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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 12:32 AM Original message |
Ezra Klein: Health care doesn't keep people healthy -- even in Canada |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. Ezra Klein should get a Pulitzer for his health care articles. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 12:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. He is good isn't he? |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 01:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. no he's not, he's a fucking apologist for the system. not even always good at that. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 01:11 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. +1 |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 03:21 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. +2 nt |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 05:03 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. +3 |
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handmade34 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. good article |
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Monk06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
5. The question isn't whether equal numbers of Canadians die from the same health care. |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
7. Our system is set up in such a way it is impossible to cut costs. |
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senseandsensibility (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 01:35 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. The voice of sanity. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 01:39 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Excellent, you really should post this as an OP, I'd K&R it .. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 03:16 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. The truth of your statement makes this study even more ironic. |
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LetTimmySmoke (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 05:16 AM Response to Original message |
13. The problem is that health care is a major source of jobs. |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 05:45 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. No, it's a major money maker for wall street. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 06:06 AM Response to Original message |
15. Our health care delivery system is the worst in the industrial world |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 11:30 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Is that what you get from this? A criticism of Canadian health care? |
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xphile (565 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 11:37 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. And the conclusion is what? That because of that we should not care if some people have |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 12:34 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Obviously not. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 03:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. No, not really. But the attempt to include everyone must be considered. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
18. As with lawyers and cops, the idea is to have as little as necessary to do with "health care". |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
19. No one is saying that universal access to healthcare is ALL that is needed to keep people healthy.. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 12:46 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Funny thing is it's probably secondary. |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
20. "Health care" and "public health" aren't the same thing |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-07-11 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
24. Ezra Klein is the perfect example of what Chris Hedges calls "courtiers" |
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