Bo Didleysquat
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Some of us are actually aware of our hellthcare system's ranking amongst all the other post-industrial nations on the planet. Most expensive, least efficient, shittier outcomes. And that americans pay more for American pharma products than Canadians do.
As for Bloomberg, what do you expect from your aristocracy?
Anyone recall Don's hellthcare campaign promises? He doesn't.
Majorities in both houses for 2 years.
See any healthcare legislation?
Some of you believe the propaganda you're fed and think you're "actually aware" of something real.
Feel free to pick it apart point by point, here it is again:
Some of us are actually aware of our hellthcare system's ranking amongst all the other post-industrial nations on the planet. Most expensive, least efficient, shittier outcomes. And that americans pay more for American pharma products than Canadians do.
As for Bloomberg, what do you expect from your aristocracy?
Anyone recall Don's hellthcare campaign promises? He doesn't.
Majorities in both houses for 2 years.
See any healthcare legislation?
Trump said we would first repeal Obamacare, then replace it with something else. The Rino's in our Senate stopped the repeal. CommieCare is still alive and well today.
The ACA may be alive, but it's certainly not well, after a death by a thousand cuts. First Republicans cut the taxes that pay for it. Then they cut the mandate. Trump hemmed and hawed over funding the exchanges until a number of insurance companies pulled out altogether in some states. Trump also gave broad "religious freedom" to employers to exclude women's reproductive health, including birth control, from employee health insurance. And now the "pre-existing conditions" protectionss and Medicaid Expansion are being threatened in the Supreme Court where the Barr Administration will not argue in favour of the law.
I have long thought that American health care is not really "health care", it's "sick care". People don't go to the doctor until something is wrong with them. It's a good part of the reason why you're health care expenses are so high. People are really really sick by the time they get there. In the meantime, I'm getting nagged by my PCP that I'm past due for my Mammogram, and OHIP sent me a colon cancer test kit too.
I found this article useful, given our discussion of declining life expectancy in the USA:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...a65daa-4f6c-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html
Our healthcare expenses are so high because quality costs money, and the government of course.
If a person on Medicare gets a 700,000 surgery, Medicare only pays 80% of that cost. The rest, the hospital has to eat. To combat these losses, some providers are refusing new government patients. This includes Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIPS patients.
Others simply increase the cost of care so that private insurance indirectly pays for it, and we all know where private insurance gets their money from. It's the same after DumBama started his idiotic medical care plan. He placed a huge tax on medical supplies, and again, we know who has to pay for that.
Between that, lawsuits, nickel and dime processing claims, it all adds up to unaffordable healthcare for millions. As President Reagan once said, Government is not the solution of our problem--government is the problem.
See the problem with your argument here is that we have shittier healthcare outcomes in return for having the most expensive, inefficient wasteful healthcare system amongst advanced post-industrial nations. A little due diligence would go a long way if you could manage some. Reagan was an actor prattling off of a script.
Yes, when your govt represents concentrated capital and corporations as opposed to a representative govt of, by, for the people as ours is, your govt is a problem.