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Originally Posted by Joshua G
despite my right-of-center leanings, i believe in single payer exactly because of this...healthcare is defacto a monopoly/oligopoly model, with pointless financing mechanisms like insurers & them making profits for bankrolling a severely price gouged procedure, or drug, just absurd to let the private sector ransack a persons health needs with giant profits. our health system is like the cable TV model on steroids.
one of my big obama letdowns was when he never fought for the public option. shameful, & it was democrats that killed it in the senate...max baucus, specifically.
...gotta get to single payer, with a private mechanism for moneyed people that can pay for primo care.
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Icing on the cake is he had just had his whole income tax return ate up by Obama care fines. I think the fines will eventually be the nail in the coffin for it. At his age health insurance was the last thing on my mind. The company he worked for last year actually provided insurance but he missed the deadline for signing up for it so he went without it all year. Lost his job around the first of the year, hit with Obama fines and a $30,000 hospital bill. Needless to say he's not a fan of Obamacare.