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To: lgjhn23
To be fair, let's acknowledge that most Americans want single-payer health care. They just don't know it.

Oh, they'll never come out and say they do, and they may be sincere when they say they hate it. It's just that there's no way a health care system can meet the impossible wishes of most Americans unless it's a single-payer system run by a government with totalitarian control.

Most Americans want a health care system that does the following:

1. It covers everyone.
2. It covers everything.
3. It doesn't cost very much.

In other words, we want something that simply doesn't exist ... which means it naturally falls on a government with an unlimited capacity to print money to give it to us.

16 posted on 07/27/2017 5:57:10 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child
The only correction I believe would be the following:

3. It doesn't cost very much anything at all.

I'm surprised at how many people, even some on the right, who somehow believe that the best healthcare in the world should somehow be a "right" they do not have a pay for.

39 posted on 07/27/2017 6:48:32 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Alberta's Child

No, let’s not acknowledge that because ITS NOT TRUE.

Most Americans would like to not work and get 364 days of vacation a year and own a mansion and be free from responsibilities. Let’s be fair and acknowledge that too.

Oh and ponies... all girls want ponies and let’s acknowledge that.

The fact of the matter is that medicine is a limited resource and no amount of money thrown at the problem will ever solve it. Even in countries with so called “single payer” and “universal health care” the government rations out medicine and decides who gets it and who doesn’t and, of course, the political ruling class always gets it and gets priority at it and then the politically favored aclasses and only THEN will Joe citizen get a crack at it.

The political ruling class sells you this lie by telling you you’ll die if you don’t get let them control you this way.

That’s abominable and you know it.

Get the government out of healthcare - period.


44 posted on 07/27/2017 7:04:25 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Alberta's Child

Printing money makes worthless. Then you become Zimbabwe or Venezuela.


45 posted on 07/27/2017 7:06:34 AM PDT by Myrddin
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