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Old 03-07-2017, 01:34 PM
 
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Easy!

Medicare for all. Cut out the middle man! Do we really need health insurance companies to make billions in profit? Why not add a pool of healthy young people to the Medicare Plan?

Why not negotiate a price cut from the Pharma industry? Why do they charge so much more in the US than in Canada?

Sure, keep the private health plans. But, make the private plans compete with the public option.
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Old 03-07-2017, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Native of Any Beach/FL
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Easy!

Medicare for all. Cut out the middle man! Do we really need health insurance companies to make billions in profit? Why not add a pool of healthy young people to the Medicare Plan?

Why not negotiate a price cut from the Pharma industry? Why do they charge so much more in the US than in Canada?

Sure, keep the private health plans. But, make the private plans compete with the public option.



no- no- no---the insurance companies need to make money!!!! Why all can't use the govt. insurance plan-or military ins?? hmm they do NOT want an easy fix--- follow the money.......
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Old 03-07-2017, 01:42 PM
 
Location: On a Long Island in NY
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Easy!

Medicare for all. Cut out the middle man! Do we really need health insurance companies to make billions in profit? Why not add a pool of healthy young people to the Medicare Plan?

Why not negotiate a price cut from the Pharma industry? Why do they charge so much more in the US than in Canada?

Sure, keep the private health plans. But, make the private plans compete with the public option.


Of course, this would put all the insurance companies out of business because nobody is going to want to pay BCBS $2,000/month for a plan. God riddance though, they deserve it.
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Old 03-07-2017, 01:42 PM
 
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Easy!

Medicare for all. Cut out the middle man! Do we really need health insurance companies to make billions in profit? Why not add a pool of healthy young people to the Medicare Plan?

Why not negotiate a price cut from the Pharma industry? Why do they charge so much more in the US than in Canada?

Sure, keep the private health plans. But, make the private plans compete with the public option.
Impose the communist option where government ownes you, what can go wrong? Oh yeah, everything.
Welfare insurance for all? No thank you.
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Old 03-07-2017, 01:43 PM
 
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no- no- no---the insurance companies need to make money!!!! Why all can't use the govt. insurance plan-or military ins?? hmm they do NOT want an easy fix--- follow the money.......
The health insurance companies provide NO HEALTH CARE and yet make much more money than the doctors and nurses by simply doing paper work. BTW, the paper work is modeled after MEDICARE.

The Mayo Clinic provides a medical plan and they cult out the middle man. Better care at a cheaper cost.
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Old 03-07-2017, 01:48 PM
 
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no- no- no---the insurance companies need to make money!!!! Why all can't use the govt. insurance plan-or military ins?? hmm they do NOT want an easy fix--- follow the money.......
Right, give the government with the $10,000 toilets, $5,000 hammers that has been killing off our Vets our healthcare, and let them do to medical what they've done to our national debt.

Insanity, total insanity. Outside of a great military, what if anything has government ever done right?
We pay the most for education, and are like #39 in the world.

Goal # 2 should be to shrink way down the government and its influence in our lives.
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Old 03-07-2017, 01:50 PM
 
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Of course, this would put all the insurance companies out of business because nobody is going to want to pay BCBS $2,000/month for a plan. God riddance though, they deserve it.
Or they can stay in business by selling Cadillac high end plans to those that want that.
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Old 03-07-2017, 01:53 PM
 
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Right, give the government with the $10,000 toilets, $5,000 hammers that has been killing off our Vets our healthcare, and let them do to medical what they've done to our national debt.

Insanity, total insanity. Outside of a great military, what if anything has government ever done right?
We pay the most for education, and are like #39 in the world.

Goal # 2 should be to shrink way down the government and its influence in our lives.
No, no. The government will provide ZERO health care. The health care will be provided by the private sector just as they do now. Do you think the docs and hospitals that treat Medicare patients are government employees? No! They are the same docs that treat everyone else.

I am a conservative and love Trump, but when it comes to health care there is no alternative.
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Old 03-07-2017, 01:54 PM
 
Location: OH->FL->NJ
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Impose the communist option where government ownes you, what can go wrong? Oh yeah, everything.
Welfare insurance for all? No thank you.
Have you opted out of receiving Medicare yet? If yes. Mucho kudos for consistency.
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Old 03-07-2017, 02:01 PM
 
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Impose the communist option where government ownes you, what can go wrong? Oh yeah, everything.
Welfare insurance for all? No thank you.
No, you do not get it. A public option simply allows people to buy a health care plan from the government. In this manner the private sector has to compete.

I am assuming that when you reach 65 you will NOT BUY Medicare and continue to buy private insurance. Is that correct?
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