Face it, there are limits to what can be spent on health care,

hedgehog

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Mon Aug-17-09 01:54 PM
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Poll question: Face it, there are limits to what can be spent on health care,

we will be forced into making decisions as to what to cover. What would you cut from our health care spending:

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hedgehog

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Mon Aug-17-09 01:58 PM
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1. Really? You'd cut out experimental treatments before you

cut out spending on maintaining the nuclear arsenal?

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damntexdem

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:07 PM
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2. Glad for the nukes option, but there are a few other areas to cut:

health insurer profits;
costs of playing with enrollment pools, finding reasons to deny claims, and finding excuses for recissions of coverage for costly enrollees;
costs to providers of dealing with multiple insurers; and especially
costs of for lobbying, bribes, and supporting teabagging.

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LWolf

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:08 PM
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3. Other:

I'd cut the insurance companies and their profits out.

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Motown_Johnny

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:20 PM
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4. how about we define what those limits are .....I can't answer this poll

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hedgehog

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:42 PM
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7. The poll is really meant as a sarcastic comment more than anything.

I get irritated by people saying if we cover X, then health care will be Y% of our budget. No one ever gets around to explaining why that's bad. Now I don't have the numbers, but it struck me one day to realize that while England kept rationing in place though to the late 50's, it also was running its own atomic weapons program. Did anyone ever realize someone placed building an English bomb above keeping English children fed?

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Jack_DeLeon

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:23 PM
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5. Frankly I think that once you get to a certain age life becomes a luxury...

as it gets more expensive to keep you healthy if you've spend your life doing unhealthy things.

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Laelth

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:41 PM
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6. We printed unlimited money for Iraq.

We printed unlimited money for Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy.

We printed unlimited money to bail out AIG and the banks.

We can print unlimited money for something as important as Health Care.

I am being a bit hyperbolic, but I am sure you get the point. I do not accept the premise that what we can do is limited by budget constraints. It is not.

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-Laelth

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