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dkf

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14. Health care costs are outsized and will bankrupt this country.

Reply to theKed (Reply #13)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 03:29 PM

Mar 2013

Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance or whatever vehicle we examine, health costs in the US are the driver of insolvency for individuals and the government.

So yes this concerns me.

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The promised savings of $2500 per family in the ACA aren't supposed to happen til 2019. [View all] dkf Mar 2013 OP

I'm starting to have a 'bad feeling' about this whole thing, indeed. eom Purveyor Mar 2013 #1

I'm not ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2013 #2

Ditto here Benton D Struckcheon Mar 2013 #3

My husband and son are now insurable where they weren't before but for a family of four liberal_at_heart Mar 2013 #4

So ProSense Mar 2013 #5

I was researching Canadian health care and for some reason this popped up. dkf Mar 2013 #6

Did you ProSense Mar 2013 #7

Jake Tapper is a wingnut? dkf Mar 2013 #8

Here ProSense Mar 2013 #9

I just told you I posted the article for the comment by the Obama administration. dkf Mar 2013 #12

Did I ProSense Mar 2013 #15

I also assume ProSense Mar 2013 #10

I know it's not the same, but I'm sure you want documentation so I was trying to oblige. dkf Mar 2013 #11

You're ProSense Mar 2013 #16

If you have medicare for all but don't control costs then we all spend too much. dkf Mar 2013 #17

Why ProSense Mar 2013 #18

It doesn't now. dkf Mar 2013 #19

Your concern theKed Mar 2013 #13

Health care costs are outsized and will bankrupt this country. dkf Mar 2013 #14