Posted on 07/19/2017 8:41:57 AM PDT by Incorrigible
Shit like this is why Trump won.
Obamacare has been very successful in performing its primary purpose. Destroy the US healthcare system, replace it with the worst bureaucratic mess of a system you can devise, and soon the sheeple will beg for socialized medicine.
Posted before I read the comments.
GMTA. See post #15.
If it’s true that poll respondents are too STOOOOPID to know that “Single Payer” and “Medicare for All” are the same thing, we’re doomed.
Bkmk
College friend of mine is an attorney in France. About age 60 as am I. About a year ago she fell and broke her ankle. It was misdiagnosed/mistreated. Now she’s confined to a wheelchair and may never walk again. Having to work from home. The most they’ll give her for the pain is Tylenol. She’s having to smuggle Advil. After years of her telling me how much better things are in France - the food, the wine, the food, the wine, the food, the wine - I’m so biting my tongue every time I talk to her.
Why bite your tongue? You can make your point delicately and kindly but very firmly.
Why does the GOP let the Dems use these phony numbers? There are only 10 million on Obamacare and many of those previously had private insurance. So the idea that Obamacare reduced the number of uninsured by 20 million is a lie.
So.... telling someone who has is permanently confined to a wheelchair..”see, told you I’m right....” is the right way to go?
Yeah, that’s how to win friends and influence people.
According to the World Bank, out-of-pocket expenditures are 85 percent of private health care in Japan.
But, in the U.S., the comparable figure is 21 percent.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.OOPC.ZS
So which of these rich countries has more “health insurance?”
In Japan, most people pay out-of-pocket for ordinary expenses. Insurance is there for extraordinary expenses. This keeps costs down, and strengthens the role of the consumer in the marketplace.
In the US, people think of health insurance as free or provided their employer or by the government. So, they want health insurance to cover everything. Mental illness, check. Vision care Eye care. Just wait.
The US will never, ever, ever have enough money free health care. Health care will be rationed by waiting lines. People will quietly die while waiting in line. This is the way it is in the U.K.
Exactly!
How the hell is a country that’s nearly $20 trillion in debt considered to be a “rich” country?
This unsupported assertion is utter nonsense!
There is no credible evidence that universal coverage works.
There is no credible evidence that single payer works.
High costs are the direct result of government interference in the health care industry.
Personal responsibility in a free enterprise environment results in low health care costs for all.
I read other of my female classmates’ fb pages and most of them seem liberal, hillary supporter types. about half seem divorced. After one painful experience with my old college GF earlier this year, i try to avoid bringing up politics with these women since apparently they have little tolerance for any other than a radical liberal point of view. I consider myself an old school feminist supporter, which when i was young made me a bit radical and subversive, but now it is nowhere near enough, and now i am feeling a need to recalibrate radically, along the lines of Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (a representative meritocracy).
Let's also throw two more factors into the mix.
1. Those post-WWII "socially liberal" European governments didn't have to maintain their own military-industrial complex, so they were free to spend lavishly on social programs.
2. In the United States, we relied heavily on "faith-based charities" to provide much of the safety net for the least-advantaged Americans. Starting in the 1980s, the push for "separation of church and state" lead to a radical push of religion "out of the public square." This was most visible as banning prayer in schools, but it was also attacking so-called "soup kitchens" provided by religious groups as forced proselytizing of the poor. This was extended to church-run hospitals and clinics, too.
Driving faith-based charities away pushed ALL of the costs of caring for the poor onto the government, where once it was provided by private-sector philanthropy.
-PJ
It's funny, but that 30 million uninsured number was exactly what the democrats were touting when they approved Obamacare. Net effect, apparently, was zero.
Hmm. Well I was simply stating fact. Sorry if a few snowflakes got their underpants in a wad.
What is really self-righteous is listening to a clearly gluttonous person sing the praises of the war on drugs, maybe while slurping on a 24oz diet drink.
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