{"id":60317,"date":"2026-01-27T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=60317"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:06:35","slug":"just-saying-aoc-textbook-example-of-using-visual-aids-how-patients-get-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=60317","title":{"rendered":"JUST SAYING:  AOC&#8217;s Uses Visual Aids To Show How Patients Get Screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rep. AOC Calls Out CVS Health\u2019s Corporate Strategy to Monopolize Patient Care\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ayNKCNhoD7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">This is a textbook example by AOC of how to use visual aids, facts, and statistics to expose corporate abuse. She lays out, step by step, how CVS Health\u2014which owns CVS pharmacies, the Caremark pharmacy benefit manager, and the insurance giant Aetna\u2014uses market concentration to dominate every layer of the healthcare system. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">She also points to how massive corporate consolidation elsewhere, including CBS, owned by Paramount Global (controlled by National Amusements), reflects the same profit-first mindset. As AOC puts it, the result is simple: &#8220;patients get screwed.&#8221; Competition is crushed, costs rise, choices disappear, and people\u2019s ability to get affordable healthcare is steadily destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a textbook example by AOC of how to use visual aids, facts, and statistics to expose corporate abuse. 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