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Old 02-12-2021, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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Biden will lead us into the dismal healthcare model now in the UK.
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The number of patients waiting more than a year for routine operations on the NHS has hit its highest level since April 2008, official figures show.

Almost 225,000 people went at least 52 weeks without treatment in December, according to NHS England.

The shocking figures come after health bosses yesterday warned waits of more than a year for treatment will become a staple moving forward ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Gis89KZTyxEi9k
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Old 02-12-2021, 09:18 AM
 
Location: West Coast U.S.A.
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Biden will lead us into the dismal healthcare model now in the UK.
As opposed to that big, beautiful new healthcare plan Trump brought us on his first day in office, right?
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Old 02-12-2021, 09:22 AM
 
Location: NYC
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As opposed to that big, beautiful new healthcare plan Trump brought us on his first day in office, right?
Trumpcare - survival of the fittest by mishandling a pandemic which largely targets the elderly and the weak. I think it served its purpose.
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Old 02-12-2021, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Spring Hill, FL
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Biden will lead us into the dismal healthcare model now in the UK.
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The number of patients waiting more than a year for routine operations on the NHS has hit its highest level since April 2008, official figures show.

Almost 225,000 people went at least 52 weeks without treatment in December, according to NHS England.

The shocking figures come after health bosses yesterday warned waits of more than a year for treatment will become a staple moving forward ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Gis89KZTyxEi9k
I wish Biden would lead us to that.

Having lived in both systems, overwhelmingly I prefer the one where I'm not mailed twenty different bills and in danger of becoming bankrupt.

Of course, under current restrictions and COVID-19, of course routine operations would be put on hold. The real question is, what was happening in 2008 that caused the same backlog?
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Old 02-12-2021, 09:23 AM
 
Location: West Coast U.S.A.
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Biden will lead us into the dismal healthcare model now in the UK.
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The number of patients waiting more than a year for routine operations on the NHS has hit its highest level since April 2008, official figures show.

Almost 225,000 people went at least 52 weeks without treatment in December, according to NHS England.

The shocking figures come after health bosses yesterday warned[b] waits of more than a year for treatment will become a staple moving forward
We do things better here in America where some people just plain don't get that routine operation, or they have to declare bankruptcy because of medical bills, and where health insurance cost twice as much as it does in other countries.

Yeah, we're the country other countries are trying to emulate. (not really.)
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Old 02-12-2021, 11:30 AM
 
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We definitely need a universal healthcare system in the USA.
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Old 02-12-2021, 11:40 AM
 
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I wonder if 58% of their bankrupcies are also from medical bills like here in the US:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/medi...ass-2019-02-14

Angry-Koala - can't rep you again :-)
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Old 02-12-2021, 11:44 AM
 
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Biden will lead us into the dismal healthcare model now in the UK.
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The number of patients waiting more than a year for routine operations on the NHS has hit its highest level since April 2008, official figures show.

Almost 225,000 people went at least 52 weeks without treatment in December, according to NHS England.

The shocking figures come after health bosses yesterday warned waits of more than a year for treatment will become a staple moving forward ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Gis89KZTyxEi9k
So; even if your meme included the disclaimer of Covid treatment requirements being given bed priority over elective and less serious surgeries; you're seriously suggesting that Biden leading towards Universal healthcare and away from this being a bad thing?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/near...-the-cost.html

That one said 1/4 while this one says 1/3-

https://www.axios.com/health-care-co...2eb242201.html

and:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-medical-costs

Methinks you should be so lucky!
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Old 02-12-2021, 11:49 AM
 
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Biden will lead us into the dismal healthcare model now in the UK.
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The number of patients waiting more than a year for routine operations on the NHS has hit its highest level since April 2008, official figures show.

Almost 225,000 people went at least 52 weeks without treatment in December, according to NHS England.

The shocking figures come after health bosses yesterday warned waits of more than a year for treatment will become a staple moving forward ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Gis89KZTyxEi9k
How do you know what will happen?

Do you have some special inside source of info? I don't think so. You have no idea if Biden will follow the UK example.
He probably won't, as the UK hasn't been any better at handling the Carona virus than the USA, and has been worse in some respects.

Common sense says if Joe is looking for another country to copy, which is doubtful to begin with, that country would be New Zeland. Or S. Korea. Or Japan. Or Estonia. Or Norway. All have dodged the worst of the pandemic.

He won't use any of them for examples. Joe found Trump had done little and had made a mess out of that bit, so he's had to turn his crew toward devising big American solutions for a big American problem.

Trump could have done that, but it was much more important for him to go golfing instead.
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Old 02-12-2021, 12:04 PM
 
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Trumpcare - survival of the fittest by mishandling a pandemic which largely targets the elderly and the weak. I think it served its purpose.
How else would you want it if it’s not survival of the fittest?

Any other way would cause a decline in the survival of the human species.
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