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rgbecker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 10:03 PM Original message |
Medicare for all with a "Private Option"! |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. Coverage for preventative medicine. |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. Be careful what you wiush for. Why do you think most people on Medicare buy a suplemental |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 10:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. 80% is what many private plans pay. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 11:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. ?? That's the usual rate for private ins. too. Most of us don't expect 100% |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:12 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. But all the private plans have a max out of pocket. Medicare doesn't! |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:27 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. EXPANDED AND IMPROVED MEDICARE FOR ALL has a cap for out of pocket: ZERO. |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:52 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Gee, thanks for all the compliments! I'm thinking about what would be best for Americans! |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 01:04 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. So you'd rather have private health insurance, is that what you are saying? |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 02:09 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. NO! I'm saying Medicare is not good enough alone. |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 10:58 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Expanded and IMPROVED medicare for all. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. The UK has a national health service model with a private option |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
4. 12. Something more than the dog-eat-dog Rat Race to unite Americans into something called America. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. 13. Something for us to give to our children and to their children and to theirs . . . |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
7. 14. Sustenance for the American entrepreneurial spirit. |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
10. Saves 300 billion a year in eliminated waste |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
11. Allows doctors to heal patients instead of fighting with insurance companies to heal and get paid |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
12. Saves community hospitals |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:21 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Forces conservatives of both parties to vote against MEDICARE for ALL |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
14. Largely eliminates insurers including thier abuses, past, current and future |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
15. Frees up medical profesionals who work for insurance co's to see patients again |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
16. Stops doctors from retiring because they are sick of working in a broken system |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
17. Greatly reduces inequities in healthcare access for women, non-white, and rural americans |
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PHIMG (814 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
18. By expanding Medicare we Save Medicare |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-10-10 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
20. Lather, rinse, repeat. n-t |
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