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Raster

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16. It won't work with the medical system as currently structured...

Mon May 15, 2017, 12:45 PM

May 2017

...BUT WE CAN CHANGE THE SYSTEM.

Of course, some of the ENTITLED will fight tooth-and-nail to maintain their OBSCENE profit margins and some providers will do anything NOT TO ROCK their cushy financial boats.

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The reason why we don't have universal healthcare [View all] Proud liberal 80 May 2017 OP

Yeah. A lot of people are stupid. Solly Mack May 2017 #1

The best description of this I've heard recently is greymattermom May 2017 #2

Sadly you hit it, spot on. Greed and Hatefulness in America. In many ways, America is a very stupid RKP5637 May 2017 #3

the underlying reason is it's a competitive advantage for businesses, particularly big businesses unblock May 2017 #4

2 reasons why big business opposes single payer Freddie May 2017 #7

Message deleted by DU the Administrators mac56 May 2017 #10

exactly -- direct access to healthcare via the government strengthens workers' negotiating position. unblock May 2017 #12

Message deleted by DU the Administrators mac56 May 2017 #14

There is a lot more to it than that taught_me_patience May 2017 #5

If single payer paid providers fairly Freddie May 2017 #9

It won't. I prefer to have a competitive marketplace determining the pay for doctors taught_me_patience May 2017 #17

But that free market approach KatyMan May 2017 #19

I'm not comfortable with people getting bankrupted due to exorbitant medical costs. HughBeaumont May 2017 #20

Very few doctors are in solo practices today, procon May 2017 #36

So people should die? Other countries that have instituted single payer have no problem paying... Raster May 2017 #11

Your wife doesn't hate insurance companies? hunter May 2017 #21

I have multiple friends and relatives in the medical profession... ALMOST ALL OF THEM say... Raster May 2017 #23

Medicine, especially primary care medicine, is a job with a high burnout rate. hunter May 2017 #32

She doesn't like insurance companies but doesn't like medicare as well taught_me_patience May 2017 #39

Your wife won't be able to hold back the tide against electronic records. Sorry. hunter May 2017 #40

that is the secondary reason... Raster May 2017 #6

This. mac56 May 2017 #8

Because we let them buy our democracy while we were napping. Orsino May 2017 #13

It won't work in the US zipplewrath May 2017 #15

It won't work with the medical system as currently structured... Raster May 2017 #16

It's because the religious reich thinks the sick and the poor are cursed by God workinclasszero May 2017 #18

The flip side of that is that thucythucy May 2017 #28

Probably true workinclasszero May 2017 #30

That and a campaign finance system that is legalized bribery. mahina May 2017 #22

Right workinclasszero May 2017 #25

No, polls show widespread popular support for single payer Jim Lane May 2017 #24

70% of Americans support "Medicare for all" meadowlander May 2017 #26

If this were an all white country we would have had universal health care a LONG TIME AGO. Goodheart May 2017 #27

Seen this on a bumper sticker: thucythucy May 2017 #29

the #1 reason we dont have universal health care is squandering our wealth on the military, which msongs May 2017 #31

we don't need universal healthcare, LittleGirl May 2017 #33

The reason we don't have it SCantiGOP May 2017 #34

I don't agree. Demsrule86 May 2017 #35

Of course... IthinkThereforeIAM May 2017 #37

What's even crazier is that racists in other nations still would keep their healthcare. Yavin4 May 2017 #38