Reply #27: I think he is being intellectually honest.

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But..I think he is wrong. I lived in Oregon for 10 years so Im a little familiar with the health care landscape there. Oregon was able to expand their medicaid program to cover more people by developing the Oregon Health Plan. It was a givernment managed single payer system that was utizlied for low income Oregonians. At first when there was plenty of money in the states coffers, the program worked fine. However, when the state started suffering from a decrease in tax revenues they had to start rationing what the plan would cover and what it wouldnt and no Im not talking about viagra, breat implants etc... So I think he is just reacting to his experience in his state.

Where I think he is wrong is on the assumption that it cant work. If funded correctly it can work. We just have to be willing to increase taxes to where they need to be. I believe we should have a 2%% across the board tax increase to anyone making over 60,000 a year to fund our healthcare. There is no free lunch and this running talking about taxing soft drinks etc...is shit. Lets fund it right and get it done.


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