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Losing my health insurance again
    #22501003 - 11/09/15 03:56 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)



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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22501240 - 11/09/15 04:41 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Well, if the GOP can keep both houses of congress and gain the White House, I have no doubt we'll be seeing big changes to the Obamacare debacle, it won't be fully repealed, as no govt program ever is. But we need majority in all three, otherwise dems will shut down the govt blocking any changes and just blame it on republicans like they always do...


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22501536 - 11/09/15 05:25 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/09/8577891/more-trouble-co-ops-health-republic-told-wind-down



From your article:
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Health Republic offered one of the lowest premiums of any insurer on the exchange...

Its success may have been its undoing.

The insurer's low premiums attracted roughly 20 percent of the New York market, but the company never had the reserves to cover all those members. From the beginning, many industry insiders wondered whether its offerings were too generous.



Another failure of private insurance.  Why bother with a middle man?  Single payer would solve this problem, and drop rates considerably for everyone if there's no middle man insurance sucking people's money away.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
    #22501553 - 11/09/15 05:28 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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zappaisgod said:
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/09/8577891/more-trouble-co-ops-health-republic-told-wind-down



From your article:
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Health Republic offered one of the lowest premiums of any insurer on the exchange...

Its success may have been its undoing.

The insurer's low premiums attracted roughly 20 percent of the New York market, but the company never had the reserves to cover all those members. From the beginning, many industry insiders wondered whether its offerings were too generous.



Another failure of private insurance.  Why bother with a middle man?  Single payer would solve this problem, and drop rates considerably for everyone if there's no middle man insurance sucking people's money away.




In single payer, the government is the middle man, I don't see the logic in your line of reasoning. Trade one small middle man for a gigantic one...


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22501809 - 11/09/15 06:16 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Government already has a middleman in place in Medicare; we can just do 'Medicare for All' without any super major expansion.

Also, Government doesn't need to make a profit, so we get healthcare based on needs rather than profit.  Eliminating profit also cuts costs.

Furthermore, Government IS big and would have more negotiating power with the drug companies.  Why do you think drugs are so much cheaper in Europe than they are in the US?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
    #22502315 - 11/09/15 07:47 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I was perfectly happy with my Insurance before asshole fucked me.  Now I have had two insurance plans yanked away because of that cunt.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
    #22502331 - 11/09/15 07:50 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Government already has a middleman in place in Medicare; we can just do 'Medicare for All' without any super major expansion.

Also, Government doesn't need to make a profit, so we get healthcare based on needs rather than profit.  Eliminating profit also cuts costs.

Furthermore, Government IS big and would have more negotiating power with the drug companies.  Why do you think drugs are so much cheaper in Europe than they are in the US?



Medicare is for retired people only.  Medicaid is for bums.  There is no fucking profit to speak of in health care.  Europe is, as per it's wont, a freeloader on the US.  Cut Pharma profits?  No research.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22502335 - 11/09/15 07:51 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

no ones going to pay for your fertility treatments zappa.  :noway:


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: sprinkles]
    #22502344 - 11/09/15 07:52 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

By fertility treatment do you mean the cost of postage for the straw you have been begging me for?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22502412 - 11/09/15 08:02 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I want stuff and things!!!


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22502645 - 11/09/15 09:01 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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I was perfectly happy with my Insurance before asshole fucked me.  Now I have had two insurance plans yanked away because of that cunt.



That's why I'm saying - single payer.
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Medicare is for retired people only.



Today it is.  Not if we improve Obamacare.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
    #22502672 - 11/09/15 09:09 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Government already has a middleman in place in Medicare; we can just do 'Medicare for All' without any super major expansion.

Also, Government doesn't need to make a profit, so we get healthcare based on needs rather than profit.  Eliminating profit also cuts costs.

Furthermore, Government IS big and would have more negotiating power with the drug companies.  Why do you think drugs are so much cheaper in Europe than they are in the US?




Expanding Medicaid for all would require a massive expansion of govt, more agencies, more buerocrats, more waste, more fraud, more abuse.

Yes, I know all too well that govt sees no need to make a profit, they are accountable to no one, and it's not thier money they're spending so who the fuck cares, right?

And yes, Europe gets cheaper drugs, the research and development costs are raised here. Like Zappa said, less profits, less research, less drugs.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22503208 - 11/10/15 12:27 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Expanding Medicaid for all would require a massive expansion of govt, more agencies, more buerocrats, more waste, more fraud, more abuse.



Why would it require that?  Sure it would require more people to process more patients, but there would be huge economies of scale, and the existing infrastructure is already in place and could be applied to younger people.

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Yes, I know all too well that govt sees no need to make a profit, they are accountable to no one, and it's not thier money they're spending so who the fuck cares, right?



As a patient, if given a choice between someone who wants to maximize his own profit by minimizing my care, and someone who wants to maximize my care because they don't care about profit, I'd prefer the latter.  But there's not unlimited resources, even Government care would have to have limits.

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And yes, Europe gets cheaper drugs, the research and development costs are raised here. Like Zappa said, less profits, less research, less drugs.



Agreed.  And you're cool paying for everyone else's healthcare except for the people in your own country?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
    #22503450 - 11/10/15 03:17 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Why would it require that?  Sure it would require more people to process more patients, but there would be huge economies of scale, and the existing infrastructure is already in place and could be applied to younger people.




Lol, there is currently over 65 million people on Medicaid, if you think quintupling that number wouldn't dramatically increase the size of govt, your very naive




As a patient, if given a choice between someone who wants to maximize his own profit by minimizing my care, and someone who wants to maximize my care because they don't care about profit, I'd prefer the latter.  But there's not unlimited resources, even Government care would have to have limits.




There's that naïveté again, have you heard of the VA? Fudging numbers to increase their bonuses, while thousands die, nope, no profit motive there. Of course there'd be limits, and I'd rather those limits be imposed by a contract that I'm paying for than some govt shmuck just sitting around deciding willy nilly who lives and who dies, possibly based on my voting record(yes, there is precedence for it)

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Agreed.  And you're cool paying for everyone else's healthcare except for the people in your own country?





No, but I am cool with paying for own healthcare and having continued research done to enhance my quality of life, which wouldn't get done under singlepayer.

So you're cool with drug companies no longer developing cures and treatment?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse] * 1
    #22504429 - 11/10/15 10:29 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22504437 - 11/10/15 10:31 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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if you think quintupling that number wouldn't dramatically increase the size of govt, your very naïve



Apparently, you didn't see my response:  "Sure it would require more people to process more patients, but there would be huge economies of scale, and the existing infrastructure is already in place and could be applied to younger people."

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have you heard of the VA?



Of course I've heard of it.  I'm a veteran and I've posted many articles about the current funding shortage that Republicans refuse to acknowledge.

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So you're cool with drug companies no longer developing cures and treatment?



No, they'd still develop cures and treatments.  But the costs would be more evenly shared amongst the countries needing the drugs.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Patlal]
    #22504440 - 11/10/15 10:31 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees country around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
    #22504578 - 11/10/15 11:08 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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zappaisgod said:
I was perfectly happy with my Insurance before asshole fucked me.  Now I have had two insurance plans yanked away because of that cunt.



That's why I'm saying - single payer.


  That phrase is a lie.  It will in fact be multi-payer.  Multiple taxpayers who aren't fucking loser bitches.
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Medicare is for retired people only.



Today it is.  Not if we improve Obamacare.




The best way to improve Obamacare is to abolish it.

Premiums going up to $2,000 a month, about a 15% increase.  If we had government insurance it would be even more to me.  And the care would suck.  See VA, government health care.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Patlal]
    #22504583 - 11/10/15 11:10 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22504669 - 11/10/15 11:32 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Patlal said:
Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?




When you're right, you're right... 50000 Canadians go to the US for care. Roughly 0.1% of the population. Solid point Zap


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Patlal]
    #22504706 - 11/10/15 11:40 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

:rofl2:


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Patlal]
    #22504728 - 11/10/15 11:48 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Of course I've heard of it.  I'm a veteran and I've posted many articles about the current funding shortage that Republicans refuse to acknowledge.




I notice you conveniently skipped over the part about people at the VA allowing thousands of serviceman and women to die to increase their bonuses, you don't mind that part? As a vet, I'd think you'd be livid about it, but I guess liberal ideology comes first. I've never served but I seem to care more about vets than you do, that's sad

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50000 Canadians go to the US for care. Roughly 0.1% of the population. Solid point Zap





And if it were superior health care, that number would be zero

I wonder which Canadians are sitting around thinking "the healthcare sucks in America, I'm gonna go THERE for my surgery!"


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22504831 - 11/10/15 12:16 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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I notice you conveniently skipped over the part about people at the VA allowing thousands of serviceman and women to die to increase their bonuses, you don't mind that part?



First of all people didn't get bonuses "for allowing thousands of servicemen and women to die".  That's simply a lie.  Secondly, they got rid of the bonus system.

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As a vet, I'd think you'd be livid about it, but I guess liberal ideology comes first. I've never served but I seem to care more about vets than you do, that's sad



I've argued we need to close the VA funding gap to care for our servicemen and women.  Are you on board with that, or are you just delivering lip service about how much you pretend to care as your party calls for more tax cuts for the rich?

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50000 Canadians go to the US for care. Roughly 0.1% of the population. Solid point Zap



And if it were superior health care, that number would be zero



750,000 Americans travelled abroad for Medical Care in 2007

A lot more left for healthcare than came here for it.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22504851 - 11/10/15 12:20 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?




What part of americans going to Canada for healthcare didnt make a dent in your thick fucking skull!?! Lmao!

Single payer is clearly the way to go. Low-information idiots are the only people who can't fucking see that. The whole world pays less for healthcare, and most of them have better outcomes. Conservatives need to stop swallowing propagandist garbage.

The whole world isn't wrong. You are.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
    #22504872 - 11/10/15 12:26 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

They got rid of the bonus system because they got caught

Of course vets should get the care and funding they need, that's why dems fight against them being allowed to go to private health providers:shrug:


Canada has about a tenth of the population we do, so there's that. Now show me figures for how many came from EVERY country in the world to get healthcare here, if you dare...


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    #22504875 - 11/10/15 12:27 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?




What part of americans going to Canada for healthcare didnt make a dent in your thick fucking skull!?! Lmao!

Single payer is clearly the way to go. Low-information idiots are the only people who can't fucking see that. The whole world pays less for healthcare, and most of them have better outcomes. Conservatives need to stop swallowing propagandist garbage.

The whole world isn't wrong. You are.




How's that single payer working out in Cuba, Greece and Venezuela? I'll wait...


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22504909 - 11/10/15 12:40 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I order my medication from Bulgari for less than 1/10 the cost. My mom flew to Costa Rica on multiple occasions for their reduced healthcare costs. He doctor th
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Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?




What part of americans going to Canada for healthcare didnt make a dent in your thick fucking skull!?! Lmao!

Single payer is clearly the way to go. Low-information idiots are the only people who can't fucking see that. The whole world pays less for healthcare, and most of them have better outcomes. Conservatives need to stop swallowing propagandist garbage.

The whole world isn't wrong. You are.




How's that single payer working out in Cuba, Greece and Venezuela? I'll wait...




I haven't heard of any problems with the healthcare system in those countries specifically.


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They got rid of the bonus system because they got caught

Of course vets should get the care and funding they need, that's why dems fight against them being allowed to go to private health providers:shrug:


Canada has about a tenth of the population we do, so there's that. Now show me figures for how many came from EVERY country in the world to get healthcare here, if you dare...




Please show evidence of this 'bonus program' if you're going to keep going on about it. What does Canada's population have to do with it? How does that factor in AT ALL? If anything we have more of a reason to do it, because we have far more to lose keeping the system we have.

Look up the cost of any procedure or medication in the US vs anywhere else in the world. Generally speaking, it's at LEAST double, and typically 3-10X as much. I brought up the Hep-C drug 'Sofosbuvir' in a thread a few months ago. In the US we pay $80,000 for a course of this medication. In Egypt it costs $300. That's roughly a 27,000% difference.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22505152 - 11/10/15 01:43 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Of course vets should get the care and funding they need, that's why dems fight against them being allowed to go to private health providers:shrug:



Dems are NOT fighting against them being allowed to go to private health providers.  PLEASE stop with the straw man arguments!  :shake:


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    #22505745 - 11/10/15 03:55 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Of course vets should get the care and funding they need, that's why dems fight against them being allowed to go to private health providers:shrug:



Dems are NOT fighting against them being allowed to go to private health providers.  PLEASE stop with the straw man arguments!  :shake:




http://hotair.com/archives/2015/09/03/va-inspector-general-307k-veterans-died-waiting-for-health-care/

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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22505814 - 11/10/15 04:09 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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I order my medication from Bulgari for less than 1/10 the cost. My mom flew to Costa Rica on multiple occasions for their reduced healthcare costs. He doctor th
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Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?




What part of americans going to Canada for healthcare didnt make a dent in your thick fucking skull!?! Lmao!

Single payer is clearly the way to go. Low-information idiots are the only people who can't fucking see that. The whole world pays less for healthcare, and most of them have better outcomes. Conservatives need to stop swallowing propagandist garbage.

The whole world isn't wrong. You are.




How's that single payer working out in Cuba, Greece and Venezuela? I'll wait...




I haven't heard of any problems with the healthcare system in those countries specifically.


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They got rid of the bonus system because they got caught

Of course vets should get the care and funding they need, that's why dems fight against them being allowed to go to private health providers:shrug:


Canada has about a tenth of the population we do, so there's that. Now show me figures for how many came from EVERY country in the world to get healthcare here, if you dare...




Please show evidence of this 'bonus program' if you're going to keep going on about it. What does Canada's population have to do with it? How does that factor in AT ALL? If anything we have more of a reason to do it, because we have far more to lose keeping the system we have.

Look up the cost of any procedure or medication in the US vs anywhere else in the world. Generally speaking, it's at LEAST double, and typically 3-10X as much. I brought up the Hep-C drug 'Sofosbuvir' in a thread a few months ago. In the US we pay $80,000 for a course of this medication. In Egypt it costs $300. That's roughly a 27,000% difference.




Cheaper is always better, right? That's why I drive a Honda instead of a Cadillac, that's why I use an asus laptop instead of an alien, eat hotdogs, not those yucky steaks!


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22506026 - 11/10/15 04:45 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Dems are NOT fighting against them being allowed to go to private health providers.  PLEASE stop with the straw man arguments!  :shake:




http://hotair.com/archives/2015/09/03/va-inspector-general-307k-veterans-died-waiting-for-health-care/

Truth hurts, doesn't it?



Can you please tell us where in your article it says democrats are fighting against vets being allowed to go to private health providers???  It's not there.  Veterans are free to get private healthcare wherever they can afford it. 

What's more, your article speaks out AGAINST the Government paying ANY money for private insurance for veterans:
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It’s time for the federal government to gradually start closing down the VA department. The move will probably take at least 20 years with a gradual reduction of benefits until the budget reaches zero. What the government could do instead is start partnering up with military charities. This doesn’t mean giving them money, but simply giving them access. If a vet is in the hospital, then the charities could be allowed to hand out information on what they do and how they help.



Are you kidding me?!?  You believe veterans should rely on CHARITY for health care?!?!?

Please don't claim you "care" about veterans.  :mad2:



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    #22506067 - 11/10/15 04:54 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

The ACA is great for me.  Hope the Republiturds keep out of the White House.

Thanks Obama!


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22506214 - 11/10/15 05:30 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Please show evidence of this 'bonus program' if you're going to keep going on about it.




Evidence please. Or don't you have any? Rush Limbaugh's utterance doesn't count! :wink:

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What does Canada's population have to do with it? How does that factor in AT ALL? If anything we have more of a reason to do it, because we have far more to lose keeping the system we have.




Please respond to this. You right wingers like to cite population differences as a reason nothing but the GOP way will work in America, without any sort of supporting evidence. Population has no effect. Zero!

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Look up the cost of any procedure or medication in the US vs anywhere else in the world. Generally speaking, it's at LEAST double, and typically 3-10X as much. I brought up the Hep-C drug 'Sofosbuvir' in a thread a few months ago. In the US we pay $80,000 for a course of this medication. In Egypt it costs $300. That's roughly a 27,000% difference.




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Cheaper is always better, right? That's why I drive a Honda instead of a Cadillac, that's why I use an asus laptop instead of an alien, eat hotdogs, not those yucky steaks!




Cheaper is better, when you're talking about the EXACT SAME product, manufactured by the, wait for it, EXACT SAME COMPANY! It's a 27,000,000% difference for the exact same thing.

What is your fucking damage? Can't you understand a perfectly clear and straightforward argument?

By the way, I might add, for all that increased cost under the system you support (ie. Wasted fucking money), we have generally worse outcomes than more than 20 single payer countries.

As I said before, the whole world isn't wrong. You are.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22506262 - 11/10/15 05:41 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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we have generally worse outcomes than more than 20 single payer countries.




C'mon, our healthcare ranking isn't all THAT bad.  :smirk:



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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22506321 - 11/10/15 05:55 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Please show evidence of this 'bonus program' if you're going to keep going on about it.




Evidence please. Or don't you have any? Rush Limbaugh's utterance doesn't count! :wink:

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What does Canada's population have to do with it? How does that factor in AT ALL? If anything we have more of a reason to do it, because we have far more to lose keeping the system we have.




Please respond to this. You right wingers like to cite population differences as a reason nothing but the GOP way will work in America, without any sort of supporting evidence. Population has no effect. Zero!

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Look up the cost of any procedure or medication in the US vs anywhere else in the world. Generally speaking, it's at LEAST double, and typically 3-10X as much. I brought up the Hep-C drug 'Sofosbuvir' in a thread a few months ago. In the US we pay $80,000 for a course of this medication. In Egypt it costs $300. That's roughly a 27,000% difference.




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Cheaper is always better, right? That's why I drive a Honda instead of a Cadillac, that's why I use an asus laptop instead of an alien, eat hotdogs, not those yucky steaks!




Cheaper is better, when you're talking about the EXACT SAME product, manufactured by the, wait for it, EXACT SAME COMPANY! It's a 27,000,000% difference for the exact same thing.

What is your fucking damage? Can't you understand a perfectly clear and straightforward argument?

By the way, I might add, for all that increased cost under the system you support (ie. Wasted fucking money), we have generally worse outcomes than more than 20 single payer countries.

As I said before, the whole world isn't wrong. You are.




I tell ya what, you keep taking your foreign drugs and I'll keep taking my overpriced ones, how's that sound?

http://www.phrma.org/counterfeit-drugs

They are NOT the same thing in many cases, maybe you don't give a shit about potency, but a lot of us do, so kindly take your hate speech elsewhere.

http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/health/watered-down-chemo-drugs-given-to-1-200-cancer-patients-1.1341425

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/03/life-extending-cancer-drugs-to-be-axed-by-nhs

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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22506343 - 11/10/15 06:02 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Do you even bother reading your own links???

Your first link pointed to a page that discussed counterfeit drugs IN THE UNITED STATES (which also includes links to other countries).

Your second link didn't work, and I really don't know what relevance your third link has to anything.


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    #22506420 - 11/10/15 06:18 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

The drugs I was referring to are made by the exact same American based company. They are the exact same drugs. You're a fucking... :facepalm3:

Keep jerking off dude.

As Falcon's video stated, our healthcare system is rated 37th best worldwide, yet we pay 40% more on average than any other nation.

I know facts don't even pierce the dermis stretched over that thick fucking head of yours, but I present them anyway.


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    #22506464 - 11/10/15 06:28 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Do you even bother reading your own links???

Your first link pointed to a page that discussed counterfeit drugs IN THE UNITED STATES (which also includes links to other countries).

Your second link didn't work, and I really don't know what relevance your third link has to anything.




dude it's like talking to a wall

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    #22506468 - 11/10/15 06:29 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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The news isn’t all bad. We smoke less than the cit­izens of most oth­er coun­tries, con­sume less al­co­hol, gen­er­ally have lower blood pres­sure, and are more likely to be screened and treated for can­cer. And yet the bot­tom line is un­deni­able: The life ex­pect­ancy for Amer­ic­ans at birth now trails that of 25 oth­er coun­tries.




I'm sure paying people to stay at home and get fat and lazy has NOTHING to do with it either

http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/newsdesk/u-s-health-care-is-best-worst

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Later in life, we de­vel­op dia­betes, heart dis­ease, and chron­ic lung prob­lems more fre­quently than our in­ter­na­tion­al coun­ter­parts do.




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The availability of advanced medical technology and sophisticated training of physicians are cited as driving motivators for growth in foreigners traveling to the U.S. for medical care,[68] whereas the low costs for hospital stays and major/complex procedures at Western-accredited medical facilities abroad are cited as major motivators for American travelers.




Quality healthcare vs cheap healthcare

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    #22506588 - 11/10/15 06:54 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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The news isn’t all bad. We smoke less than the cit­izens of most oth­er coun­tries, con­sume less al­co­hol, gen­er­ally have lower blood pres­sure, and are more likely to be screened and treated for can­cer. And yet the bot­tom line is un­deni­able: The life ex­pect­ancy for Amer­ic­ans at birth now trails that of 25 oth­er coun­tries.




I'm sure paying people to stay at home and get fat and lazy has NOTHING to do with it either

http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/newsdesk/u-s-health-care-is-best-worst

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Later in life, we de­vel­op dia­betes, heart dis­ease, and chron­ic lung prob­lems more fre­quently than our in­ter­na­tion­al coun­ter­parts do.




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The availability of advanced medical technology and sophisticated training of physicians are cited as driving motivators for growth in foreigners traveling to the U.S. for medical care,[68] whereas the low costs for hospital stays and major/complex procedures at Western-accredited medical facilities abroad are cited as major motivators for American travelers.




Quality healthcare vs cheap healthcare

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism




It's not so simple as quality vs cost. As I said earlier, in Egypt you can buy the EXACT same drug from the EXACT same American company for $300, but in America it costs $80,000. It is the EXACT same quality. EXACTLY!


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    #22506595 - 11/10/15 06:57 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?




When you're right, you're right... 50000 Canadians go to the US for care. Roughly 0.1% of the population. Solid point Zap




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    #22510518 - 11/11/15 05:48 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Patlal said:
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Patlal said:
Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?




When you're right, you're right... 50000 Canadians go to the US for care. Roughly 0.1% of the population. Solid point Zap




God I love Canada




me too, when I was a teenager, the canadian girls ALWAYS put out, the "Merican chicks, not so much...


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Patlal]
    #22514960 - 11/12/15 05:19 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Patlal said:
Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?




When you're right, you're right... 50000 Canadians go to the US for care. Roughly 0.1% of the population. Solid point Zap



Why should any of them go there?


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    #22514970 - 11/12/15 05:21 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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zappaisgod said:
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Patlal said:
Will you guys get your heads out of your asses and go universal already. How many more clues do you need in order to realize that your fucked up private system is fucked up?

Stubborn America. Sees countries around them implement successful systems and programs. Does the opposite and fails....



What part of Canadians going over the border to pay for health care didn't make a dent in your fucking thick skull?




What part of americans going to Canada for healthcare didnt make a dent in your thick fucking skull!?! Lmao!

Single payer is clearly the way to go. Low-information idiots are the only people who can't fucking see that. The whole world pays less for healthcare, and most of them have better outcomes. Conservatives need to stop swallowing propagandist garbage.

The whole world isn't wrong. You are.



What Americans go to Canada for health care?  Single Payer is a linguistic fraud.  Millions of people will pay for the health care of hundreds of millions.


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    #22514974 - 11/12/15 05:23 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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The ACA is great for me.  Hope the Republiturds keep out of the White House.

Thanks Obama!



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    #22515050 - 11/12/15 05:43 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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The ACA is great for me.  Hope the Republiturds keep out of the White House.

Thanks Obama!



Welfare case.  The only people who like Obamacare




People with pre-existing conditions?


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    #22515208 - 11/12/15 06:33 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

:thatsaten:


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    #22515311 - 11/12/15 07:04 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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The ACA is great for me.  Hope the Republiturds keep out of the White House.

Thanks Obama!



Welfare case.  The only people who like Obamacare




People with pre-existing conditions?




Lol... any woman who's ever had a yeast infection?


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    #22515957 - 11/12/15 09:29 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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The ACA is great for me.  Hope the Republiturds keep out of the White House.

Thanks Obama!



Welfare case.  The only people who like Obamacare




People with pre-existing conditions?




So the govt had to spend trillions of dollars and regulate 1/5 of the economy to write a bill that would force insurance companies to provide insurance for "pre existing conditions"?

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    #22516194 - 11/12/15 10:58 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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The ACA is great for me.  Hope the Republiturds keep out of the White House.

Thanks Obama!



Welfare case.  The only people who like Obamacare




People with pre-existing conditions?




So the govt had to spend trillions of dollars and regulate 1/5 of the economy to write a bill that would force insurance companies to provide insurance for "pre existing conditions"?

Yeah, that makes perfect sense




... Trillions of dollars? :laugh2:


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    #22516844 - 11/13/15 05:52 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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The ACA is great for me.  Hope the Republiturds keep out of the White House.

Thanks Obama!



Welfare case.  The only people who like Obamacare




People with pre-existing conditions?




So the govt had to spend trillions of dollars and regulate 1/5 of the economy to write a bill that would force insurance companies to provide insurance for "pre existing conditions"?

Yeah, that makes perfect sense




... Trillions of dollars? :laugh2:




http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cbo-obamacare-to-cost-2-trillion-over-the-next-decade/article/2559276

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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse] * 1
    #22516978 - 11/13/15 07:15 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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hostileuniverse said:
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fivepointer said:
The ACA is great for me.  Hope the Republiturds keep out of the White House.

Thanks Obama!



Welfare case.  The only people who like Obamacare




People with pre-existing conditions?




So the govt had to spend trillions of dollars and regulate 1/5 of the economy to write a bill that would force insurance companies to provide insurance for "pre existing conditions"?

Yeah, that makes perfect sense




I'm not saying there's not a better way.  I'm a fan of single payer personally.  But pretending like  welfare queens are the only one's who benefit is bullshit.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22517936 - 11/13/15 12:18 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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... Trillions of dollars? :laugh2:




http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cbo-obamacare-to-cost-2-trillion-over-the-next-decade/article/2559276

Yeah dog, TRILLIONS



That's the cost over 10 years.  :picard:  Anyone can pretend something is more expensive than it really is by looking at the cost over an extended period of time.  Heck, I'm surprised they didn't use a 100 year time frame (although that's probably because it would have been debunked much quicker).

Also, that number does NOT include the savings and additional revenue that come from Obamacare, such as a $716 billion decrease in Medicare costs.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22518250 - 11/13/15 02:02 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

You said he government spent trillions... that's a 10 year projection, and the article was written this year, so we haven't 'spent trillions'. Also, as falcon pointed out, it alleviates costs of other social programs. On top of that, they receive tax revenue from people who refuse to get insurance.

It's really a small price to pay to save children's lives, isn't it? Oh, I forgot, you only care about unborn children.

We should have had a single-payer system, instead of what Republicans watered it down to. Even many conservatives in this country support single-payer.


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    #22518258 - 11/13/15 02:05 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Canada's Healthcare system is superior in every conceivable aspect. From quality, recovery rates, financial efficiency, consumer satisfaction. Its just better.


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    #22520205 - 11/13/15 09:44 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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It's really a small price to pay to save children's lives, isn't it? Oh, I forgot, you only care about unborn children.




all poor children are covered by medicaid, you know, the single payer system for the poor

you're argument is logically flawed on this one, big time

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We should have had a single-payer system, instead of what Republicans watered it down to. Even many conservatives in this country support single-payer.




are you retarded? obamacare was passed when democrats had both houses and the white house, they could have passed whatever the fuck they wanted to, thats a fact, repubs were powerless to stop them. EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTED AGAINST IT! the fact you still blame them for it, shows your stupidity and political ignorance...


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22520297 - 11/13/15 09:54 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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It's really a small price to pay to save children's lives, isn't it? Oh, I forgot, you only care about unborn children.




all poor children are covered by medicaid, you know, the single payer system for the poor

you're argument is logically flawed on this one, big time

Quote:

We should have had a single-payer system, instead of what Republicans watered it down to. Even many conservatives in this country support single-payer.




are you retarded? obamacare was passed when democrats had both houses and the white house, they could have passed whatever the fuck they wanted to, thats a fact, repubs were powerless to stop them. EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTED AGAINST IT! the fact you still blame them for it, shows your stupidity and political ignorance...




Hmm, I wonder, do you get warnings for flaming? Or is it only me and ppw?

I guess we'll find out.


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    #22520480 - 11/13/15 10:25 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Hmm, I wonder, do you get warnings for flaming? Or is it only me and ppw?

I guess we'll find out.




shit man, Burger and I get banned, you get a "warning" LMFAO!

I used to report every other post of yours insulting me, I gave up, the mods obviously like the libs more, waste of my time, Ill take a ban anyday for calling shit the way I see it


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22520490 - 11/13/15 10:27 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Hmm, I wonder, do you get warnings for flaming? Or is it only me and ppw?

I guess we'll find out.




shit man, Burger and I get banned, you get a "warning" LMFAO!

I used to report every other post of yours insulting me, I gave up, the mods obviously like the libs more, waste of my time, Ill take a ban anyday for calling shit the way I see it




I didn't realize you had been banned. Has burgerbrain been permanently banned yet?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22520591 - 11/13/15 10:52 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Hmm, I wonder, do you get warnings for flaming? Or is it only me and ppw?

I guess we'll find out.




shit man, Burger and I get banned, you get a "warning" LMFAO!

I used to report every other post of yours insulting me, I gave up, the mods obviously like the libs more, waste of my time, Ill take a ban anyday for calling shit the way I see it




I didn't realize you had been banned. Has burgerbrain been permanently banned yet?




nope they just gave him a week, me a day, haven't you seen his posts? or are you so high on your Bernie juice you don't see them?


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    #22520603 - 11/13/15 10:57 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Hmm, I wonder, do you get warnings for flaming? Or is it only me and ppw?

I guess we'll find out.




shit man, Burger and I get banned, you get a "warning" LMFAO!

I used to report every other post of yours insulting me, I gave up, the mods obviously like the libs more, waste of my time, Ill take a ban anyday for calling shit the way I see it




I didn't realize you had been banned. Has burgerbrain been permanently banned yet?




nope they just gave him a week, me a day, haven't you seen his posts? or are you so high on your Bernie juice you don't see them?




fucking Bernie juice?! HAHAHAHA awesome


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22520716 - 11/13/15 11:37 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Hmm, I wonder, do you get warnings for flaming? Or is it only me and ppw?

I guess we'll find out.




shit man, Burger and I get banned, you get a "warning" LMFAO!

I used to report every other post of yours insulting me, I gave up, the mods obviously like the libs more, waste of my time, Ill take a ban anyday for calling shit the way I see it




I didn't realize you had been banned. Has burgerbrain been permanently banned yet?




nope they just gave him a week, me a day, haven't you seen his posts? or are you so high on your Bernie juice you don't see them?




I blocked him a while ago. It just got to be too much w/ that dude.

I only get high on Bernie juice on the weekends, fyi.


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    #22520723 - 11/13/15 11:39 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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I blocked him a while ago. It just got to be too much w/ that dude.

I only get high on Bernie juice on the weekends, fyi.




blocking is the cowards way out, ya gotta keep a close on your enemies, right?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse] * 1
    #22520793 - 11/14/15 12:09 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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I blocked him a while ago. It just got to be too much w/ that dude.

I only get high on Bernie juice on the weekends, fyi.




blocking is the cowards way out, ya gotta keep a close on your enemies, right?




Nah... I don't like wasting my time on garbage, and if I don't block him, I end up giving it more attention than deserved.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22521286 - 11/14/15 07:41 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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I blocked him a while ago. It just got to be too much w/ that dude.

I only get high on Bernie juice on the weekends, fyi.




blocking is the cowards way out, ya gotta keep a close on your enemies, right?




Nah... I don't like wasting my time on garbage, and if I don't block him, I end up giving it more attention than deserved.




so you're saying you lack self discipline? lol, cmon man, you set your self up for that one!:lmafo:


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #22521305 - 11/14/15 07:50 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Canada's Healthcare system is superior in every conceivable aspect. From quality, recovery rates, financial efficiency, consumer satisfaction. Its just better.




Let's see if Zap understands this statement


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    #22521309 - 11/14/15 07:53 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Canada's Healthcare system is superior in every conceivable aspect. From quality, recovery rates, financial efficiency, consumer satisfaction. Its just better.




Let's if Zap understands this statement




that must be why those that can afford to come to the US for treatment, do...


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22521337 - 11/14/15 08:06 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Must be why your politicians cross the border to come get our Healthcare and an estimated 5 million of your citizens flee your garbage system to seek care elsewhere every year. Canada being on of the primary destinations. The number of patients coming here is greater then the number leaving on a per capita basis. Even your doctor's make the migration at a signifigant rate. Your health cares privitized trash.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22521575 - 11/14/15 09:34 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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that must be why those that can afford to come to the US for treatment, do...



No one claimed our health care wasn't great for the wealthy.


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    #22521730 - 11/14/15 10:21 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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that must be why those that can afford to come to the US for treatment, do...



No one claimed our health care wasn't great for the wealthy.




LOL how will requiring by law that people buy health insurance change that?

Nearly half of the 17 insurance marketplaces set up by the states and the District under President Obama’s health law are struggling financially, presenting state officials with an unexpected and serious challenge five years after the passage of the landmark Affordable Care Act.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/almost-half-of-obamacare-exchanges-are-struggling-over-their-future/2015/05/01/f32eeea2-ea03-11e4-aae1-d642717d8afa_story.html

Federal Health Exchange Approved Fake Claims
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    #22522196 - 11/14/15 12:28 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Must be why your politicians cross the border to come get our Healthcare and an estimated 5 million of your citizens flee your garbage system to seek care elsewhere every year. Canada being on of the primary destinations. The number of patients coming here is greater then the number leaving on a per capita basis. Even your doctor's make the migration at a signifigant rate. Your health cares privitized trash.




http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/06/canadian.health.care.system/

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/361283

http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/4275324


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    #22522232 - 11/14/15 12:35 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

90% of Canadians support socialized healthcare

You can cherry pick reports all day man. We have a near unanimous undying love for our Healthcare system.


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    #22522266 - 11/14/15 12:40 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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90% of Canadians support socialized healthcare

You can cherry pick reports all day man. We have a near unanimous undying love for our Healthcare system.




Hitler had pretty good support too, morality shouldn't be dictated by popularity


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    #22522294 - 11/14/15 12:45 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Captilism has no place in healthcare. It may work when consumers have freedom of choice in their participation but nobody decides to get sick or injured. To seriously suggest socialist Healthcare is immoral is sick, and just goes to show me how throughly you've been indoctrinated into the defense of privitized healthcare. Its a terrible system that fucks the sick and ill out of the care they have a personal right to. Its grotesque to pursue profits off the sick and dying.


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    #22522588 - 11/14/15 01:59 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Captilism has no place in healthcare. It may work when consumers have freedom of choice in their participation but nobody decides to get sick or injured. To seriously suggest socialist Healthcare is immoral is sick, and just goes to show me how throughly you've been indoctrinated into the defense of privitized healthcare. Its a terrible system that fucks the sick and ill out of the care they have a personal right to. Its grotesque to pursue profits off the sick and dying.




Is it grotesque to pursue profits off the hungry? How about the cold? The homeless?

If healthcare is a right, that should only mean that you have the right to pursue the best healthcare, not that someone is obligated to provide it to you.

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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #22522647 - 11/14/15 02:13 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Bodhi of Ankou said:
Captilism has no place in healthcare. It may work when consumers have freedom of choice in their participation but nobody decides to get sick or injured. To seriously suggest socialist Healthcare is immoral is sick, and just goes to show me how throughly you've been indoctrinated into the defense of privitized healthcare. Its a terrible system that fucks the sick and ill out of the care they have a personal right to. Its grotesque to pursue profits off the sick and dying.



If there is no place for capitalism in health care why do doctors, nurses and medical administrators insist on being paid?  Why do the people who build the hospitals insist on being paid?  Why do the researchers insist on being paid?  Why do the manufacturers' workers insist on being paid?  Hell, some of them even go on strike for more money, the greedy fucks.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22522798 - 11/14/15 02:48 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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If healthcare is a right, that should only mean that you have the right to pursue the best healthcare, not that someone is obligated to provide it to you.

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if your mere desire for something, anything, imposes a duty on other people to satisfy you, then they have no choice in their lives, no say in what they do, they have no liberty, they cannot pursue their happiness. Your "right" to happiness at their expense means that they become rightless serfs, i.e., your slaves. Your right to anything at others' expense means that they become rightless.







Youre first three examples are ridiculous, especially the homeless. The other two because the market suffices in supplying those in a fair manner and where they fall short socialism neatly meets their demands.

Good health is not a desire, or want. Its a basic necessity to adequately be able to provide for oneself. It is not forced slavery to need someone to mend your leg. Its altruistic to help your fellow man in that situation. Noble for us to share the load the same way we share the costs of roads and schools. To privitize something a person has no choice in purchasing ensures that they will be enslaved when they require it's services. Not by desire or choice, and the people who set prices are tacitly aware of that.

Zappa your points arnt even worth addressing because nobody expects that stuff to happen for free nor does it.


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    #22523556 - 11/14/15 05:22 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Let's just all work for free like happy little commies...


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    #22523560 - 11/14/15 05:23 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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If healthcare is a right, that should only mean that you have the right to pursue the best healthcare, not that someone is obligated to provide it to you.

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if your mere desire for something, anything, imposes a duty on other people to satisfy you, then they have no choice in their lives, no say in what they do, they have no liberty, they cannot pursue their happiness. Your "right" to happiness at their expense means that they become rightless serfs, i.e., your slaves. Your right to anything at others' expense means that they become rightless.







Youre first three examples are ridiculous, especially the homeless. The other two because the market suffices in supplying those in a fair manner and where they fall short socialism neatly meets their demands.

Good health is not a desire, or want. Its a basic necessity to adequately be able to provide for oneself. It is not forced slavery to need someone to mend your leg. Its altruistic to help your fellow man in that situation. Noble for us to share the load the same way we share the costs of roads and schools. To privitize something a person has no choice in purchasing ensures that they will be enslaved when they require it's services. Not by desire or choice, and the people who set prices are tacitly aware of that.

Zappa your points arnt even worth addressing because nobody expects that stuff to happen for free nor does it.




Food is not a desire, it's a need, so is heat in the winter, nice job skirting the questions


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    #22523568 - 11/14/15 05:26 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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90% of Canadians support socialized healthcare

You can cherry pick reports all day man. We have a near unanimous undying love for our Healthcare system.




WTF 90???

Where the hell are these mysterious 10%?

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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Patlal]
    #22523574 - 11/14/15 05:28 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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90% of Canadians support socialized healthcare

You can cherry pick reports all day man. We have a near unanimous undying love for our Healthcare system.




WTF 90???

Where the hell are these mysterious 10%?

I've never ever met anyone that said anything against universal health care.




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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22523580 - 11/14/15 05:29 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Skirted what. My reasoning is right there for you to see. Those are all fundementally different then ones health in that they're in the person's control. Do you need me to spell it out for you?


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    #22523586 - 11/14/15 05:31 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Do people NEED food to live? The answer is yes, and that's why you're skirting it, because you know that the logic of a fucking right being applied to all things we need and have no control over is fucking retarded.


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    #22523624 - 11/14/15 05:39 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Yes but everyone's perfectly capable of working and buying food. A 400,000 dollar bill for a heart attack however will destroy the overwhelming majority of people's lives. Dont get all mad because your shit logic doesn't hold up.


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    #22523945 - 11/14/15 07:05 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Yes but everyone's perfectly capable of working and buying food. A 400,000 dollar bill for a heart attack however will destroy the overwhelming majority of people's lives. Dont get all mad because your shit logic doesn't hold up.




Then why should everything from routine checkups to the common cold be "free", wouldn't it make more sense to limit it to major operations and whatnot paid for?

and why the fuck should I be forced to pay for some fatasses surgery who destroyed his arteries eating cheeseburgers everyday? Fact is, a lot of people's needs when it comes to medicine are preventable and yes, they do have control over it...


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22524036 - 11/14/15 07:29 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Because its for the greater good. There really is no other reason. I and 90% of Canadians have no qualms about it. Every other developed nation out there doesn't either. America's literally the only place, and it costs the states more tax dollars to run then our socialized service does while not even providing it freely. On a pure GDP basis the states spent 15.7% of its budget while Canada spent 9.9% France 10.2 and Germany 10.4 back in 2006. So honestly I have no idea what you americans are defending when it gets down to pure numbers and facts.


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    #22524043 - 11/14/15 07:31 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Because its for the greater good. There really is no other reason. I and 90% of Canadians have no qualms about it. Every other developed nation out there doesn't either. America's literally the only place, and it costs the states more tax dollars to run then our socialized service does while not even providing it freely. On a pure GDP basis the states spent 15.7% of its budget while Canada spent 9.9% France 10.2 and Germany 10.4 back in 2006. So honestly I have no idea what you americans are defending when it gets down to pure numbers and facts.




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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22524083 - 11/14/15 07:41 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

To me personally that's the dumbest rationalization americans make. In terms of hours spent waiting versus hours spent making the money to pay for the visit youre always at a loss in terms of how much time you're investing into that visit. I still don't see the appeal.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #22524178 - 11/14/15 08:05 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Yes but everyone's perfectly capable of working and buying food. A 400,000 dollar bill for a heart attack however will destroy the overwhelming majority of people's lives. Dont get all mad because your shit logic doesn't hold up.




That is what bankruptcy is for though, right?  It protects you and your home so that it doesn't destroy your life.  If that is not what its for, what is it for?  Too many restaurants and vacations?  Being irresponsible?

Not saying this is ideal, but it's not going to destroy your life...  There are protections in place for this very scenario.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: DieCommie]
    #22524216 - 11/14/15 08:16 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

In that example if bankruptcy was declared where would the debt go?


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    #22524369 - 11/14/15 08:34 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Don't know, society would have to pay for it some way.  But that is besides the point that I quoted.  Nobody's life is getting destroyed by medical debt.  Their standard of living may not be as high as they want... but that is almost always the case anyway.


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    #22524396 - 11/14/15 08:37 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

So in other words it gets shifted elsewhere, while everything non necessary is liquidated and their quality of life and credit drop dramatically. Sounds like a lose lose to me.


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    #22524431 - 11/14/15 08:40 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Shifting the burden elsewhere is exactly what you are advocating though...  Yea, they will have trouble borrowing afterwards and will have less cash.  Its a bummer, I get that.  Its not the destruction of their life, not even close.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: DieCommie]
    #22524460 - 11/14/15 08:45 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

It is. Its exactly why I don't understand why you think bankruptcy is a better alternative when socialized healthcare costs you the tax payer less and nobody needs to declare anything to use it.


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    #22524495 - 11/14/15 08:48 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I never said it was.  I'm calling you out on your exaggeration and sensationalist framing of bankruptcy.  Having medical debt (which often doesn't even need bankruptcy) does not destroy anybody's life.  You either lack perspective on what a real destroyed life is, or you are engaging in hyperbole to make a point.  (I'm guessing its the latter.)


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    #22524519 - 11/14/15 08:51 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I'm being hyperbolic but I'm sure you understand the points I'm making none the less.


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    #22524552 - 11/14/15 08:56 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I understand most of them, and agree with some of them.  I hope you understand the point I tried to explicitly make and don't read more into it than that.  Medical debt is not hard to get discharged and it often does not affect one's credit the same as "regular" debt.  If I got a 400k bill without insurance, I would simply not pay it.  Not much else would happen.


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    #22524927 - 11/14/15 09:30 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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To me personally that's the dumbest rationalization americans make. In terms of hours spent waiting versus hours spent making the money to pay for the visit youre always at a loss in terms of how much time you're investing into that visit. I still don't see the appeal.




Fair enough, you're fine with elected politicians making your medical choices and decisions. Good for you. Plus, I'd rather work my ass off and enjoy my money than have it go to people that make poor health choices...

So here in America, if a person goes to the gym, eats right, doesn't smoke and takes care of themself can get a much lower premium than the guy who drinks, smokes, and is lazy and obese. In Canada, both would pay the same for healthcare, and you think that's fair, correct?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22524967 - 11/14/15 09:37 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

In Canada the person who makes more would pay more.

I think a good way to sell single payer health care to people who like meritocracy is to tie the funding to things like precooked food and restaurants, alcohol, tobacco and other dangerous activities like high impact sports and bad driving.  That works the incentive to live healthy into the system while still making sure everybody gets covered.  Because lets face it, Americans are fat and gluttonous.  Even with a single payer Canada like system our cost would be higher than there percentage of their GDP.


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    #22525037 - 11/14/15 09:50 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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n Canada the person who makes more would pay more.





Wow, really? Is that some sort of new math?

Didn't really think I had to spell out the part aboot making similar wages... Next time I'll include some pictures for you too, maybe a pie chart(no that's not food)


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    #22525096 - 11/14/15 10:00 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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To me personally that's the dumbest rationalization americans make. In terms of hours spent waiting versus hours spent making the money to pay for the visit youre always at a loss in terms of how much time you're investing into that visit. I still don't see the appeal.




Fair enough, you're fine with elected politicians making your medical choices and decisions. Good for you. Plus, I'd rather work my ass off and enjoy my money than have it go to people that make poor health choices...

So here in America, if a person goes to the gym, eats right, doesn't smoke and takes care of themself can get a much lower premium than the guy who drinks, smokes, and is lazy and obese. In Canada, both would pay the same for healthcare, and you think that's fair, correct?




:youseethisshit:

You let your elected politicians make your choices and decisions all the time. The fuck kind of rational is that

And so what? None of us have a problem with the few bad apples you're describing. For the most part it is a perfectly fair and reasonable setup yet you act like they're personally gonna be clawing vast sums of money out of your pocket. The truth is that implemented correctly you'd be paying less, signifigantly less.

And no commie. That's not really a sound defense of privitized healthcare. America's overall health is comparable to Canadas.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22525722 - 11/14/15 11:43 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I wouldn't say healthcare is a 'right', and neither is food. We are privileged to live in a society which is capable of providing those things to everyone. The way I see it, society is more functional when we pull together to ensure these things. It really comes down to priorities of society at large. Do we find it ethical to have a society which produces billionaires off the backs of labor, but allows children (and adults) to starve or go without healthcare?

Some people are fine with letting people die of easily curable diseases, and some are not. Some are ok with letting people starve, in an effort to concentrate wealth and produce billionaires, others are not. That's really what it comes down to. If the majority elects to provide healthcare to all at the expense of producing a billionaire class, then healthcare can be made a right of citizens. It is not an innate right, however, and i don't really see how anyone can argue that it is.

I don't believe any right is innate. Rights are decided by society at large.

From an economic and ethical standpoint, universal healthcare only makes sense. The only people who actually understand this topic that don't support public healthcare are those who benefit from the plight of the misfortunate in this system. Most of us do not benefit in any way from the current healthcare system. It creates instability in society, and it is incredibly inadequate by virtually any measure you choose to observe.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22526382 - 11/15/15 06:39 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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You let your elected politicians make your choices and decisions all the time. The fuck kind of rational is that




Yep, and I vehemently oppose it, if you've read anything I've posted besides this, you would see that. I don't want a nanny state, most Americans don't. Letting govt control our lives is not what being a free society is all about. You obviously didn't read any of the links I posted because if you had, you would know that many Canadian doctors are opening PRIVATE practices and their clients are loving it. Proof that a free market based system, is better, more efficient, and more adaptable than all this "one size fits all" single payer BS. Are we not all unique individuals? Than why shouldn't our healthcare reflect that?

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A 2005 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a Quebec law that banned private insurance.




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“When we change the system to allow competition, wait lists will go away.”




http://www.medibid.com/blog/2012/07/paying-a-doctor-for-care-still-illegal-in-canada/

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What’s driving all that growth in private clinics?
Dr. Brian Day, the owner of private Cambie Surgery Centre and former president of the Canadian Medical Association says the proliferation is a function of the inability of the public system to meet demand.
Echoing an oft-stated belief that two-tier health care works well in the United Kingdom and Australia, Day says that “out of every developed country on earth, Canada is the only one where the government is trying to deliver all the health services. … Some competition is good for the public system




http://m.cmaj.ca/content/183/8/E437.full

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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
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You let your elected politicians make your choices and decisions all the time. The fuck kind of rational is that




Yep, and I vehemently oppose it, if you've read anything I've posted besides this, you would see that. I don't want a nanny state, most Americans don't. Letting govt control our lives is not what being a free society is all about. You obviously didn't read any of the links I posted because if you had, you would know that many Canadian doctors are opening PRIVATE practices and their clients are loving it. Proof that a free market based system, is better, more efficient, and more adaptable than all this "one size fits all" single payer BS. Are we not all unique individuals? Than why shouldn't our healthcare reflect that?

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A 2005 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada struck down a Quebec law that banned private insurance.




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“When we change the system to allow competition, wait lists will go away.”




http://www.medibid.com/blog/2012/07/paying-a-doctor-for-care-still-illegal-in-canada/

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What’s driving all that growth in private clinics?
Dr. Brian Day, the owner of private Cambie Surgery Centre and former president of the Canadian Medical Association says the proliferation is a function of the inability of the public system to meet demand.
Echoing an oft-stated belief that two-tier health care works well in the United Kingdom and Australia, Day says that “out of every developed country on earth, Canada is the only one where the government is trying to deliver all the health services. … Some competition is good for the public system




http://m.cmaj.ca/content/183/8/E437.full

So while many doctors and patients in Canada are realizing the shortfalls of single payer, America is pushing full steam ahead for it, well, at least the blind ones are...




Lol... many? 10% or less? I thought you believed in Democracy, not minority rule! Lol

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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22527840 - 11/15/15 02:52 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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A 400,000 dollar bill for a heart attack however will destroy the overwhelming majority of people's lives. Dont get all mad because your shit logic doesn't hold up.
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if bankruptcy was declared where would the debt go?
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it gets shifted elsewhere, while everything non necessary is liquidated and their quality of life and credit drop dramatically. Sounds like a lose lose to me.



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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
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you're fine with elected politicians making your medical choices and decisions. Good for you.



You're fine with private insurance companies making your medical choices and decisions?  Their goal is to make as much as possible by giving you as little care as possible.

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you're fine with elected politicians making your medical choices and decisions. Good for you.



You're fine with private insurance companies making your medical choices and decisions?  Their goal is to make as much as possible by giving you as little care as possible.

Good for you!




:whathesaid:

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A 400,000 dollar bill for a heart attack however will destroy the overwhelming majority of people's lives. Dont get all mad because your shit logic doesn't hold up.
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if bankruptcy was declared where would the debt go?
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it gets shifted elsewhere, while everything non necessary is liquidated and their quality of life and credit drop dramatically. Sounds like a lose lose to me.



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    #22528510 - 11/15/15 05:51 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Besides. It looks like the free market bombs at delivering kids.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/12/us-health-pregnancy-idUSKCN0T10LO20151112#fE4cLCCbtrgVEwhu.97

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    #22528569 - 11/15/15 06:04 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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you're fine with elected politicians making your medical choices and decisions. Good for you.



You're fine with private insurance companies making your medical choices and decisions?  Their goal is to make as much as possible by giving you as little care as possible.

Good for you!




wow, you're either really stupid or just an asshole

anyways, the difference is I do physicals every year and can actually negotiate for the care I need, and because I actually take care of myself, my premiums are lower, thats a fact, most insurance companies, including mine, even reimburse gym memberships nowadays. under single payer, the fat slob who drinks a fifth of vodka everyday, (whose in the same wage bracket, (gotta ad that in for the other libtard)) pays the exact same for equal coverage, thats the definition of retarded...

of course this was until obowelmovementcare, now of course I have to buy a bunch of shit I don't need, and of course this has doubled my premiums...

I'd put my faith in big corporations looking out for my best interest any day of the week over some pencil neck govt schmuck, who just like obamacare, has no fucking intention of living under the same rules and regulations as they force on us...

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wow, you're either really stupid or just an asshole



I was being an asshole, but I guess you didn't realize the "Good for you!" comment was exactly what you said to Bodhi of Ankou when you were being an asshole to him.

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under single payer, the fat slob who drinks a fifth of vodka everyday, (whose in the same wage bracket, (gotta ad that in for the other libtard)) pays the exact same for equal coverage, thats the definition of retarded...



Single payer doesn't have to be that way.  In fact, I'd support a system where healthy people got a tax refund.

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I'd put my faith in big corporations looking out for my best interest any day of the week over some pencil neck govt schmuck

for "free thinkers" y'all sure are a bunch of freakin robots...



But private insurance corporations aren't looking out for your best interest, they're looking out for their bottom line!  That you actually believe they're looking out for your best interest shows what a freakin robot you are!!!


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22528794 - 11/15/15 07:10 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

It always amazes me how well trained they are. Take for example how Martin Shrekli jacked up the price of a life saving medicine from $7.50 a pill to $750 overnight or the recent merger between allergan and Pfizer. Coupled with the merger between walgreens and rightaid the medicinal landscape has essentially turned into a duoppoly. Somethings that's more a sign of economic rot rather then free market dynamism.  The only purpose of these mergers is to strengthen holds in the market and drive out competition so they can scale up prices against powerless consumers. You seriously think they value your life over your pocket?

B-b-but muh free markets would never betray me!

Dont even get me started about how ridiculously overpriced simple operations are in your country, or all the horror stories I'll seriously have no trouble pulling up. Your Free-market™ rhetorics nothing more then some cheap platitude they've successfully sold to you.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22528804 - 11/15/15 07:11 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Yes but everyone's perfectly capable of working and buying food. A 400,000 dollar bill for a heart attack however will destroy the overwhelming majority of people's lives. Dont get all mad because your shit logic doesn't hold up.




Then why should everything from routine checkups to the common cold be "free", wouldn't it make more sense to limit it to major operations and whatnot paid for?




So people will get them.  Preventative care saves money, regardless of who pays the bil.

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and why the fuck should I be forced to pay for some fatasses surgery who destroyed his arteries eating cheeseburgers everyday? Fact is, a lot of people's needs when it comes to medicine are preventable and yes, they do have control over it...




Subsidizing a single payer model with junk food and other sin tax sounds good to me.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: paperbackwriter]
    #22528932 - 11/15/15 07:35 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Subsidizing a single payer model with junk food and other sin tax sounds good to me.




Brilliant. I wish they weren't called 'Sin' taxes, but these sort of taxes should be used to fix the problems associated with them. This is a great way to handle the problem HU has with single payer though.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: paperbackwriter]
    #22529066 - 11/15/15 07:46 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Twelve-Year-Old Died In 2007 From Abscessed Tooth After His Family's Medicaid Lapsed

 Seventeen-Year-Old's Insurance Revoked After He Tests HIV Positive.
 
 Woman Denied Coverage For Breast Cancer Because She Wasn't Diagnosed At Correct Clinic

 Forty-Five Thousand Americans Die Every Year Due To Lack Of Insurance.
 
 Study Found That In 2010, Three Americans Died Every Hour From Lack Of Insurance.


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and why the fuck should I be forced to pay for some fatasses surgery who destroyed his arteries eating cheeseburgers everyday? Fact is, a lot of people's needs when it comes to medicine are preventable and yes, they do have control over it...




And this little gem right here. What happens when they default on that debt? Oh yeah, you pay for it anyways. 'Murica


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #22529089 - 11/15/15 07:49 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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And this little gem right here. What happens when they default on that debt? Oh yeah, you pay for it anyways. 'Murica




:laugh2:

It's funny because it's true!

Also...


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22529103 - 11/15/15 07:51 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Subsidizing a single payer model with junk food and other sin tax sounds good to me.




Brilliant. I wish they weren't called 'Sin' taxes, but these sort of taxes should be used to fix the problems associated with them. This is a great way to handle the problem HU has with single payer though.




that won't fix the other problems I've addressed though...

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Single payer doesn't have to be that way.  In fact, I'd support a system where healthy people got a tax refund.




but its not, I'd love a tax refund for being a healthy MOFO, but thats not the way its set up, until then, fuck you, fuck you, you cool, and fuck you!


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22529120 - 11/15/15 07:54 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Melts

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    #22529170 - 11/15/15 08:00 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Melts

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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22535087 - 11/16/15 09:26 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)



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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Shroom Detective]
    #22535271 - 11/16/15 10:07 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Your signature violates rule #2 of this forum.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #22545714 - 11/19/15 08:55 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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In that example if bankruptcy was declared where would the debt go?




Do you really not know how bankruptcy works?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22545877 - 11/19/15 09:33 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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In that example if bankruptcy was declared where would the debt go?




Do you really not know how bankruptcy works?



Uncompensated care ends up on the hospitals / doctors, who then pad the bills of those with insurance to cover the loss.  Some of it is paid for by taxpayers to make sure all the hospitals do not close up and disappear.

I am surprised the Emergency Room law which forces hospitals to treat anyone who arrives is not on the Repubitards agenda for repeal.  Let the loafers die off already.

Federal payments for uncompensated care is being reduced to hospitals because the ACA will result in fewer uncompensated cases.  So the states the refuse to expand Medicaid are going to start to feel the pain as their rural hospitals go bankrupt.  Nothing like screwing the poor for no good reason, thanks Repubs!


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: fivepointer]
    #22546434 - 11/19/15 11:53 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Bodhi of Ankou said:
In that example if bankruptcy was declared where would the debt go?




Do you really not know how bankruptcy works?



Uncompensated care ends up on the hospitals / doctors, who then pad the bills of those with insurance to cover the loss.  Some of it is paid for by taxpayers to make sure all the hospitals do not close up and disappear.

I am surprised the Emergency Room law which forces hospitals to treat anyone who arrives is not on the Repubitards agenda for repeal.  Let the loafers die off already.

Federal payments for uncompensated care is being reduced to hospitals because the ACA will result in fewer uncompensated cases.  So the states the refuse to expand Medicaid are going to start to feel the pain as their rural hospitals go bankrupt.  Nothing like screwing the poor for no good reason, thanks Repubs!




Republicams do a lot of grandstanding. They cut off their nose to spite their face. The fact of the matter is, it is law, and they should take the money that is given them. Their grandstanding hurts their naive constitutents who don't know any better but to vote for them because of their 'christian values' (which apparently include fucking hookers and smoking pot, or even using cocaine, in many instances).

Apparently zappa doesn't understand that whether or not a patient pays for their care, it is always paid for, one way or another. If they don't have insurance, it comes out of zappa's ass when he goes to the doctor, or when he pays his taxes.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22547131 - 11/19/15 02:42 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Laws can be changed and Obamacare is probably the biggest reason why Republicans control the House, The Senate and most state governorships and legislatures.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22547158 - 11/19/15 02:47 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

ahhhh, mid-terms.

business as usual.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22547664 - 11/19/15 04:38 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Laws can be changed and Obamacare is probably the biggest reason why Republicans control the House, The Senate and most state governorships and legislatures.




Yeah, I guess there are a lot of single-issue idiot voters in this country. I think it has a lot more to do with gerrymandering than anything else, though.

At least Republicans won't be taking the white house any time in the foreseeable future. Fortunately, this time around that will have a lasting affect on the Supreme Court also.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #22548024 - 11/19/15 05:42 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Laws can be changed and Obamacare is probably the biggest reason why Republicans control the House, The Senate and most state governorships and legislatures.




Yeah, I guess there are a lot of single-issue idiot voters in this country. I think it has a lot more to do with gerrymandering than anything else, though.

At least Republicans won't be taking the white house any time in the foreseeable future. Fortunately, this time around that will have a lasting affect on the Supreme Court also.




Liberal excuses for the rejection of their failed policies...

Tell ya what, if republicans don't take the White House next election, I'll ban my self from the political message boards here on shroomery... Deal?


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22548198 - 11/19/15 06:24 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

It will be interesting to see the massive back peddle on repealing the ACA if the Repubs win the White House.  Once millions of people realize they have lost affordable health insurance due to Republicans they might be angry enough to never vote R again.

Rs are not stupid, they talk a lot but deliver little.


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    #22548210 - 11/19/15 06:27 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Rs are not stupid, they talk a lot but deliver little.




Republicans are fucking stupid, and neither party delivers shit.


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Re: Losing my health insurance again [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22548250 - 11/19/15 06:38 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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zappaisgod said:
Laws can be changed and Obamacare is probably the biggest reason why Republicans control the House, The Senate and most state governorships and legislatures.




Yeah, I guess there are a lot of single-issue idiot voters in this country. I think it has a lot more to do with gerrymandering than anything else, though.

At least Republicans won't be taking the white house any time in the foreseeable future. Fortunately, this time around that will have a lasting affect on the Supreme Court also.




Liberal excuses for the rejection of their failed policies...

Tell ya what, if republicans don't take the White House next election, I'll ban my self from the political message boards here on shroomery... Deal?




Lol! I'm going to hold you to that, buddy!


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