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Old 03-24-2017, 10:32 PM
 
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Premiums for individual plans in Minnesota will increase on average by 50 percent to 67 percent next year. Several insurers have pulled out of the state's Obamacare marketplace since opening three years ago, when Minnesota boasted some of the lowest premiums in the country...

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I keep hearing people saying that Obamacare needs to be fixed. But I haven't heard much about how to actually fix it. So how should it be fixed?
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Old 03-24-2017, 10:40 PM
 
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Medicare for everyone.
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Old 03-24-2017, 10:41 PM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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It can't be fixed. Prices will continue to go up.
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Old 03-24-2017, 10:49 PM
 
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Medicare for everyone.
Only if we can avoid long wait times for surgeries and avoid a system that will seem to never have enough money to fund it.

Virtually all hospitals now in deficit - BBC News
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Old 03-24-2017, 11:06 PM
 
Location: Left coast
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Medicare for everyone.
Yup- single payor.
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Old 03-24-2017, 11:07 PM
 
Location: Left coast
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Only if we can avoid long wait times for surgeries and avoid a system that will seem to never have enough money to fund it.

Virtually all hospitals now in deficit - BBC News
Healthcare just needs to have the same priority as our nation's defense budget....
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Old 03-24-2017, 11:09 PM
 
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Healthcare just needs to have the same priority as our nation's defense budget....
Heaven forbid we give up some phallus shaped bombs and bullets to fund stuff we all benefit from.
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Old 03-24-2017, 11:12 PM
 
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Medicare for everyone.
Exactly, that's the only way
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Old 03-24-2017, 11:37 PM
 
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Does anyone see the mandate as a problem? If so in what way?
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Old 03-24-2017, 11:42 PM
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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I keep hearing people saying that Obamacare needs to be fixed. But I haven't heard much about how to actually fix it. So how should it be fixed?
First thing you do is implement it fully. You ask why this would help, it is because it would actually take most sick people out of the pool, and put them on medicare or medicaid, that lone would start to bring cost down.
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