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Mike 03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:40 PM Original message |
You are raising an intensely important question with respect to National Health Coverage |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. Do they do that in any of the other industrialized countries? |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Do other industrialized countries have high obesity |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. It isn't JUST about obesity |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. What if you don't want to comply and don't want to opt out? |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. good idea but that would still leave millions uninsured: |
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sentelle (659 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. Interesting question |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
6. Of course they can |
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Cerridwen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. Abortion? Contraceptives? Treatment for STDs? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. This is done in other countries but not exactly this way |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. ding ding ding |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. They can charge us more for our health coverage taxes |
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uberblonde (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
11. In other countries, doctors are paid more to keep you healthy. |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Doctors can't force patients to stop smoking |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Who is responsible for that? The truth? Not the doctors, and not the patients |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 08:06 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Cigar smokers tend to smoke far fewer per day than cigarettes |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 08:11 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Absolutely, it does start and end with the patient |
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cabluedem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 08:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I quit 29 years ago. It was hell on earth to quit, thats why most cant do it. nt |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 08:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. my mom smoked until the day she died. the doctors would tell her she need to quit, |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
18. All those things that you list are pushed by the insurance companies and |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 08:25 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. but it's easy to make that argument. people are to blame for all the problems |
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bluethruandthru (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
20. If this country is ever fortunate enough to enact a National Health Care Program |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
22. The real problem is method of enforcement. |
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