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TheRickles

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9. Great summary - thanks. But maybe when Trump has annexed Canada as our 51st state

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Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:10 PM

Dec 22

Their model will spread to the other 50. (probably not, but it's an interesting thought.....)

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The best health care system in the world [View all] snot Dec 22 OP

Ours evolved rather than was designed Turbineguy Dec 22 #1

"Evolved" implies improvement. Siphoning patient $s to non-medical capitalists is not an improvement. erronis Dec 22 #4

Agree. Codifer Dec 22 #10

Any other system would help the poor and fail to enrich the wealthy. BadgerMom Dec 22 #2

Excellent OP - preach. nt TBF Dec 22 #3

100% this! pandr32 Dec 22 #5

IIRC LogDog75 Dec 22 #6

Thank you Dick Nixon WOLFMAN87 Dec 22 #7

There is a tape. Blue Full Moon Dec 22 #18

The other guy WmChris Dec 22 #22

There is no SYSTEM in the U.S. elleng Dec 22 #8

No system but a set of laws and regulations AlexSFCA Dec 22 #14

Great summary - thanks. But maybe when Trump has annexed Canada as our 51st state TheRickles Dec 22 #9

Signature mamacita75 Dec 22 #20

Thanks. "Cowgirls" is a classic, and deservedly so. TheRickles Dec 22 #21

Still, ACA was a massive improvement AlexSFCA Dec 22 #11

K/R. Michael Moore's recent article on the US Heathcare Industry: appalachiablue Dec 22 #12

Thank Joe Lieberman... Grumpy Old Guy Dec 22 #13

Bingo!! Lieberman was a shameless sock puppet for the insurance industry. MMBeilis Dec 22 #16

Remember death panels? Farmer-Rick Dec 23 #23

and the "patient portals" that keep them from having actual humans answering phones, scheduling and Rx's. Evolve Dammit Dec 22 #15

YES snot Dec 23 #30

"...but for our lack of political will." J_William_Ryan Dec 22 #17

But snot Dec 23 #31

We need national healthcare. Beck23 Dec 22 #19

One risk pool is a health care system. Multiple risk pools is an investment scheme. Ron Green Dec 23 #24

The Preamble says... GiqueCee Dec 23 #25

The good news is the entire House and a third of the Senate is elected every 2 years and of course the POTUS every 4 - walkingman Dec 23 #26

I'm interested in an organization called Represent.Us - snot Dec 23 #32

Started with the DixieCrats IbogaProject Dec 23 #27

I'm going full-on Pollyanna with healthcare and current destructive policies of TSF duhneece Dec 23 #28

Your function is to produce wealth and push it all up the pyramid before you die. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 23 #29

We have the best healthcare system in the world if you can afford it. Northern_Light Dec 23 #33

My DH is a mechanic; he fixes hospital equipment Bettie Dec 23 #34

Better at being worse: Our old pre-Obamacare system. Festivito Dec 23 #35