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In reply to the discussion: Dem lawmakers call for single-payer healthcare [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)Hooey is a long standing and respected academic term describing the claims of a fraud or charlatan.
When you used this suppositional construction as an example of why single payer isn't able to work here you were definitely engaged in slinging hooey.
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""Parts of the health care industry that lawmakers want to help, like rural hospitals, could inadvertently get hurt, too. Many rural hospitals get paid so little by Medicare that they only survive on higher private insurance payments. Yet under single-payer, those payments would go away and some could not make it financially. You would not want to wipe out a third of the hospitals in Minnesota by accident, Pollack said. And you could, if payments to hospitals end up too low."
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