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My Hospital Stay Showed We're Careening toward Socialized Medicine
American Thinker.com ^ | August 12, 2021 | E. Jeffrey Ludwig

Posted on 08/12/2021 3:33:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/12/2021 3:33:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Unfortunately, I had presumed as much ever since 2010, when Obama and the Ice Queen, Madame Sebelius pushed this systematic change in Health Coverage.
Enough of congress was convinced that they had to pass it to see what was in it.


2 posted on 08/12/2021 3:39:41 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Kaslin

And in other news, water is wet.


3 posted on 08/12/2021 3:43:05 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Be kind to each other, unless the other guy is a dumbass.)
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To: Kaslin

I have heard that advantage plans can be horrible if you get really sick. However, if you are healthy they are awesome because you are refunded the 144 dollars every month and get to spend 80 bucks a month of junk from a catalogue. I looked at one and couldn’t find a thing I’d buy. I’m not Medicare eligible. I was looking at my neighbors.


4 posted on 08/12/2021 3:45:25 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: Kaslin

and covid is just such a handy little bug that kills off the old, unhealthy and obese making socialized health care all that much more doable.


5 posted on 08/12/2021 3:46:59 AM PDT by Pollard
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Medicare for all...what a *WONDERFUL* way to cause the utter collapse of a plan upon which so many older folks depend.
6 posted on 08/12/2021 3:47:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Socialized medicine is also why european hospitals had a much harder time w/covid.


7 posted on 08/12/2021 3:50:33 AM PDT by fruser1
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This dude is a retired school teacher on Medicare … and he’s worried that we are “careening toward socialized medicine?” LMAO.


8 posted on 08/12/2021 4:00:43 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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That got ramped up years ago thanks to Bush’s Porkulus and the EMR/EHR regs.

Most docs who didn’t retire or quit got eaten by health systems.

A de facto NHS.


9 posted on 08/12/2021 4:03:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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Meanwhile, modified limited hangout time...

COVID BOMBSHELL Covid patient zero may have been infected by bat while working in Wuhan leak lab, admits WHO chief

10 posted on 08/12/2021 4:04:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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11 posted on 08/12/2021 4:14:29 AM PDT by knarf (qa)
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To: Alberta's Child

So, a retired high school teacher from NYC fears socialism in healthcare, because it would be negative for himself.

Oh, the irony.

All governmental unit retirees should be on gov-only healthcare.


12 posted on 08/12/2021 4:45:21 AM PDT by polymuser (BLA socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Medicare for all...what a *WONDERFUL* way to cause the utter collapse of a plan upon which so many older folks depend.”

A great way to push old Boomers into the grave! They vote R tooooo much.


13 posted on 08/12/2021 4:47:06 AM PDT by polymuser (BLA socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Alberta's Child

“This dude is a retired school teacher on Medicare … and he’s worried that we are “careening toward socialized medicine?” LMAO.”

:-)

Similar to what I thought reading this post... “careening toward socialized medicine”. Ha! We are slap-dab in the middle of socialism. Period.

Thank you for an early morning belly laugh.


14 posted on 08/12/2021 4:48:20 AM PDT by Wiz-Nerd
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One of the side benefits of the 19 month long hysteria over covid has been the growing control over the practice of medicine by the politicians.

Government says “Trust me, I’ll protect you!” and if you trust it you’ll be betrayed like you could never imagine.


15 posted on 08/12/2021 4:48:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: lee martell

Both the GOP and Dems want employee health care off employers books. China Mitch campaigned on Obamacare repeal for 5 years, Murkowski voted against it and now he is fully supporting her reelection. Obamacare is the law of the land and the GOP is just fine with that.


16 posted on 08/12/2021 4:51:23 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Kaslin
One need only look at the handwriting on the wall.

Have been for a long time now...

17 posted on 08/12/2021 5:06:37 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: I want the USA back

Never believe anyone that tells you to trust them. You are going to be disappointed big time.


18 posted on 08/12/2021 5:10:20 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Wiz-Nerd; polymuser
I can't believe even a half-assed political website like American Thinker would post such nonsense.

Let's count up all the things that make the author of this idiocy a paragon of socialism:

1. He's a retired public school teacher.

2. He's on Medicare.

3. He pays for Part B Hospitalization coverage, but those payments are reimbursed by the taxpayers of New York City.

4. His "private insurance" Medicare supplement is publicly funded under the terms of the union contract for the NYC school teachers.

Apparently this dope is that last person on the planet to figure out that the whole purpose of imposing socialized medicine is to ration health care in order to reduce the enormous burden that is placed on taxpayers by people like HIM.

19 posted on 08/12/2021 5:17:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Kaslin

We have socialized medicine.

What we don’t have is 100% .gov funded medicine. Yet.

Unless you are paying for everything out of pocket, and there are some that do, using our current “Insurance” is socialized medicine.


20 posted on 08/12/2021 5:23:03 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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