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Old 06-02-2015, 10:55 AM
 
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I've been arguing for years that the poor in America don't have adequate access to health care, but now that a very wealthy man got a surgery here I guess all my concerns are proven false! What a load off!
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:07 AM
 
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I don't think anyone argues that we have the worst medical care. In fact we say we say we have the best in the world. The left argument is about access. People lack coverage. The best hospitals and best doctors are expensive.

Healthcare is not a right in this country. The only right you do have is to make more money to afford it.
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:13 AM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I was under the impression that America had the worst (or close to the worst) medical system in the world....even behind Cuba and Ethiopia

He broke his leg in France (the leftie Utopia for all that's awesome), went to Switzerland for initial treatment (another leftie Utopia), yet he chose to come to America of all places for surgery!

Can someone please explain this?
because he's an American politician and he knows the consequences. He knows that if he doesn't have it here, people like you will start to squeal about how un-American he is.
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:14 AM
 
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Maybe he was one of the few that was actually able to keep his health care plan.
Actually, he was. They changed this stuff for the serfs, not the lords.
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Old 06-02-2015, 09:56 PM
 
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Yea, but not everyone who has large hospital bills goes bankrupt. It's a very small percentage.
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Old 06-02-2015, 09:58 PM
 
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Yeah, the righties who claim to believe in LESS spending and LESS government yet consistently give us MORE spending and MORE government that suits their agenda are just true to their beliefs, eh?

Perhaps you should be honest and just start a thread titled "I hate lefties, NO reason needed".
I have plenty of reasons.
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Old 06-02-2015, 09:58 PM
 
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Kind of hard to do followups in France don't you think OP; just as one consideration?
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Old 06-02-2015, 10:00 PM
 
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I don't think anyone argues that we have the worst medical care. In fact we say we say we have the best in the world. The left argument is about access. People lack coverage. The best hospitals and best doctors are expensive.

Healthcare is not a right in this country. The only right you do have is to make more money to afford it.
Yea....every day I pass people dying in the streets because they can't afford healthcare.

You have a right to provide for yourself.....by the way, didn't obamacare fix everything?
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Old 06-02-2015, 10:01 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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I was under the impression that America had the worst (or close to the worst) medical system in the world....even behind Cuba and Ethiopia

He broke his leg in France (the leftie Utopia for all that's awesome), went to Switzerland for initial treatment (another leftie Utopia), yet he chose to come to America of all places for surgery!

Can someone please explain this?

Obamacare is greatly improving medical care in this country as your post shows.
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Old 06-02-2015, 10:49 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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As they say, the US has the best doctors in the world if you can afford it. The key part being only if you can afford it.
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