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Healthcare In America.....

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ikke:
The healthcare debate is better then most tv shows.


I don't see why they have to make a public option when they can just give current companies stricter rules and fines if they don't follow them.

virtuoso:

Won't it result in bigger tax rises? I think the answer to that is yes, secondly Obama has already been in talks, secret talks at that with the pharmaceutical industry to assure them presumably that the government won't look for cheaper products or indeed negotiate for heavier discounts. Thirdly too much emphasis goes into medicines and nowhere near enough attention is focused on prevention. It's laughable for instance that alternative medicines are so heavily shunned and yet Vioxx was warmly embraced onto the market and is estimated to have killed some 100,000 people!. Fourthly how much money is already wasted from providing free health care to the tens of millions of illegal immigrants?. Is it really a good idea for the government to be taking over the health sector to? from what I have read medicaid is basically bankrupt so does that mean that resources will be allocated on the basis of age? are we to simply accept that old people being less economically active should be starved of resources? The idea that the NHS in England works wonderfully well is bullshit add into that mixture that there is the looming spectre of 10% cuts which will mean rationing out health care. The democrats and the republicans share the same bed as the pharma giants. This is not the wonderful present which they are portraying it to be and with America basically completely and utterly bankrupt, how the fuck is this even going to work?. So from what I understand of it, taxes will be raised to pay for something, which is fixed around playing best friends with the pharmaceutical industry, in turn the health care could actually get much worse. That just sounds like the type of change which leaves people with pennies left in their pocket.

Mr. O:
Public option is a good thing...however..if everyone pays the equal amount...fuck that...it will affect someone like Sik or anyone doing medical career like me.  These doctors won't be making money for doing some surgery operations.

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