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SHRED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:05 AM Original message |
Republican single-payer resistance summarized: |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
1. Every time I hear "But the insurers would go out of business!" |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Realistically, insurance people would not be "out of a job". |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
21. also, as in other countries with universal healthcare, the private insurers |
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floridablue (996 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:30 AM Response to Reply #1 |
35. They are too big to fail LOL |
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ellenfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. it's always about big business and $ for repugs. eom |
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OKNancy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
3. What I don't get is when individuals talk about higher taxes |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:16 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. wronge response location :( |
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cslinger59 (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:16 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Ok here is the fear |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:24 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. You may be right about the public's willingness to accept it. |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:56 AM Response to Reply #6 |
23. i understand what you are saying, and i agree. The dems AND republicans |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. I believe people are worried that |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:03 AM Response to Reply #9 |
45. There is no "red tape" in the Canadian system |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-12-09 10:34 AM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Yeah, but single payer seems to be getting the political "cold shoulder". (n/t) |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:41 AM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Yes - especially when you also consider co-pays, deductibles, |
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cslinger59 (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
4. Speaking as somebody who is not educated enough on the subject to debate ...... |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:21 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Stifle advances? |
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cslinger59 (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Again, please don't take my comments as attacks simply because I am speaking only from.... |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:39 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Sorry, don't mean to be angry at you |
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cslinger59 (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:02 AM Response to Reply #18 |
27. Didn't take anything as angry |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:29 AM Response to Reply #13 |
34. hate to tell you, but there already are limits. you just don't know it yet |
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glarius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:57 AM Response to Reply #8 |
24. I'm a Canadian and the polls show that 93% of us want to keep our health care system! |
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cslinger59 (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:06 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Like I said anecdotal evidence from individual Canadians. |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:19 AM Response to Reply #28 |
32. It's not tough at all. You are in the minority. The majority welcomes change. We voted for it, |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:43 AM Response to Reply #24 |
40. Could you start this statement as an OP? |
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glarius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:02 AM Response to Reply #40 |
44. Here's a thread I started at another time. Use it as you wish! |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:24 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. HUH???? |
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Lisa0825 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. ah, the prosperity gospel. |
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Cassandra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. Village idiot, indeed. |
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JustABozoOnThisBus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. The Canadians I know generally like their system |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:34 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. Most of our ressearch is already government funded |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:36 AM Response to Reply #17 |
36. my husband tried to get chantix, and when we had independent health |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:27 AM Response to Reply #36 |
46. Glad to hear he's doing well. |
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OKNancy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:39 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. well, here is my selfish point of view. |
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cslinger59 (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:16 AM Response to Reply #19 |
30. Ok so I get where you are coming from I really do. |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
22. Most things the government does, it does very, very well. |
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OKNancy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
25. Oh... read this cslinger |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
33. so basically, what you are saying... is that you have gotten to a point |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:40 AM Response to Reply #4 |
39. Anyone I have spoken to who has experienced the Canadian health care system... |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:50 AM Response to Reply #39 |
42. well, it's not 'free', but i bet they don't sit in the admissions office |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
12. Also, I just had a glorious thought... |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 08:58 AM Response to Reply #12 |
26. unfortunately, that's where the money is. and if you are in it for a profit, |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:17 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Yes, and as a |
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tabbycat31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
29. I always point to fedex and UPS |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
37. Unbelievable that they are so fucked up in their thinking that they openly... |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 10:33 AM Response to Reply #37 |
47. Indeed. They openly admit that the MAJORITY of people would choose the public option. |
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lefthandedlefty (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
38. Let them go out of business |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:45 AM Response to Reply #38 |
41. A-fucking-men. N/t |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-11-09 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
43. Bingo! nt |
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