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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:29 PM Original message |
Why can't the solution just be simply: open Medicare to anyone to buy into? |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. Where's the profit for the insurance industry? |
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salguine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Exactly, which is why it won't happen. |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. What you want a simple effective proven solution? Good luck with that. Obama made it |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. Medicare for all would have been the most simple and effective way to go. |
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iceman66 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. Good question! |
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walldude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
5. Been saying this for months.. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. But..but..who would bribe...er..donate to..the politicians? |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. Too straightforward and no corporate profits... |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. because the politician's future employers in insurance and pharma |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
10. Because a FUCKING medical corp would be cut out... |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
11. Because that's "single payer" and Max Baucus took that off the table before |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 08:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. I see Medicare-for-All and Single Payer as two different things. |
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REACTIVATED IN CT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
12. Because providers don't like the Medicare reimbursment rates. |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. Health Care Reform has badly needed a name (besides "Health Care Reform"); |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
14. We will need to federalize the licensing of medical professionals in order to do this. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
15. It would take away the corporate person's rights to those customers |
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fmlymninral (42 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
16. you do realize |
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alc (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
17. because of who would buy into it - at least initially |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Or, the way I look at it is, |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
18. Medicare needs a little reforming (real reforming) before it goes to the general population |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
19. They'd need to offer high deductible plans |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
21. Because We the People don't rule through elected representatives anymore. We are wholly owned |
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alberg (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
22. K&R! |
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rateyes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
23. If they did that, I would even support mandates with supplements |
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bunkerbuster1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
24. Because it's simple, and it could be passed through reconciliation |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 08:49 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. True, Dem Leadership has ZERO incentive to change that system. |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 09:55 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. The big problem is doing what's right for the citizens means they lose their campaign warchest |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
27. That would mean putting the welfare of the people over the wants of the corporations. Not happening. |
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