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#EatTheRich

The poor cried,
"We are starving. There is no more bread, and we have nothing to eat."

The rich man said,
"Not my problem you don't work for your bread,"
as if he did not snatch away the grain by his own greedy hands and create filling bread for his own overflowing mouth.

The poor cried,
"We are dying. There is no more medicine, and we're all ill."

The rich man said,
"Not my problem you don't take care of yourselves,"
as if he did not buy all the medicine and raise prices so high
the gods themselves would not
be able to reach.

The poor people stopped crying,

and the rich man was satisfied...

Until they came knocking at his door one night;
their faces were sunken,
their flesh decaying,
their eyes sightless.
They were monsters
of the rich man's
own making.

As they devoured his flesh,
the rich man cried,
"Please, spare me!"

The ravenous zombies said,
"Not our fault
you fattened yourself
for slaughter."

Continued thread

Since the Affordable Care Act’s passage, the top five health insurers’ annual profits have jumped 230 percent, with much of that going to #UnitedHealthcare

America’s largest health insurers have raked in more than $371 billion in profits since the passage of the #aca.

More than 40 percent of that net income went to UnitedHealth Group, whose annual profits skyrocketed by nearly 400 percent while the company denied nearly one in three medical claims from its policyholders. 

Insurers garnered these profits as the average American families’ premiums have risen to nearly $26,000 a year. In all, since the ACA was passed in 2010, more than $9 trillion of revenue has flowed to the country’s largest health insurance companies.