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Is medicine part of the military-"medical"-industrial complex? I think so. Until we remove healthcare from the realm of industrialization and the dehumanizing monetarized "market" for medicine, we will never have an affordable, fair, and state of the art health care system in the U.S. It's like college football...everyone cashes in except for the players. Patients are the "players" that supply the market with new opportunity for exploitation and profit but most unlikely to benefit themselves(except for the elite whose celebrity and wealth make a benefit irrelevant).

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