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Old 07-25-2009, 05:06 PM  
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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls View Post
Yes someone should pay for it, the hospital, not me, not you, unless we choose to.
OK, so the hospitals should pay for taking care of people who can't afford to pay. Where's this magic money going to come from? Because under your in-a-nutshell proposal there, they can't raise rates directly to YOU, they can't get it from insurance companies (it would trickle down to YOU with higher rates) and they can't get it from the govt (it would trickle down to YOU with higher taxes).

What, they should have a bake sale? I'm not saying you're necessarily WRONG, just trying to get a full picture of your logic and how it fits into the real world.

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Yes under this current plan you can keep your plan. But you can never change it. And insurance companies can not insure new people.
Again, not saying you're necessarily WRONG, and certainly not saying the "current plan" (whichever plan that may be, there are multiple ones floating around) is perfect. I haven't read every word of every proposal, but I don't remember seeing that insurance companies would not be able to take on new customers. I'm sure you'll quote something, that's fine, just make sure it comes from a neutral source and cite the source.

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Yes, its sad that people have become dependent on the government. We should slowly get rid of medicare and medicaid.
Maybe. The only real solution is to totally scrap everything about our healthcare system -- medicare, medicaid and all insurance companies -- and rebuild from the ground up, in whatever direction that may be, totally govt-run or totally free market. That obviously can't happen, so whatever we end up with, no matter what side proposes it, it's going to be a Frankenstein's monster that is going to screw SOMEBODY over. There's no avoiding that.
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