ulysses
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Tue Sep-09-03 08:37 PM
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health care and education - how about |
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we limit the amount doctors (or drug company CEOs!) can make to the national average pay for educators?
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Tue Sep-09-03 08:39 PM
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limit the compensation for CEOs and other corporate officers of HMOs and health insurance companies. The highest compensated CEO in Minnesota is Dr. Bill McGuire of United HealthCare.
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Tue Sep-09-03 08:41 PM
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2. I shouldn't have even included doctors, really. |
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Edited on Tue Sep-09-03 08:42 PM by ulysses
I have no inherent problem with individual wealth, and a damned good doctor saved my life when I was a kid.
edit - one wonders how quickly we'd see teacher salaries rise, though...
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Tue Sep-09-03 08:42 PM
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3. If you have a single payer system, the two |
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Edited on Tue Sep-09-03 08:43 PM by Clete
entities that get chopped from the teat are the stock holders and the fat cat executives. Everything else would be the same except that all people could get health care instead of some who are lucky enough to have access to affordable health care.
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Tue Sep-09-03 08:45 PM
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Duck before the free-market fetishists arrive, though...
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Tue Sep-09-03 08:49 PM
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5. They've been fighting a guerilla war now for about twenty |
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years. I think everyone is finding out that the lies they spread about how terrible it would be like in England and Canada are just that lies. No one cares about the commie argument either anymore. It will be a tough fight though. I think this is why I favor Dean because he and his wife as medical practitioners are particularly close to this issue as well as knowing what a dog fight the insurance companies and HMOs are going to put up.
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Tue Sep-09-03 08:56 PM
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Edited on Tue Sep-09-03 08:56 PM by ulysses
Whatever other faults Dean might have for this progressive - and they are there - I think he'd bring meaningful health care reform or damned near die trying. That'll work for me.
edit: for now. :)
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