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In reply to the discussion: What Form Should US Healthcare Take? [View all]mvd
(65,173 posts)20. But the more to the right ACA gave Lieberman/Baucus control also
They could easily dismiss it. We could argue this forever because we will never know - he didn't try.
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Not necessarily. The ACA included funding to help states set up their own single-payer
pnwmom
Dec 2014
#47
He wasn't negotiating with the GOP and he knew it. He was negotiating with Lieberman and Baucus
Recursion
Dec 2014
#15
No, you're missing the huge difference. NHS means doctors work for the government.
Recursion
Dec 2014
#14
NHS isn't single payer. You can be NHS or you can be single payer. Medicare-for-all is single payer
Recursion
Dec 2014
#13
Interestingly, in Canada it's illegal to bill for any covered treatment privately
Recursion
Dec 2014
#30
And if we went to something like NHS, we'd have to figure out how to fund that, too.
pnwmom
Dec 2014
#62
And Medicare still uses private insurance companies to do the actual insuring
Recursion
Dec 2014
#22
I chose other because I know what the HS system is in Europe, and I'd LOVE to have theirs.
napi21
Dec 2014
#34
Well, first off, I don't agree that insurance companies are "in charge of everything here"
Recursion
Dec 2014
#71
NO SIR. There was NO CHARGE! He asked about what he owed, and they said nothing.
napi21
Dec 2014
#72
Fully socialist. Public health, public education, would be federally funded by income taxes.
hunter
Dec 2014
#45