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pat_k

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43. Goes right along with the regime's approach to any consumer protection.

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 11:23 PM

Nov 15

Deceptive disclosures. endless "small print," hard sells, on and on, that ruin peoples lives are all good with the felon's regime, regardless of how central central a product is in consumer's life. Hey' it was there in the contract wasn't it?

We are on our own in a jungle of increasingly damaging and predatory businesses, with health care and the fourth estate topping the list "changing business models" that are directly causing enormous harms.

In the general scheme of things with the regime, consumer protection is a dirty word. AFAIK, the FTC Consumer Protection Bureau and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have essentially stopped all the work those agencies were doing before Jan 20, 2025. As acting Director of CFPB Vought tried to fire 90% of the people but was blocked by a court. Still fired a bunch. He also refused to the funding draw and ordered everyone to not just stop investigations and enforcement actions, but actually reversed actions.

I'm less up on what's happened at FTC CPB, but I have no doubt they aren't doing much protecting of anyone. For example, came across these tidbits from the felon's appointed director:

In contrast to the view of the FTC under Khan, Mufarrige recognized that the sharing of information on the Internet benefits consumers and allows much of the free content that consumers enjoy.

Mufarrige noted that the goal of the Trump administration is to promote economic growth through AI and not to strangle it with regulation.

But, back to our insane health care system. Medical care is not a fucking commodity! You need what you need when you need it. "Market forces" have no place. NONE whatsoever.

And our 100% Fee for Service model is even crazier.

Arrrgghh. I'll stop there.

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The original ACA set minimum standards for participating insurers. The Republicans did away with that. Midnight Writer Nov 15 #7

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No different than the people who continue to purchase Medicare Advantage policies Hope22 Nov 15 #10

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Sounds good for those in MA. Hope22 Nov 15 #23

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Maybe his $82k bill was his 20% that Medicare Ilsa Nov 15 #13

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+1. Her lawsuit was filed in 2023 dalton99a Nov 15 #33

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This old adage comes to mind. llmart Nov 15 #16

Caveat Emptor DET Nov 15 #18

Michael Moore brought up these shirts of policies dflprincess Nov 15 #19

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I wonder how closely these chumps read their policies... Mark.b2 Nov 15 #30

Goes right along with the regime's approach to any consumer protection. pat_k Nov 15 #43

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For-Profit-Healthcare...... think about that phrase. IcyPeas Nov 16 #46