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Single Payer Health Systems

murphyj87

(649 posts)

6. In Canada:

Reply to nichomachus (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 13, 2012, 09:20 PM

Aug 2012

If that had happened to me, I would still have my job, ambulance, ER, surgeries, docs, hospital stay, and rehab would = $0, If my workplace wage loss insurance ran out (after 6 months), the government would pay me 55% of my wages for another 6 months.

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I'm a living example of why we need healthcare reform [View all] nightscanner59 Aug 2012 OP

Sorry for your difficulties. Yours is one story of millions. Medicare for All would be a vast... Scuba Aug 2012 #1

Yes, but if we had Medicare for all, or at least a reasonable facsimile, what... Raster Aug 2012 #3

Fuck them. Profiting on the misery of Americans elicits little sympathy from this quarter. Scuba Aug 2012 #4

I think it is pretty obvious that my post was rhetorical and sarcastic. I agree. The private... Raster Aug 2012 #5

Last year nichomachus Aug 2012 #2

In Canada: murphyj87 Aug 2012 #6

exactly why canada is looking better and better and better... nightscanner59 Aug 2012 #7

Try Pre-Existing Condition Insurance through ACA/ObamaCare dmcrane1 Nov 2012 #8