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View original postIf you could stop that, costs would go down whichever system you choose.
View original postthe problem is that there are financial reasons to deny health coverage to individuals. as long as insurance companies get to call the shots on who gets treated and how much their coverage entails, we will always have a fucked up health system in America. instituting a single payer system guarantees complete coverage for everyone, no matter their situation. it even covers people like the couple named in the article. if an American couple went on vacation in Canada and had the same situation, i highly doubt they would be stuck with a million dollar medical bill.
Obama's original health care plan called for a public option for insurance and increased regulation, including price controls. Either one of those factors could have substantially reduced healthcare costs for most Americans. Unfortunately, Obama caved in to pressure from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, so neither is present in the ACA.
Canadian couple considering bankruptcy after $1 million bill for US hospital stay
- 20/11/2014 07:56:18 PM
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Let's embrace the health care system that failed to diagnose a high risk pregnancy!
- 21/11/2014 01:23:21 AM
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I have never particularly liked you, but I didn't realise you were this hateful
- 21/11/2014 05:48:11 PM
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Well, then I see no point to not telling you that Santa Claus isn't real. Sorry.
- 22/11/2014 01:11:03 AM
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Absolute mindblowing insanity.
- 21/11/2014 05:49:25 PM
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How can you say they did precisely the right thing, when you don't know precisely what they did?
- 22/11/2014 01:15:32 AM
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So here's a question....
- 21/11/2014 10:34:55 PM
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Reasonable bills should be paid.
- 22/11/2014 12:26:14 AM
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My only criticism is the couple's refusal to accept aid.
- 22/11/2014 02:08:28 AM
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This case does littel to nothing to advance the argument on health care
- 24/11/2014 04:41:13 PM
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Well
- 29/11/2014 05:05:10 PM
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not saying it isnt an issue just that it has nothing to do with obama care
- 30/11/2014 01:38:53 PM
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Ah.
- 30/11/2014 09:32:54 PM
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I widsh this country could have a real discussion on healthcare reform
- 30/11/2014 11:52:15 PM
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Seems to me the problem is with the 'doctors getting sued' issue.
- 23/11/2014 07:27:07 AM
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nope. but thanks for playing!
- 25/11/2014 11:01:10 PM
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This is partly the President's fault.
- 30/11/2014 03:45:01 AM
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Nevertheless, he is right - no country with a single payer system has a tort system like the USA's.
- 30/11/2014 10:23:43 PM
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I only know Louisiana torts, but malpractice damages are capped at 500,000 in this state.
- 02/12/2014 04:17:05 AM
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