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Zeus69

(477 posts)
42. No country in the world
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:09 AM
Feb 2020

Has ONLY government run healthcare.
Germany
England
Japan
Australia
even Denmark

...have private health insurance sectors. And many are growing.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/06/13/socialist-nordic-countries-are-actually-moving-toward-private-health-care/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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I guess people prefer overpriced health care that leaves a lot of people sick or on death's door. LonePirate Feb 2020 #1
I guess people in this country prefer freedom of choice. dware Feb 2020 #2
So you oppose everyone having health care because you think your health care quality will lessen? LonePirate Feb 2020 #5
Let me rephrase, dware Feb 2020 #6
So you'd prefer a more expensive, incomplete product over something cheaper and more comprehensive? LonePirate Feb 2020 #9
That would be up to the individual now wouldn't it. dware Feb 2020 #10
You must like throwing your money away. I hope you don't give investment advice for a living. LonePirate Feb 2020 #14
I'm not throwing my money away. dware Feb 2020 #15
.. Cha Feb 2020 #18
You're "satisfied" RhodeIslandOne Feb 2020 #24
Freedom to be scammed by private health insurers and hospitals. YOHABLO Feb 2020 #11
Freedom to choose what's best for them. dware Feb 2020 #12
Maybe you should actually read the bill and the cost analysis/funding proposal. Gravitycollapse Feb 2020 #26
Glad you only care about yourself. Gravitycollapse Feb 2020 #25
What utter bullshit. dware Feb 2020 #38
you got yours huh Blues Heron Feb 2020 #27
Yeah, I got mine because I worked my tail end off to earn them dware Feb 2020 #34
So you are on the government teat Blues Heron Feb 2020 #40
I have no problem with that, dware Feb 2020 #41
Wow. This party has changed more than I realized. KPN Feb 2020 #29
BS, dware Feb 2020 #35
I couldn't disagree more. KPN Feb 2020 #43
We'll just have to agree to disagree. nt. dware Feb 2020 #46
Poor, working class, un and underinsured people are not "choosing" to die. They. Have. No. Fucking. Magoo48 Feb 2020 #33
M4A would be one of the choices available, but it shouldn't be dware Feb 2020 #37
It's great if every citizen has the option to choose M4A. Magoo48 Feb 2020 #47
Perhaps more people would be receptive to "m4a" if they were ever told how much it would cost. George II Feb 2020 #4
No one seems to care that trillions go unaccounted for from the Defense Dept., yet YOHABLO Feb 2020 #17
Your concern will be even more important to those sick people under a second Trump term, OnDoutside Feb 2020 #30
You are spot on. dware Feb 2020 #39
I think people were almost afraid to speak up about it. When OnDoutside Feb 2020 #45
Reality. democratisphere Feb 2020 #3
I consider this progress tishaLA Feb 2020 #7
My low opinion of her just went up a tick. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #8
You and the author must not be familiar with the phrase "worst case scenario" Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2020 #13
I'm an engineer, that's in my DNA. This has nothing to do with "worst case scenario". George II Feb 2020 #16
Except those were the words she actually "said out loud" melman Feb 2020 #21
But what she's saying isn't a "worst case scenario", that's the reality of it. George II Feb 2020 #36
AOc, Sanders, Sanders staffer has all dropped that bombshell in the last couple days. krissey Feb 2020 #19
Yes. showblue22 Feb 2020 #44
What do you do when your pitch don't sell? oasis Feb 2020 #20
This is not some unknown experiment dualboy24 Feb 2020 #22
You're not wrong. subterranean Feb 2020 #32
Without a magical voter revolution, none of sanders proposals will be adopted in the real world Gothmog Feb 2020 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author jcmaine72 Feb 2020 #28
Running on it has every chance of weakening support for the ACA. ucrdem Feb 2020 #31
No country in the world Zeus69 Feb 2020 #42
Bernie's strongest electability argument for the middle would be that he is a harmless old man andym Feb 2020 #48
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