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TheKentuckian

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5. Health care isn't a product and if it was. Most of us just have to take

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 02:17 PM

Mar 2012

what our employers offer anyway.

This isn't a house, car, blue jeans, a TV, or even a trip to the grocery. No one knows what they need and what they want is for their needs to be met. A rational market isn't workable operating on this scale and in our predatory atmosphere.

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Matthew Yglesias: The Promise and Peril of A Single-Payer Comeback [View all] babylonsister Mar 2012 OP

Uh. Hardly. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2012 #1

Guess I'm just strange. enlightenment Mar 2012 #2

who says we trust doctors or the medical field? iemitsu Mar 2012 #3

Did you know that 100 + years ago a doctor made less than an engineer? It wasn't really considered a Hestia Mar 2012 #4

Health care isn't a product and if it was. Most of us just have to take TheKentuckian Mar 2012 #5