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I think people forgot that there are no free lunches. |
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That said, I concede that unless you're willing to PAY FOR IT, there needs to be some tough love for this country. If you want to go to war, you're kid should be the first one standing in line for a draft, and there should be a war tax. That way everyone feels it, and pays attention to what the government is doing. If the entire country had skin in the game, there would not be any 10+ year wars, and 800+ military bases. If every time you had to build a new prison, there had to be a new tax to pay for it, you would see a closer eye paid to the department of corrections in this country. You would stop warehousing our citizens for nonsense. That is just the tip of the iceberg, but I digress. :2 cents: |
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If everybody had to pay fairly for everything the govt. does...the govt. would be what it is supposed to be: small and unobtrusive in people's lives. Instead, I feel like I work for the govt. And they have so many laws and rules that I can't get out of the bed first thing in the morning without accidentally breaking some kind of stupid law. |
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I don't understand how anyone can miss the common sense detail that if there are more hands (insurance company) in the cookie jar the costs can only go up... Can anyone spell out how exactly requiring health insurance will reduce costs? |
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Make it result based and then publish a list f potential targets that banks or hedge funds could bid on... It would serve a nice warning to whoever breaks international laws and causes issues (for our oil imports ) |
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Accounts receivable are a drain on the current system. |
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if healthcare costs $1 trillion for the US now, it will cost $1 trillion (or more) after people buy insurance, costs will not magically go down, it's not possible for combined costs to go down because there is a 3rd party (insurance companies) that will take bigger chunk of the $1 trillion industry... so the costs have to go up... the only detail that is changing is who will pay for these healthcare costs.. |
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will insurance companies make more $$ now? They have more customers, so it's 100% clear that they will have same or higher profits... no? now ponder this: where will these profits come from? who will pay for it? |
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When we have full data aggregation and can drill down through the case histories of 300 million people along with genetic testing we will be able to determine markers for illnesses and medications based on other successfully treated patients with nearly or exactly the same patient history as your own. The future of medicine on a cost basis and a success basis is dependent on moving away from general practice toward a model of personal care that is based on your specific genetics, your specific case history, and tremendously more effective efficiency. It will be cheaper and far better than any for profit insurance based system will ever be at the basic care level. :2 cents: |
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Obama's demand that the top bracket go up on those earning over 250k raises 50 billion dollars - enough to fund the government for about a week. It's not a tax problem but a spending problem. Some how Obama has managed to convince people that if only they squeeze and tax the 'rich' (who already pay half the taxes) then everything will be fine. This is a lie of course and Obama is just a political hack for a political party that seeks to hold power. People will always vote to raise someone elses taxes. Class warfare works. America has become a Mobocracy. The takers will keep voting to take. But the politicians like Obama can only lie for so long until the true cost of their big government becomes apparent. That comes either through everyone paying higher taxes and the true cost of big government being felt and seen by the average person. Obamacare was another big lie and written by the health insurance companies who are now cashing in and raising premiums. Obamacare is over 2000 pages and most of it has to be figured out how to be implemented by HHS. There will be thousands of new rules and regulations weighing down employers. Most of it comes into effect in 2013 and 2014 is when the waivers for Obama's corporate donors expire and the true horrors of this legislation will be seen for what it is. 30 State governors have already rightly refused to setup state based exchanges and want nothing to do with it. This will be a complete disaster just wait and see. Unfortunately the economy and the average person will suffer greatly. |
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take your country for example. The news stories on how "improved" your wait times are should embarrass you into silence on this subject. |
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Single payer healthcare is the new battle cry for those that don't want to pay their own way now that the obamacare battle cry has come and failed. Want to cure healthcare, stop giving it away for free. Can't pay, die.
Then perhaps people would stop buying iphones and "designer sneakers" and start buying healthcare. We are weak as a country because we've wasted tens if not hundreds of trillions on society's bottom. |
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