Posted on 08/10/2015 4:43:51 AM PDT by rootin tootin
Most of Donald Trump’s public statements include the rote declaration that Obamacare is a disaster. This is true, of course, but it doesn’t tell us anything new. It’s only when he starts elaborating on his objections that one gets a sense of what he believes, and he doesn’t talk like a friend of the free market. During last week’s Republican debate, for example, he was asked about his past praise of single-payer health care and replied, “As far as single-payer, it works in Canada, works incredibly well in Scotland.” This answer was both antithetical to free-market thinking and profoundly ignorant.
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Yes, 15 years ago was such a different era. LOL
Some "conservative."
so by your standard, we need another republican who’s going to make socialized medicine a done deal. Briliant. Maybe you should change your screen name, or keep thoughts that ridiculous to yourself.
i mean, just effen brilliant....
there is no way to type slowly enough....
yeah well, you asked about Perot’s positions, I posted a link, no response from you.
We would have been much better off with Perot. But again, Americans fell for the “party” line.
Harold! Harold! Harold!
lol
“Cut the funding”
You mean a bill that requires the President’s signature or 2/3 of each House to override a veto?
Is that what you mean?
Republicans all by themselves destroyed the GOP. If trump can expose the corrupt rottenness of the GOP, more power to him.
“Universal single payer health care would destroy...”
I think, and have thought for many years, that Medicare alone can and will do that.
Donald Trump’s plan for healthcare is to let everyone buy personal policies across state lines. Just like many other Republican aspirants to the Whitehut. He wants to provide a safety net to those who cannot afford insurance. So do I. I don’t want people dying the gutter like they do in third world countries. By the way we don’t let people die in the streets now. If you need medical help the county hospital cannot refuse to treat you.
‘Single-payer’ works due to American consumer subsidization via our obscene pharmaceutical and medical device costs. Allow for the FULL re-importation into the US of those items at current world prices and watch our health-care costs fall dramatically and the implosion of most ‘single-payer’ and ‘national health-care schemes’ either through increased costs or increased rationing . As for free market health care, NO candidate is talking about the elephant in the room. The fact that the medical and pharmaceutical industries enjoy a privilege no other industry in the US does. That would be freedom from prosecution of ANY anti-trust rule or regulation within the US. Subject those industries to those and our health-care costs would plummet. Possibly by up to 75%.(See Oklahoma Surgical Centers as an example——http://www.surgerycenterok.com/)
In the end it’s about winning electoral votes
In the end it’s about winning electoral votes
In the end, it’s about saving our country
They could have voted not to fund it. All funding originates in the house. They have to fund it every year. They could have not funded it last year, but they passed the Cromnibus instead to fully fund everything, including Obamacare and the illegal Obama amnesty, for this fiscal year. McConnell just advertised they will be funding everything again by guaranteeing that there won’t be a shut down. The only way he can guarantee that is to get with Boner and give Obama everything he asks for.
Can’t do that without winning the magic # of electoral votes
AS is having identity issues, of late. Not reading their site like I used to (a year ago).
95% of Democrats are for socialized medicine.
75% of Republicans support scummy crony-capitalist deals.
We ain’t getting Free Market Health Care in my lifetime.
Trump: “As far as single-payer, it works in Canada ...”
Unless things in Canada have changed in the past year, the taxpayer-funded component of the “Canadian system” controls costs in part by not funding universal coverage of prescription drugs (out of hospital) and mental health treatment. Of course, there is also rationing by waiting times which, as you say, leads many Canadians to come to the US for certain procedures.
I put the term “Canadian system” in quotes because in Canada health care is really run by the separate provinces, with some oversight and limited financial assistance from Ottawa. Waiting times, costs, coverage, and other indicators of “accessibility” vary across provinces, at least according to my Canadian friends.
ok, so you believe already that WE THE PEOPLE are done and all hail the Cartel?
Nobody’s system promises to pay for all useful things, for all people, all the time without rationing, and using other people’s money.
Except ours.
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