If your body's a temple, then Partners Healthcare and Blue Cross are the moneychangers

adamg — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:47:32 +0000

Charley on the MTA recommends the Globe's latest story on our own little health-care cartel, and sums up what this and revelations about local doctors pushing pills while getting paid by the drug companies really means:

... Health care costs, particularly in MA, are not just high because of some vague, unknowable "market forces"; it isn't just that the Health Care Invisible Hand mysteriously keeps us all under its thumb, and gosh golly, after all There's Nothing That Can Be Done.

No, it's simpler than that. We're actively, intentionally, unethically and possibly illegally getting screwed.

Partners Health Care

If your body's a temple, then Partners Healthcare and Blue Cross are the moneychangers