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In reply to the discussion: Will SOMEBODY get honest about Universal Healthcare? [View all]ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)20. Great points thanks
I was told I "begrudge" people making money when I posted obscene salaries of health care CEO's.
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I think as the field narrows there will ve more time for sanders and warren to clearly lay out m4a.
Tiggeroshii
Sep 2019
#1
I'm for Medicare For All Who Want it but your dire prediction is over the top.
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2019
#6
Wall Street would agree. Meanwhile, the working poor and destitute are collateral damage
Ninga
Sep 2019
#38
So is the goal to punish insurance companies, or is it to get universal health care?
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#46
There's a difference between the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry.
Garrett78
Sep 2019
#50
I have traveled extensively in Europe and asked people there if they would give up their health
CTyankee
Sep 2019
#22
They know a lot about our health care. Most I talk to shudder at the thought of our type of
CTyankee
Sep 2019
#34
Other countries are used to much higher taxes. However, these are rankling workers in France,
emmaverybo
Sep 2019
#55
First, that's from 2017, more than two years ago. Second that is a 29% increase over the previous..
George II
Sep 2019
#48
And yet, the US has poorer outcomes when you see a scoring of health outcomes of other
CTyankee
Sep 2019
#84
I like to say that ours is a country that won world war II and put a man on the moon and we can't
CTyankee
Sep 2019
#35
Without a realistic path (and I'm not talking about a plan), the goals won't be reached.
gulliver
Sep 2019
#33
I agree. I would say one thing, just about any medical school grad can get loan forgiveness by
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#51
You hit the nail on the head, the head that many seem to not understand - although they are....
George II
Sep 2019
#53
There may have been some provinces that had their own systems, but once Tommy Douglas' plan passed
Fiendish Thingy
Sep 2019
#79
Speaker Pelosi-There's no need to reinvent health care -- just improve Obamacare
Gothmog
Sep 2019
#72
+1000. Trillions of dollars being switched from one part of the economy to another in just 2 years
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#81