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Old 09-29-2010, 11:29 AM
 
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Is there anything else they could have done instead?

Reform seeks to have employees shoulder more of health care costs | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 22.09.2010
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Old 09-29-2010, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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You mean it's no longer "free"?
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Old 09-29-2010, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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You mean it's no longer "free"?
Apparently you are not well informed about the German health care system.
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Old 09-29-2010, 03:21 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Apparently you are not well informed about the German health care system.
Only as informed as the friends I have living there are.
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Old 09-29-2010, 03:30 PM
 
Location: Ohio
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Only as informed as the friends I have living there are.
They must not be very informed because I had to pay DM 10 to get my hand stitched up.
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Old 09-29-2010, 03:32 PM
 
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You mean it's no longer "free"?
If you think ANY govt program is expensive now, just wait until it is "free".
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Old 09-29-2010, 03:36 PM
 
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What people mean by free is to shift the bureden on someone else ;as we saw in the healthcare deabte here.That was the biggest problem withi the democratsic deabted bill;evryone wanted to avoid the burden when it came up.
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Old 09-29-2010, 04:06 PM
 
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What people mean by free is to shift the bureden on someone else ;as we saw in the healthcare deabte here.That was the biggest problem withi the democratsic deabted bill;evryone wanted to avoid the burden when it came up.
No single payer program was ever proposed.
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Old 09-29-2010, 06:03 PM
 
Location: Imaginary Figment
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They still are oblivious to what was even passed. It's amazing isn't it? They argued against something that wasn't before hand, and now complain about something that never was after the fact.
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Old 09-29-2010, 06:32 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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They must not be very informed because I had to pay DM 10 to get my hand stitched up.
You had to pay a lot more than that.
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