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Are You in Favor of a Single Payer Health Care System?

Do You Support a Single Payer Health Care System?


  • Total voters
    63
Where have you been??? The middle class has been unable to afford more than catastrophic insurance for years, and many can't afford that!!!!

That's not true though, you admit that the number only 1/6th which means 5/6 can afford including the vast majority of the middle class.

Our health care system has priced 1/6 of our people out of adequate health care.

Lets think about this a moment
What your proposing is that we change the medical care system for 100% of the people, when 16% need some form of coverage.

That doesn't make any sense.
 
Nor does the agreement over what the "right thing" is.

I think there is pretty broad agreement that Medicare needs to be cut.

And don't you forget it, sonny. We seniors vote!

But that doesn't make what you're voting for right.
Does it matter to you, if you're screwing the up and coming generations?
Haven't you already had your chance to govern, to fix things?


Except that seniors are mostly retired, so don't have employee health care any more, and nobody but no body is going to want to sell health insurance to seniors. Ending Medicare is tantamount to ending medical care for seniors.

That's not true at all, the elderly had medical care prior to Medicare, Arthur Laffer did a study on it, showing that Medicare only increased the life expectancy of seniors by 3 months for every 1000 seniors(If I remember correctly, it's been a few months since I last read it).

Remember, Medicare only started existing in 1965, there weren't wide swaths of elderly, dying in the streets, prior to that.

So, remember what you said: We vote. Suck it up.

That's equivocal to "might makes right."
Are you sure that's how you think things should run?
 
That's not true though, you admit that the number only 1/6th which means 5/6 can afford including the vast majority of the middle class.

It is true and 1/6 of the country is 50 million people. Perhaps that is inconsequential to you, it seems so. Health care cost is the leading cause of bankruptsy in this country among the middle class.



Lets think about this a moment
What your proposing is that we change the medical care system for 100% of the people, when 16% need some form of coverage.

That doesn't make any sense.

Yes, I see that you have no concept that abandoning 1/6 of our society, which keeps growing, is of no conern.
 
It is true and 1/6 of the country is 50 million people. Perhaps that is inconsequential to you, it seems so. Health care cost is the leading cause of bankruptsy in this country among the middle class.

That bankruptcy statistic was not entirely true, the main cause was people being out of work.

Yes, I see that you have no concept that abandoning 1/6 of our society, which keeps growing, is of no conern.

That's not what I said.

I said you wanted to change the whole system for 100% of the people, to address the needs of 16%.
That's insane.
 
I think there is pretty broad agreement that Medicare needs to be cut.

not by me.


That's not true at all, the elderly had medical care prior to Medicare, Arthur Laffer did a study on it, showing that Medicare only increased the life expectancy of seniors by 3 months for every 1000 seniors(If I remember correctly, it's been a few months since I last read it).

Remember, Medicare only started existing in 1965, there weren't wide swaths of elderly, dying in the streets, prior to that.

Right, and there have been no changes to medical science in the past 45 years at all, and costs have remained the same. Sure, that's it, sure.





That's equivocal to "might makes right."
Are you sure that's how you think things should run?

That's how politics work in this great country of ours.
 
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