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12. You keep pretending.

Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:17 PM

Mar 2016

I'm left wondering why you are so defensive on an issue that has been shown to a cost concern for decades.

Have a good night.

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30% of all healthcare spending is waste...$750B a year..more than the military budget [View all] True Earthling Mar 2016 OP

Like the doctors that give antibiotics... scscholar Mar 2016 #1

I went to the emergency room when I broke my collar bone angstlessk Mar 2016 #2

You call it waste. moondust Mar 2016 #3

Slow down there a little bit. basselope Mar 2016 #4

Put doctors on salaries. But then the problem reverses Recursion Mar 2016 #5

Doesn't that depend on why they became doctors? basselope Mar 2016 #13

That same argument applies right now Recursion Mar 2016 #15

You'd have to read my post from earlier... basselope Mar 2016 #16

This has been known for years. HuckleB Mar 2016 #6

Yes, I can. HuckleB Mar 2016 #8

Well, sure, you can, if you don't mind ignoring the actual problem Recursion Mar 2016 #9

That doesn't change the reality of private health care bureaucracy. HuckleB Mar 2016 #10

Because you aren't actually saying anything. There's nothing to "see" Recursion Mar 2016 #11

You keep pretending. HuckleB Mar 2016 #12

And? Recursion Mar 2016 #18