>>>>>All those liberals want is to have health care for everyone.
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>>>>Everyone has health care. You pay for yours, I pay for mine.
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>>>And those who can't pay do what? Especially the children.
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>>I don't understand why Republicans are so scared of universal health care. The health system remains the same, but you just have a single insurer (the government) which picks up the tab for only a tiny minority of the poorest of the poor. Everyone gets a better deal since their is no big slice of profit taken out of the pie. The insurer can also negotiate huge national purchases of drugs as a discount.
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>Ah, but with all the prevention that can be done (and is done) under a
system, the savings could be enormous, the loss of work hours, diseases cured on the cheap (because they are diagnosed early) etc etc - would ruin The Market. Who would pay outrageously inflated prices for medicines? How would the
deep pockets research budgets of pharmaceutical companies be filled? How would HMOs et al take their 20% of the cake if they wouldn't exist? Who would write software to handle billing for medical services under hundreds of different opcode lists if there'd be only one list?
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>It's so much better under the current non-system, so many more people make money on it. Apart from its being disastrous to your health, it's perfect.
This reminds me.
I once worked with the head of a Emerency Department. We were designing a software package to help in producing a HMO claims. The idea was that if t he claims were more what they wanted, the more of them would be accepted. Good idea, yea. Well, everyone thought so, except the HMOs. All we spoke to found fault in the idea. Therefore, the idea fell throght the cracks, and was never spoken of again.
But.
A few years later, a company spoke to me about a peice of software they had aquired that did the just the same thing. I was amazed. But after speaking to the CEO a few times, and relating the previous story to him, he did some checking. What he found was that the government and the HMOs were watching the adventure, and had plans to crush it if showed in prosparity. And they did. I never got the contract. The company (worth millions) closed their doors. Several empoyees out of work. Clients without support for the existing software. Patients getting lousy health care because the doctors know they can not bill for what the patient needs. Darn, I love America. Were else can we pay so much for so little.
Greg Reichert