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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 03:54 PM Nov 2020

Rev Warnock: Dr. King said that out of all the inequalities, injustice in health care is the most sh


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Reverend Raphael Warnock
@ReverendWarnock

US Senate candidate, GA-Special
Dr. King said that out of all the inequalities, injustice in health care is the most shocking and the most inhumane.

Georgians need someone who will fight for their right to affordable health care.
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Rev Warnock: Dr. King said that out of all the inequalities, injustice in health care is the most sh (Original Post) soothsayer Nov 2020 OP
Dude's a mainstream Democrat. Laelth Nov 2020 #1
I agree that language matters even if I think that we're on the right track. Thanks abqtommy Nov 2020 #2
Denial of healthcare needs to be addressed in the proper terminology "EUGENICS" rwsanders Nov 2020 #3
Insurance companies have doctors on staff to make key decisions. Laelth Nov 2020 #4
Are you criticizing him for being a mainstream Democrat? murielm99 Nov 2020 #5
He is what he is. Laelth Nov 2020 #6

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. Dude's a mainstream Democrat.
Wed Nov 18, 2020, 04:02 PM
Nov 2020

When I hear that word ... “affordable” ... I start grinding my teeth.

95% of us can’t “afford” healthcare. NOBODY needs “affordable” healthcare. They need healthcare ... period, a right granted to most citizens of most of the civilized nations of the world without regard to their ability to pay.

Warnock knows his party, and he knows the right thing to say, but I would very much like it if our party would abandon its current messaging and get rid of that one word ... affordable.

-Laelth

rwsanders

(2,596 posts)
3. Denial of healthcare needs to be addressed in the proper terminology "EUGENICS"
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 12:23 PM
Nov 2020

I've also begun to wonder recently if the courts are the path to bring down the current system.

This is the idea: when someone at a insurance company denies a procedure, they have made a medical decision. They are therefore practicing medicine without a license. Even if it is a doctor who finally signs off, they have never met the patient, to me that sounds like malpractice. I think it would only take winning one case to bring down the insurance companies.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
4. Insurance companies have doctors on staff to make key decisions.
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 12:29 PM
Nov 2020

That’s how they avoid the (very reasonable) objection you raise. Yes. Insurance companies “practice medicine” on a regular basis.

-Laelth

murielm99

(30,730 posts)
5. Are you criticizing him for being a mainstream Democrat?
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 02:17 PM
Nov 2020

Those are the people who were elected, you will notice.

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