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Related: About this forumRand Paul’s Solution For Lowering Health Costs: Have Patients Pay In Cash
During an appearance on MSNBCs Morning Joe on Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) declared, capitalism has not been tried yet in health care, and suggested that enrolling more Americans in high-deductible health plans would lower health care costs.
While addressing the moral imperative to ensure that low-income Americans can afford health insurance, Paul explained that his experience in his own medical practice highlights the wisdom of high-deductible, consumer-driven plans, or forgoing insurance altogether and paying in cash:
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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/09/20/878951/rand-paul-high-deductible/
louis-t
(23,295 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)pay cash for that emergency operation; but you have to wait tell we agree upon a price.
If you die before we agree ... hey, nothing lost; no cost incurred.
If we agree on a price and you end up not being able to pay the fairly agreed upon price; I own you and your off-spring until the debt is made whole.
Ain't the free market great?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... have a certified scale on the premises.
you're just too much!
bongbong
(5,436 posts)include coverage for skin bronzer?
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)where Jeff tried to sell Lassie to pay for an operation for his mother. It was very sad. I guess that's the kind of world this bozo wants; one where little boys have to sell their dogs so their mothers won't die.
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)I think we should all pay in chickens, goats, and sheep.
brightertomorrow
(122 posts)What should they do then?? Die??
SDjack
(1,448 posts)Rand has never been without support, so he will never understand how stupid his suggestion is.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)I'll just reach into the drawer where I keep all the money that corporations keep sending me and.... oh, wait...
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I could not see him, because he would not take cash.
I was flabbergasted. His office ladies gave me some line of BS that I did not understand.
CASH MONEY is NOT taken in his office as Legal Tender. He's probably a right wing asshole anyway. I went elsewhere.