Psilynut2 said:

    I'm genuinely curious , besides  selling people a pipe dream of eliminating health private insurance What has Bernie actually done or accomplished for the people ?

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Enlil said:

He didn't say anything about universal healthcare.  He said eliminating private health insurance is a pipe dream

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Psilynut2 said:

I see his lips moving , what did he actually do though  ?

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Oh, right. Nobody is trying to do that, or ever was.

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Psilynut2 said:

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Oh, right. Nobody is trying to do that, or ever was.

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      Sanders co sponsored  a bill in 1993 called the American health care security act  that attempted to do just that .
It would have made the federal govt solely responsible for collecting and administering  all funds .

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It says private insurers can't duplicate benefits covered under the program.  Anything not covered already is fair game.  That doesn't sound like the abolition of private insurance to me.

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For the last 20 years, the [BC] Government did not enforce the impugned provisions and turned a blind eye to the operation in BC of private clinics such as Cambie Surgeries Corporation. It cited the long wait times and the excess surgical capacity physicians had available as justification for non-enforcement. Consequently, British Columbians with the ability to pay have had access to private surgeries over the last two decades.

However, in 2018, the Government reversed course and began fining physicians who operated in dual public-private practice. It targeted physicians who provided publicly-available health care services privately at a cost.

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It says private insurers can't duplicate benefits covered under the program.  Anything not covered already is fair game.  That doesn't sound like the abolition of private insurance to me.

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  I dont think you understand what that term means and the effect it will have .  That  term will allow the govt  to fine insurance providers attempting to provide service to  people who have the means that don't want to wait on the public option .  They have the same thing in BC  but didn't enforce it for a long time .

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Wow... How very Republican of you. You would rather have shorter wait times for rich people, than healthcare for everyone.

There's a reason the rest of the world sees it our way

durian_2008 said:

What if you democratized medicine, so that the only qualification for having a practice was your success rate.

And, maximum success at a minimum price was the most competitive.

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ballsalsa said:

Unlicensed doctors taking advantage of rural people with few other options

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Bigbadwooof said:

ballsalsa said:

Unlicensed doctors taking advantage of rural people with few other options

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What is an unlicensed doctor?

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ballsalsa said:

Unlicensed doctors taking advantage of rural people with few other options

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Bigbadwooof said:

What is an unlicensed doctor?

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