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Wendell Potter@wendellpotter: While the impending economic devastation from COVID-19 is obvious (Original Post) BeckyDem Mar 2020 OP
It should have happened when Medicare was first created. BComplex Mar 2020 #1
It sure would have, yes. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #2
That may be a good result. People have been chained to their employers with only the employer's SharonAnn Mar 2020 #3
Well said, thank you. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #4
Single-Payer Healthcare will take a large expense out of a company's balance sheet Roland99 Mar 2020 #5
Lots of people are suddenly gonna be on Medicaid thanks to Obamacare Azathoth Mar 2020 #6

BComplex

(8,049 posts)
1. It should have happened when Medicare was first created.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 07:25 PM
Mar 2020

It would have saved many of us a great many headaches. It's never too late to do the right thing.

SharonAnn

(13,772 posts)
3. That may be a good result. People have been chained to their employers with only the employer's
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 08:07 PM
Mar 2020

insurance options available to them. And whatever, costs the employer chooses to saddle the employee with.

And if you have a health problem, you can't afford to leave your employer. You're truly a "slave" to them.

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
5. Single-Payer Healthcare will take a large expense out of a company's balance sheet
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:22 PM
Mar 2020

they don't get it.

Azathoth

(4,607 posts)
6. Lots of people are suddenly gonna be on Medicaid thanks to Obamacare
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:25 PM
Mar 2020

Once they get used to the idea that they can get insurance from the government and not end up in Stalin's gulags like Fox tells them, private employer-based insurance will be in trouble.

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