Bruddah IZ
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You mean the .pdf?
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Auto insurance doesnt pay for oil changes, or tires.
It pays for accidents, or unforseen acts of God.
In a free country, most things pertaining to life must be left to the individual.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Yikes!
Let's see, didn't Jon Gruber help Mitt Romney come up with the State of Massachusetts health reform? A program Obama modeled ACA on. Although these days it sounds like he's up at night dreaming of being saved by leaders to smart and strong to obey the will of the people.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Catastrophic. Tenacious doesn't like going granular. Neither do socialist. One size fits all. Didn't you know?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Oh hell. I'll bite. Yes.
I prefer freedom to statist conformity. I'll sign an opt out contract to any socialist mandate.
Well not according to the supreme court. Which ruled we can't just let people die on the street because they can't afford healthcare. So we're already paying for those unforeseen acts of God whether you realize it or not.
Unfortunately however, we haven't found a way to make paying for it as cheaply as our economic rivals. And it's hurting our ability to compete.
Sheriff Joe
DA
I don't understand your point, but using Romney isn't going to persuade many around here, you might as well envoke McCain.
Bruddah IZ
DA
He didn't model that. And why would you use a single State pilot for 6.2 million to craft a National program for 323 million?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Which of our economic rivals have cheaper healthcare?
Well rather then tell you... let me ask, what's the value in an economist whose theories change with the winds of politics?
Insurance is not designed to pay for maintenance, or simple repairs.
'Dying on the street" would probably qualify.
No. Name an industrialized nation that doesn't?
Maybe you can ask trump to ask Putin what they pay in Russia. I'll bet even they are paying less.
Bruddah IZ
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Budget Politics
"Back in my teaching days, many years ago, one of the things I liked to ask the class to consider was this, imagine a government agency with only two task. One, building statues of Benedict Arnold and two providing life saving medications to children. If this agency's budget were cut what would it do? The answer of course is that it would cut back on the medications for children. Why? Because that is what is most likely to get the budget restored. If they cut back on building statues of Benedict Arnold, people might ask why they were building statues of Benedict Arnold in the first place.-- Thomas Sowell. Who else?
If you want cost to come down, people need to pay for the services insurance is not designed to pay for.
I don't follow?
All I'm saying is whether we treat people via the emergency room or via healthcare- we still have to pay for it one way or another. And the do nothing (zero preventative care) let them go to the emergency room after it's blown up, hasn't shown to be very cost effective.
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I know you have a point you're trying to make. But I really can't follow. Maybe you can start at beginning and re-explain?
Wez
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Blaming the people again uh? The health industry is run like a cartel, monopoly, price fixing, you name it, it's got it, but the GOP has you convinced that somebody actually visiting the doctor once in awhile and getting something for the thousands of dollars they spend a year on insurance, is the bad guy. smh