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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

patrice

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3. The problem with that is that it is an anti-Prevention model, right? TTE, "We'll pay for only

Reply to Dyedinthewoolliberal (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 9, 2013, 01:18 PM

Feb 2013

the worst stuff", so maintenance and prevention get "put on the back burner", so the system ends up only treating the worst, most likely non-recoverable conditions, which will drive the poor out of the market, which will drive the price of everything up for those who do have the resources to pay and who can and WILL pay ANYTHING since they are under mortal threat, so prices will go up and up and up . . . .

You'll have people dying in the darkened cold corners of what is left of the middle-class and in the streets.

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