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Thats exactly why it does work because its between me and them. I pay premiums you pay hospital bills. If you are afraid of some punk in claims that your problem. I would rather deal with that punk between me and my DR than some idiot form the govt with a book of laws.
Clearly it doesn't work.
America spends over 18 % of GDP on healthcare. 8200 $ per citizen per year. The other deveoped nations average half that per person and generally get better results. Along with no medical bankrupcies, no insurance death panels, more freedom, etc.
In fact only two countries in the world spend more per person, on 100 % coverage univeral health care, than America spends on 27 % coverage government health care.
Obama never said that his “change” would be a good thing. I wonder how hard Obama laughed at all of those Obama-bots, singing “yes we can, yes we can.”
conservatives continue to drift further and further away from reality.
I would rather face a government "death panel" than a private sector "death panel". the former is likely to be indifferent and the later well paid to keep me from spending "their" money. I prefer the government spend money on providing health care for me and my friends than on selecting the Dictator Du Jure in some misbegotten Muslim land blessed with oil and cursed by fanatic religion and Western investment.
And that's certainly not the government's call anyway. It's people who are causing that. By not having living wills. And by loved ones of the individual refusing to let the patient go when it is there time.
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Govt regulation prevents hospitals from making decisions in these circumstances. Instead we have distressed and non-thinking family members making decision.
I would rather face a government "death panel" than a private sector "death panel". the former is likely to be indifferent and the later well paid to keep me from spending "their" money. I prefer the government spend money on providing health care for me and my friends than on selecting the Dictator Du Jure in some misbegotten Muslim land blessed with oil and cursed by fanatic religion and Western investment.
No kidding. We even had a homeless man who was scheduled for a kidney transplant. He would have gotten it, save for one thing. He refused to live indoors. We can't give a transplant with the resultant immunosuppressant drugs if you're going to live on the street. They even set up an apartment for him, but he didn't want it.
You think your insurance companies would cover someone like that? Not a chance. Here, EVERYONE is covered. It doesn't matter if you're a prince or pauper.
And that's certainly not the government's call anyway. It's people who are causing that. By not having living wills. And by loved ones of the individual refusing to let the patient go when it is there time.
Now, now, you and Chris are upsetting the righties. We can't have calm, rational facts disproving their mouth-frothing. Besides, it's so much fun when they explode over stuff that they just made up!
Can I get a job on the death panel? I will implement a policy that we will have to announce coverage decisions with as much enthusiasm as Trump does on the Apprentice:
"Your coverage is DENIED. Pack up your stuff and go die."
Oh wait... I don't have to wait two years. I can probably have the same job experience working at a private health insurer today....
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