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Tangent0011 year, 7 months ago
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The 'rich' already pay for the 'poor'. Or havenn't you noticed that health care coverage continues to rise both because hospitals have to bake in the costs of covering the uninsured to the prices charged to the insured AND because health insurance companies are expected to show 'growth', usually by the denial of coverage to their paid customers.
I'm of the camp that socialism where it comes to medicine makes perfect sense. We used to employ socialism by saying a corporation shouldn't make profit from war, but no more (now we give them no-bid contracts). You may disagree, but I find war profiteering disgusting. I also find medical profiteering disgusting. Again, you may disagree. Elective procedures are an entirely different matter, and I don't mind doctors making a decent living off of their years and years of training. But an artificially inserted middle-man like an insurance company? The ONLY way they make money is by denying coverage.
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Endoscopy1 year, 7 months ago
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LOL
In England they have a problem that health care costs too much. They have Socialized medicine. Part of cutting down on the costs is having people with heart problems and arthritis self medicate and not take up a doctors time. Sounds like a good thing, right?
Think about the fact that the government is only efficient in the armed forces. Everywhere else bureaucracy is very inefficient with lots of people enforcing a bunch of rules the way they see fit.
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Tangent0011 year, 7 months ago
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In regards to your first point: Since you didn't provide any links to source material I can't really comment on the validity of your claim. I would say that a 'heart condition' is pretty vague and may indeed be best managed by medication. Certainly better than having no access to any medical advice whatsoever, yes?
Related point: Are you actually suggesting that the Grand, Great America can't do better than the country we fought to gain our freedom from? Come on! Where's your patriotism?
FYI, a single-payer system doesn't put the government in charge of medical care, it just makes them pay for it.
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