You walk into a grocery store. You get to the checkout counter and present your basket of groceries. The checkstand operator asks you to swipe your card first, before ringing them up, and the store's computer checks both your available credit line and bank balance.
It then decides what the basket of groceries on the belt is "worth" to you and what you can afford, setting a multiplier that results, if you happen to have a lot of money (or credit) in a price that is 10x as much as the person behind you pays.
Oh, and to keep you from figuring it out the checkstand doesn't display any prices either; you find out how much your card was hit for your groceries only after you leave the store.
How long would this sort of thing last in the grocery store, the auto repair shop or the coffee shop?
It would take less than five minutes, I suspect, before the police showed up and led the store manager out in handcuffs.
Note that this is not just a pharama practice -- it is true across the board when it comes to medical goods and services in the United States today.
So why, given that one dollar in five spent in this country (that is, one dollar in five of your money!) winds up subject to this sort of outrageous practice are you not right now taking legal but forceful action to stop it -- such as either cutting your income to the point that you pay an effective zero tax rate, refusing to provide any sort of service to anyone in the medical field and picketing everyone involved in this "industry" along with "occupying" your state legislatures?
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