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As a Canadian reading about a recent American health care post 31 comments
guest · 7 years ago
The opposition to public health care asides the "principles" crowd is that public almost anything sucks. We whine about public schools: crowding, teacher pay, quality, restrictions on where you can go, etc. so many hear public health care and realize that there's no reason to believe it would be any better. Then there's corruption, the fact your taxes increase to pay healthcare but they take the money and remodel buildings or buy new fire equipment; or it just gets embezzled (and/or used to pay a politicians buddy's company.)
It's a cycle. The law says you can't have one price for uninsured and charge insurance a different bill. Insurance companies are free to use their size (if blue cross doesn't allow members to go to you, you lost a lot of customers,) to push around hospitals for discounts though. So if the hospital charges $3 for soap, insurance pays $2. Hospitals raise it to $6 so they get $3 from insurance. Then There's middle men, companies and reps looking for profit.
He rebelled when no one else would 15 comments
guest · 7 years ago
He still stipulates a mandatory time to be awake by (chosen at random on a whim,) and restricts people's choice in food to cake. So he's still a dictator, and from the sound of it pretty cozy with "big cake" and likely those frosting consortiums they have been trying to force out of the EU.
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