexasrecord.com. Initially, they did not even sell ads, but they found that people saw through their plan. Now they look like a regular paper and toned down the rhetoric except in the editorials.
Our Democracy has been destroyed by an all out assault by corporations and the 1%! We have been asleep at the wheel and it is past time to wake up and call this shit out!

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
5. Great View...and why can't we enforce FDR's "Buy America Law?"
Sat May 17, 2014, 02:01 PM
May 2014

on these companies dodging taxes by offshoring and hiding their profits when they benefit from so many US taxbreaks?

allan01

(1,950 posts)
7. re:Thom Hartmann: Big Pharma Pfizer is Changing Nationality
Sat May 17, 2014, 04:18 PM
May 2014

then we treat them like any ohter foregin company,.lots of tarrifs

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