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In reply to the discussion: Medicare for All Costs Too Much, Pelosi Adviser Assures Health Insurance Executives [View all]Response to GlennRuss (Reply #19)
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Medicare for All Costs Too Much, Pelosi Adviser Assures Health Insurance Executives [View all]
appalachiablue
Feb 2019
OP
The only pig at the trough that doesn't actually contribute to healthcare outcomes is the insurers
pecosbob
Feb 2019
#1
No shit!!! It seems like every discussion about the high potential healthcare costs...
Raster
Feb 2019
#32
Medicare for all is way cheaper than private insurance supplemented by emergency room visits
tclambert
Feb 2019
#3
I don't why anyone here believes anything that the Intercept, Glenn Greenwald's baby, reports on.
pnwmom
Feb 2019
#6
The ony way Medicare for All could be realistically implemented in the USA would be to
No Vested Interest
Feb 2019
#9
Phasing in gives the insurance industry time to dig their corrupt fingers into new flesh.
Magoo48
Feb 2019
#11
And make all electric utilities go back to coal so the miners can get back their jobs.
Cold War Spook
Feb 2019
#16
A whole bureaucracy will need to be created to administer single-payer.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Feb 2019
#22
I doubt that cost-effectiveness is the point of having Medicare for all.
No Vested Interest
Feb 2019
#44
Which other programs currently provide health care to children (by insurance or other means)?
No Vested Interest
Feb 2019
#48
VA is a good model for a single-payer system. Unless Trump dissolves it.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Feb 2019
#23