David Maris, a writer and well-known health care equity research analyst, conducted a poll of 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters. A few of the highlights:
- 80% of those polled said that the rich should pay higher taxes and that it’s fair that approximately the top 10% of tax payers pay more than 70% of the taxes in the US and about 40% of employed people pay no income tax.
- 93% say that student loan debt should be forgiven
- 98% believe that health care should be free
- 98% believe that Insurance companies make too much money and some of their profits should be taken to pay for more healthcare for others
- 95% believe that drug prices should be controlled
- 93% believe that communications like cell phone and internet access be a right and not just reserved for the rich and we should have free internet and cell phone service as a national goal.
Well I can agree with them on the insurance companies. They are making a killing. My parents had a tough decision recently..to drop my mom from my dads company insurance coverage. Why? Because it was by that time..costing my father more than $12,000 a year out of his yearly take home pay that it just wasn't worth it.
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