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 bentand IngaPremium
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Re: Besides lecturing, will judge reject Allen's plan? Sorry for going WAY off topic, but you could start a thread about puppies and it'd end up in a healthcare debate.
said by matrix3D:
While this is completely off-topic, but since you brought it up... the US Government stepped in to take over a whore house in Nevada after it failed to pay back taxes and they couldn't even keep that from going bankrupt -- what makes you think it will succeed in running an entire healthcare system??
Medicare. It works quite well, actually. It would work even better if we could fund it and Medicaid better.
said by matrix3D:
It's not "universal health coverage," it's universal health MANAGEMENT. The Democrats are selling you, and every other "the government can do no wrong" sucker, a pill of goods when they tell you that there will be no rationing of healthcare. Healthcare is a LIMITED RESOURCE and there are not enough doctors as it is right now -- this is something Congress (and Obama) have failed to address: who will get what and when?
YOU determine how much care you get by how much you can afford. Not a lot different than now, except that some poor and kinda poor people would have some sort of health care coverage.
said by matrix3D:
Democrats live in some sort of utopia inside their minds... the rest of us live in something called reality.
For any Republican to claim that we can't afford some sort of minimum health care standard for every American is so ironic that I have to laugh. Especially considering that they racked up a 12 trillion dollar public debt fighting a war for profit.
It's OK to bomb the shit out of a country halfway around the world, but it's not OK to give medicine to poor people?
If you're a member of the Religious Right, the irony is even more delicious... Who would Jesus bomb?
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| said by bent:Medicare. It works quite well, actually. It would work even better if we could fund it and Medicaid better. Yeah, it works quite well by underpaying providers by an average of 30%. How do the providers make up for that? By charging the rest of us higher rates, regardless of whether or not we have insurance. | |
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