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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:13 PM Original message |
You know, there is a way to give all companies a HUGE financial advantage that costs NOTHING |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. Exactly. Make American business competitive again. |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't even think that it will put the insurers out of business. Some of them, yes. |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 06:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
25. True. They'd happily pay for "designer" insurance. |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 08:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Great - Another thing that smells like fish |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
3. Totally agree and can't understand why American business does not |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
4. Universal Single Payer Health Care |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. I knew what you were referring to without even looking |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 07:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
27. Why not, indeed? |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. Amen - Global bugeting, negotiated fees for service, negotiated drug costs, |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
7. I've been saying this for years. Take the profit motive OUT of denial of care. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. Question: what do you gain by putting another industry out of work? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. RW talking point number #1008. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 04:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. You've just proven you haven't the slightest grasp of what you are talking about. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Will you listen to some Harvard doctors then who have been studying this |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:31 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. I'd rather see industries that actually produce something |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 06:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. The insurance agency will continue to exist. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 06:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. It isn't work, it's extortion. Pay up, and you don't die. n/t |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
9. Yes, yes, and yes again. |
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ihavenobias (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. True. n/t |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
10. Well, not exactly. Any single payer universal plan is |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
13. Yup, Randi talked about this yesterday |
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mwei924 (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
15. I doubt it would cost nothing. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #15 |
30. We are already paying for it. We just don't get what we're paying for. |
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FKA MNChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
16. I used to work with a woman who was married to a radiologist |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
19. If health care has to be private, let nonprofits run it |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 05:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Single payer is private. The only thing the government does is to collect the |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
20. Absolutely right. |
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BREMPRO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
21. You've outlined the BEST arguments for USP health care in the USA. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 05:51 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I would nationalize all drug companies. |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-21-08 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
29. ... well, not exactly "all companies". |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 02:55 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. That industry will continue on some reduced form ..... |
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