Mac1958
Diamond Member
Total lie.Mac., are you for socialized medical care? Health care for everyone. With a coupld of twists?
If so, cool. You always do seem a little reasonable. But your buddies are gonna be mad.
I generally end up pissing off both ends of the spectrum at some point, which I consider to be a very good sign.
What I want is to significantly lower the cost of health care delivery, maximize access and maintain quality. And a public/private partnership can do that.
Those who scream about "socialized medicine" and "freedom" either don't or won't understand how much extra they are paying for their "freedom" because Rush doesn't get into that. The inability of millions of Americans to access preventive and diagnostic services is costing us a ton and damaging the system.
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They have all the access they want...Nobody is physically preventing anyone from getting anything....They merely have to pay for services rendered.
A lot of this would go away if the pimps for socialized medical services would just admit that they're total cheapskates.
"They just have to pay for services rendered." Oh, that's all.
Okay, so we're going to pretend that millions of Americans don't avoid getting preventive and diagnostic services done because they can't afford it. We're going to ignorethat many people can't get health insurance because they can't afford it, can't pass underwriting or both. We're going to pretend that these people can just write a check for services rendered.
We're also going to ignore the fact that the diseases and conditions that many people have could have been treated much more cost-effectively if they had been caught earlier if those people could have had access to preventive and diagnostic services.
You're goddamn right I'm a cheapskate. I'm sick and tired of paying vastly inflated health care premiums and costs, inflated due to the fact that I'm paying for other people's treatment. Inflated due to the fact that so many people can't afford preventive and diagnostic services and end up costing system and me far more than they should.
If you want to keep chanting "socialism", quoting Rush and paying a shitload more than you should be for health care, that's your call. I'm a cheapskate, and I think this simple-minded lunacy.
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