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2016 Postmortem

Bernardo de La Paz

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2. Ancient chinese practice: pay doctor only while you are healthy. Incentive to get you healthy again.

Reply to Bolo Boffin (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 06:29 AM

Sep 2013

I don't know if it is historically accurate to assert that in ancient China people would pay their doctors only when they were healthy, but I have heard it (read it) before.

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Fox News: Obamacare is just the redistribution of wealth! [View all] tecelote Sep 2013 OP

Is this the deal about healthy people paying for the sick people? Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #1

Ancient chinese practice: pay doctor only while you are healthy. Incentive to get you healthy again. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2013 #2

That would be called woo. postulater Sep 2013 #4

Traditional Chinese medicine is certainly chock full o' woo. So is chiropractic, of course. enki23 Sep 2013 #11

Absolutely! It is only the direction of the redistribution that bothers them. Laelth Sep 2013 #3

Yes. As if the wealth wasn't redistributed from the 99% to the 1%. Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2013 #5

When Shrub did it was Robbery, and they revered it. orpupilofnature57 Sep 2013 #6

Concentrate The Wealth (TM)..... Mustellus Sep 2013 #7

So basicly Fox News is saying that 'Obamacare' is a war on the GOP's War on the Middle Class. Snake Plissken Sep 2013 #8

Well said, Cryptoad Sep 2013 #9

As long As titanicdave Sep 2013 #10

A friend just emailed this from Romney's campaign... tecelote Sep 2013 #12

Not to validate the talking point... MyshkinCommaPrince Sep 2013 #13