re: Mary Lou Retton hospitalized

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It is not communist health care

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Actually it is

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she deserves coverage because she is a citizen

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So she’s entitled to the labor of others? No, no actually she is not

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If Canada, Europe, and some Asian and Middle Eastern nations can figure it out

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Every used any of these systems? I have. You pay significantly higher taxes, do not get the best and brightest to provide them, have unreasonable wait times(I broke my wrist in Kuwait around 15 years ago. I was working in country and used the local healthcare instead of the paperwork to use the military provider. My wrist healed incorrectly waiting for a follow up and I ended up having to to fly to Germany to have army medical re break it and set it correctly. I found out that months to get a follow up were common. After that I always made sure that medical was part of my contracts).

And military medical isn’t great either. If you want an example of what a US system might look like look at how the DoD handles medical. Between the VA that is a terrifying joke, on base medical that scars for life or outsourced low bid contract stuff they send folks to. And that’s after they lied about providing for retirees and spouses for life, changing it to tricare and raising the rates yearly while decreasing services.

No, go back to pre Obamacare days where you could buy and afford the coverage you wanted. I carried catastrophic care when not on contract and it did exactly what I needed.

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How can she not have insurance

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Because she made a choice

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So she’s entitled to the labor of others? No, no actually she is not

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Wrong, she like the rest of us would pay into the program. A good citizen who is a patriotic American would be proud to help insure everyone.

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Wrong, she like the rest of us would pay into the program

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So communism, or socialism before communism.

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A good citizen who is a patriotic American would be proud to help insure everyone

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That’s a joke right? Ms Retton has the means to pay for her own medical coverage and has chosen not to. Why should that involve taking money from me to pay it for her?

Have ever dealt with the government before?

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Why would Medicare for All stop a doctor from treating a person with cancer?

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Because the state de incentivizes the best and brightest from entering the field with capped earnings, creating shortages of qualified and quality physicians able to treat patients. This leads to extended wait times when early treatment options would save or improve quality of life?

You do know that right? The average Canadian oncologist takes homes around 110,000 a year(less than half their US counterparts).

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That’s a joke right? Ms Retton has the means to pay for her own medical coverage and has chosen not to. Why should that involve taking money from me to pay it for her?

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If the correct system had already been in place then you would not have to pay for hers or anyone's healthcare, she would have already paid into it herself.

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Have ever dealt with the government before?

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Look at it this way, currently you have little say in your healthcare because private insurance companies can drop you from coverage any time they want. At least with Medicare for All, you would have a say in its policies.

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If the correct system had already been in place then you would not have to pay for hers or anyone's healthcare, she would have already paid into it herself.

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We had that before Obamacare “fixed it”.

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Look at it this way, currently you have little say in your healthcare because private insurance companies can drop you from coverage any time they want. At least with Medicare for All, you would have a say in its policies.

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This is a terrible troll.
Go back to pre Obamacare when we actually had options and could match care to what we needed.

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This is a terrible troll

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It is only a troll because it goes against your outdated way of thinking.

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Go back to pre Obamacare when we actually had options and could match care to what we needed.

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Do you mean back to win over half the country was uninsured because they could not afford it?

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My friend who moved to the UK says he has received excellent healthcare there and people I know who moved to France said they received better healthcare there than here and it was on the government's dime.

America is so rich that it is a disgrace we have the system we have.

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So why aren't people flooding the gates to get into those countries? We take more immigrants than those 2 countries combined each year. I would think if this is socialist bullshite health care is truly as good as you act those numbers would reflect it. Do you ever go to the DMV and think about how smoothly and efficiently its operated and want them to have a hand on more of your day to day life? I know I fricking don't.

Progstains are the greatest...to mock.