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this isn't about healthcare. It's about healthcare FUNDING.

Posted on: February 5, 2019 at 10:07:47 CT

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Money, who pays.

This isn't about improving the care of health.

It's about deciding, centrally, how one set of citizens should fund the payment of health care services for another set of citizens.

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If you're in insurance, might want to start looking for a - Ragnar Danneskjold MU

- 2/5 09:24:51

the govt will have to contract out the admin - tigerinhogtown STL - 2/5 19:57:23

they aren't the main provider for the sick - FootballRefugee MU

- 2/5 10:51:22

The US health care/health insurance industry is a stone's - ummmm MU - 2/5 10:26:38

If you take private insurance "off the market" - Ragnar Danneskjold MU

- 2/5 09:55:32

Are those folks unemployable? - TheShoe STL - 2/5 09:57:33

Would nationalizing health insurance companies & collecting - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 2/5 10:42:54

haha like I said might want to start looking for another - Ragnar Danneskjold MU

- 2/5 09:59:06

is that why they're uninsured? (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 2/5 09:58:22

That's either disingenuous or willfully stupid - TheShoe STL - 2/5 09:51:16

Yeah, for the very rich. (nm) - ummmm MU - 2/5 10:27:08

here - dangertim MU

- 2/5 10:17:10

What am I looking for here?(nm) - TheShoe STL - 2/5 10:23:46

a reason for private insurance where those - dangertim MU

- 2/5 10:26:54

As I understand it - TheShoe STL - 2/5 10:32:18

My son was stricken with an immune system disease that - TigerMatt STL - 2/5 10:44:03

My sister had treatment in Switzerland - TheShoe STL - 2/5 10:47:25

Yes because all conditions are like cancer.🙄 Here is my - TigerMatt STL - 2/5 10:58:19

your kid should not have access to better care, you're just - 90Tiger MU - 2/5 10:46:26

Yes. Greater good when lifetime of dialysis, kidney - TigerMatt STL - 2/5 10:48:29

you are correct. that's how it's done in Europe - dangertim MU

- 2/5 10:35:33

I think it's too early to get too excited about of this - TheShoe STL - 2/5 10:39:31

But why if the socialised care is so good? - tcat KC - 2/5 09:55:56

Because you will always have people who want to be special - TheShoe STL - 2/5 09:58:32

hilarious - that's millions of people right now whom you're - 90Tiger MU - 2/5 10:05:48

Here's what I know about it, just as - GA Tiger MU - 2/5 09:33:53

lol what? (nm) - pickle MU

- 2/5 09:56:48

That is false - TheShoe STL - 2/5 09:55:25

We don't need healthcare. It is a want. - tcat KC - 2/5 09:58:22

this isn't about healthcare. It's about healthcare FUNDING. - 90Tiger MU - 2/5 10:07:47

If I have to pay for it, there better be weight restrictions - TigerMatt STL - 2/5 10:08:52

Requirements not feasible, if only because - GA Tiger MU - 2/5 11:30:39

You already pay for it(nm) - TheShoe STL - 2/5 10:09:44

Not the tens of millions of uninsured you want added, which - TigerMatt STL - 2/5 10:19:08

nope, it's a god-given right and i'm obligated to ensure it - 90Tiger MU - 2/5 10:22:13

Why do you think the cost of healthcare is so high? - TheShoe STL - 2/5 10:21:28

Yeah, there're govt forces at play which unfairly pool - ummmm MU - 2/5 10:35:40

Who forces ERs to take anyone who shows up? Gov't. - TigerMatt STL - 2/5 10:24:05

They are only required to treat two things - TheShoe STL - 2/5 10:27:38

So, tell us how all the uninsured are driving up my - 90Tiger MU - 2/5 10:39:07

That only applies to private hospitals. Public hospitals - TigerMatt STL - 2/5 10:36:05

oh, that incidental fact? lol (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 2/5 10:24:23

Do you have children? - TheShoe STL - 2/5 09:59:14

What do my kids have to do with this? - tcat KC - 2/5 10:15:33

Are you an anti-vaxxer?(nm) - TheShoe STL - 2/5 10:17:20

no i am not. - tcat KC - 2/5 11:16:55