It depends on which side of the spectrum you are on. One side got more billionaires than ever before made on the backs of medical needs for Covid and vaccines...
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The other solution is to be healthy, then you don't need health care.
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Pretty much all things the government sticks their fat greasy fingers into turns into a system that screws the middle class, why should healthcare be any different.
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
Originally Posted By TheDogSaysBark: welcome to 2008 glad you're caught up. this was the entire argument made against obamacare. don't worry friend. obamacare was written to make it so bad we all collapsed into a single payer system. plenty of sound bites from the guy who helped craft it all about it. your best bet is to get as healthy as you can on your own and get rid of the docs. wait until you figure out how dei is digging itself into the medical industry.
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Prior to the ACA though, you literally had two choices...die or die pennyless.
You started a thread advocating for the government to take from each according to their ability and give to each according to their need. You don’t see a parallel?
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Originally Posted By C3H5N3O9:
Originally Posted By midcap:
Originally Posted By MFP_4073:
OP decries the welfare state and proposes : MORE welfare state.
Communism.
Communism for EVERYONE.
what are you ever going on about?
You started a thread advocating for the government to take from each according to their ability and give to each according to their need. You don’t see a parallel?
It has been great for me. Are you on it? If not, maybe stop the Medicare rants until you are.
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Originally Posted By intheburbs: And what kind of bullshit is Medicare? Regardless of your financial status or health care plan, everyone at 65 must go on Medicare? How's that working out for everyone?
We need less regulation, not more, of our healthcare system. But because of Medicare and Medicaid, I'm not sure the system can be "unfucked."
It has been great for me. Are you on it? If not, maybe stop the Medicare rants until you are.
only people that shit on medicaid are the hospitals who already make a fuck killing.
Don't try to tell me that Primary Cares can't make money off medicaid and medicare...two docs in my town who have the biggest fucking house in the tri parish area bigger than Gary Chouest only take medicaid and medicare.
So much so those on medicaid get better medical care than private payers get because there is an inventive to run more test and get paid more per visit.
The fundamental problem is our third party payment system. Which means there's no price competition at point of service.
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That's not the [root] problem. Healthcare insurance is supposed to be INSURANCE that utilizes a pool of people who pay a premium for an infrequently used (but very costly) service that would typically be too expensive for an individual in the pool. The pool therefore spreads the cost across a larger number of people to make the service affordable. The root problem is healthcare insurance has by and large ceased to function as insurance and instead functions more like a gym membership. This of course is a simplification since the problems with the US Healthcare system are not singular in nature, but eliminating insurance as a payment method for routine medical care and only having healthcare insurance for catastrophic care would go a long way to righting healthcare cost.
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