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Ed Asner explains health care premiums

Posted by Colette Washing... on March 10, 2010 - 4:20pm

Ed Asner explains what your health care premiums pay for–and a lot of it’s not health care. About 30% goes to paperwork, advertising, lobbyists, obscene executive salaries, and profiteering. That’s why we need single payer, California OneCare.

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