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In reply to the discussion: Will SOMEBODY get honest about Universal Healthcare? [View all]Garrett78
(10,721 posts)49. Health care insurance companies don't profit as much as you might think.
Especially compared to other industries. However, the pharmaceutical industry does have obscene profits. Big Pharma is ripe for criticism.
That said, I don't think health care should be a for-profit industry at all. But pushing for the elimination of private insurance is not viable at this time. We can get there, but we first need a public option.
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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