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In reply to the discussion: I am for medicaid for all [View all]Meowmee
(5,164 posts)63. I have heard the opposite
Experience is more common where they throw you out as quickly as possible. Im sure there is some of that too. Most testing done when you are ill enough to be there is needed. But I was referring more to overall costs being way too high, even when they are moderated they are very high.
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So you won't vote for a Democrat in the GE who doesn't support your policy demand?
brooklynite
Feb 2019
#1
Where do you get that figure? The overall healthcare cost in the UK for example is half of
Doodley
Feb 2019
#16
The recent $1 TRILLION tax cut for oligarchs pays for a lot of Medicare AND Medicaid nt
Doremus
Feb 2019
#43
Know any RNs? Ask them if they'll take a big pay cut. Try doctors, ambulance companies, pharmacists
Hoyt
Feb 2019
#53
It doesn't matter what it is called. What matters us that in the richest nation on the
Doodley
Feb 2019
#15
I'm not here to debate either one, but most DO like their Medicare and the administrative costs
hlthe2b
Feb 2019
#26
Many poor seniors can't afford their medicare premiums...the idea that medicare is free is nonsense.
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#48
And the poorest seniors can get Medicaid. Why do you think that the people who don't
pnwmom
Feb 2019
#60
I thought we were talking about Medicare for all...and not all poor seniors get Medicaid...it is
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#61
I think President Obama should have went this route as opposed to the Affordable Care Act
oldlibdem
Feb 2019
#18
Actually, the ACA *did* make Medicaid coverage available to far more people..
Princess Turandot
Feb 2019
#29
They tried but with Kennedy gone and Brown elected, it wasn't going to happen. We also had
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#50
If I knew what those medications were I could tell you rather or not medicaid
standingtall
Feb 2019
#41
If either medicare or medicaid for all is ever implented we will not have to
standingtall
Feb 2019
#42
As somebody who lived in the UK most my life, the thing I see missing from the health care debate
Doodley
Feb 2019
#49
Explain Medicare for all. Just today on MNSBC it was said nobody knows what Medicare for all would
wasupaloopa
Feb 2019
#51