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Trump is right - Health Care is too complicated - No one can do it (Original Post) packman Mar 2017 OP
Not giving your citizens free healthcare is what makes 'merca 'merca. Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #1
Half of us Americans dont want universal healthcare, because our brains are Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #2
Seven of those countries have insurance mandates Progressive dog Mar 2017 #3
Many Americans think it is radical SalviaBlue Mar 2017 #5
Yes this is why we cannot compete with these nations. Trump's failure delisen Mar 2017 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
2. Half of us Americans dont want universal healthcare, because our brains are
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 05:14 PM
Mar 2017

filled with nonsense.

Amazing.

Progressive dog

(6,900 posts)
3. Seven of those countries have insurance mandates
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 05:52 PM
Mar 2017

and nine of them have a two tier system where routine care is paid for using health savings accounts.
The US came pretty close to the insurance mandate model under ACA.
The US government is now in the hands of people who ran on repealing ACA. If they succeed, the idea may be dead for a generation or more.
Our health care costs are much higher than any country that provides universal health care. The cost increases in our health care slowed under ACA, but are still growing faster than inflation. This is unsustainable even with the ACA's limit on insurance mark ups.
Universal health care is not a radical idea, but if the last few elections are an indication, many Americans think it is.

SalviaBlue

(2,916 posts)
5. Many Americans think it is radical
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 07:32 PM
Mar 2017

Because they are part of the Faux news cult.

Truth is universal health care is not a radical idea, it is a moral imperative.

delisen

(6,042 posts)
4. Yes this is why we cannot compete with these nations. Trump's failure
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 05:53 PM
Mar 2017

on health care makes us continue to be a loser nation-unwell America trying to compete with heathy countries-so instead of addressing the problem he want to impose tariffs on more efficient countries that have universal affordable health care. He needs to roll out our single payer Universal Healthcare if he is ever going to Make America Great Again.

One interesting statistic on wellness, Kentucky, a few years ago and likely still, leads the nation in adults with missing teeth.

Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul have been mis-representing Kentucky for some time. Why do they want the people they represent to be sick, to suffer.

A workforce riddled with pain cannot compete with healthy foreign workers.It does .however. make addiction to opiates more likely.

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