re: Identity Politics are being used to divide this Country like no other time

No I heard/saw it. I just don’t agree. England has free healthcare and let’s take a long look at their teeth.

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What you then get is - Waterdown health care, Rationing system on costly medications - It already happens in our socialist nations all around us with their glorious Universal Health Care systems. You add in govt oversite and incompetence into an already annoying doctor/patient situation that just labors things with more paperwork and then you start to look at disatrous wait times. People avoiding going to a doctor because of those times and essentially a shite system designed to fail so the govt can own a good 1/6 of the economy and no incentive to do better.

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That's some damn fine propaganda you got there.

By that logic, petting a dog and scratching his belly is beastiality. You are a clown.

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Advocating for socialized medicine kinda sorta makes you a socialist

By that logic advocating for the police, fire department, or any kind of social program makes you a socialist.

Luckily that kind of logic is asinine and you should be able to under what a mixed economy is

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Police, fire department, national defense etc are considered public goods.

One of the determinants of socialism is that it must entail the public provision of non-public goods(like healthcare).

So you can advocate(your word) for the police and fire department and not be advocating socialism because they are public goods.

But advocating for universal healthcare, a non public good, probably does make you a socialist.

Just try thinking this through my friend.

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don't need propaganda to push my ideology or to lie about

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Sounds like you do

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Public systems generally ration care on the basis of a patient’s need, for example by covering priority cost-effective treatments, and through the use of waiting lists. 

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So in other words when this actually happens those with the most critical need are put on top of the list

From the link you posted

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The private sector rations access by charging market prices to patients, with demand driven by a person's ability and willingness to pay

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So if you can't pay you're fricked and by fricked I mean you're either getting no treatment or getting treatment and going broke

So as it turns out rationing actually does occur here as well

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there are 30.4 million uninsured people in the U.S. Not having affordable, comprehensive insurance coverage often means that sick Americans do not even get in the door to see a doctor. For those who do have coverage, new rules that allow states to circumvent the Affordable Care Act’s mandated essential health benefits may mean skimpy coverage for some.

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While Americans overall enjoy shorter wait times for specialty care, wait times for same- or next-day appointments when sick are around average compared to other countries. U.S. adults are among the most frequent users of emergency departments. Nearly half who do report doing so because they couldn’t get an appointment with their regular doctor.

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nearly one of five U.S. adults skip doses or do not fill a prescription because of costs, just 2 percent to 9 percent of patients do so in the other countries discussed here.

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Public systems generally ration care on the basis of a patient’s need, for example by covering priority cost-effective treatments, and through the use of waiting lists.

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Generally speaking

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So if you can't pay you're fricked and by fricked I mean you're either getting no treatment or getting treatment and going broke

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I mean, if your an adult and can't afford healthcare then one should likely look to find gainful employment. No such thing as a free ride and again. HEALTHCARE IS NOT A frickING RIGHT. The tax payer is already burdened with emergency room visits from non insured and your frivolous lawsuits. In order for healthcare to be a RIGHT - you force a doctor to become subservient. Meaning, the quality of care will diminish day 1. Period

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there are 30.4 million uninsured people in the U.S. Not having affordable, comprehensive insurance coverage often means that sick Americans do not even get in the door to see a doctor. For those who do have coverage, new rules that allow states to circumvent the Affordable Care Act’s mandated essential health benefits may mean skimpy coverage for some.

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Any American can walk into any emergency room in America and receive care. Stop peddling lies from shite articles.

Know your rights

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While Americans overall enjoy shorter wait times for specialty care, wait times for same- or next-day appointments when sick are around average compared to other countries. U.S. adults are among the most frequent users of emergency departments. Nearly half who do report doing so because they couldn’t get an appointment with their regular doctor.

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Specialty care is kinda important is it not. Do you want to be on a 6month waiting list to see your gastro docter when your shitting blood.

Didn't think so

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nearly one of five U.S. adults skip doses or do not fill a prescription because of costs, just 2 percent to 9 percent of patients do so in the other countries discussed here.

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Now tell us what the tax rates in those countries are compared to American tax rates


And liberals like yourself can deny it until your blue in the face but if your care/age/cost go to a board review and the outlook isn't good - good luck getting that life saving treatment attempt in a socialized country. You'll be looking at Brazil for that care.

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mean, if your an adult and can't afford healthcare then one should likely look to find gainful employment. No such thing as a free ride a

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This one statement shoes your grasp of how hard it can be for people to find stable jobs with a hood insurance program. It's not a free ride it's called not letting people go broke but frick those people right?

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Meaning, the quality of care will diminish day 1. Period

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More propaganda from Floyd you're really good with this stuff

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Any American can walk into any emergency room in America and receive care. Stop peddling lies from shite articles.

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I'm not pedaling lies if you'd actually think about that statement for more then a second you'd realize that Americans who can't afford are likely to not even go into the doctor's office because putting food on the table is more important to them

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Do you want to be on a 6month waiting list to see your gastro docter when your shitting blood.

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More propaganda, there can be long wait times in any country even the US and while they maybe more frequent in say Canada the amount of those really long wait especially for serious concerns are pretty low

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Now tell us what the tax rates in those countries are compared to American tax rates

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How about you actually look through this thread about the cost of M4A I've posted it before. Nah you won't do that instead I'll do it for you

According to this article which tries to be sensationalist the cost of M4A would be
$34 trillion over 10 years. Keep in mind that even conservative think tanks have roughly the same estimate $34-$38 trillion over a decade

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Now that all sounds like a lot expect when you compare to our current system which cost us $3.65 trillion in 2018. Which that of course would pan out to be $36 trillion over ten years.

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As it turns out M4A should cost roughly the same as our current system or even less.

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So we have to add the existing 3.6 T to the proposed 3.8 T right?

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Pretty sure we'd be getting rid of one system and replacing it