Everyone agrees

[keith99]

Antibiotics are not used in fighting viruses.

Oops!

 

[Evan Jellicoe]

I am uninsured atm, but for 70 dollars I can see my doctor (an amount most people who fall through the cracks can manage)

Uh, no, not really. Many can, probably, but do not assume all can. A person who cannot even keep up with daily expenses (there are many here) is very likely to just skip the doctor visit.

 

[cow451]

NM

 

[cow451]

Just gonna say, one of those candidates would have made a coordinated effort to improve healthcare in the US, and the one in office made an effort to remove our preparedness.

Ouch

 

[cow451]

It's probably me that's got it wrong. I hear more from other people about Donald's tweets than anything else and I have to confess I have never learned to tweet so I'm being somewhat derogatory about the whole thing. If I updated my skills I'd change my view of reality.

Twitter is for people that can’t write. Don’t waste your time.

 

[cow451]

Have you ever considered that the greater the access to quality preventative care the fewer hospital beds are actually needed in any given population?

That chart tells me the U.S. is doing very well with preventive care, not that it's doing poorly.

Having worked in healthcare 49 years, I can assure you the US wastes vast resources by not having universal access to preventive and primary care.

 

[cow451]

I am uninsured atm, but for 70 dollars I can see my doctor (an amount most people who fall through the cracks can manage) and if I wanted to drive to the teaching hospital based on income its free for me to be seen there.

So whether minor or serious even without insurance I'm not without essential care. April will be the first month in a while that I'm no longer uninsured...

That free care is not free. It’s being paid for by the insurance other people have.

 

[cow451]

Being uninsured ensures that price shopping will occur... I could go to a different doc for 145 a visit, but the 70 dollar doc provides the same level of care...

Most insured people don't bother price shopping..

Their insurance plan does the shopping and the rates are already contracted.

 

[Kentonio]

IMHO, Andrew Yang sunk without a trace because his message did not resonate with the voters on the left.

That is just the plain simple truth.

I think message is not that important in terms of determining who actually gets elected. Yang's message was really popular. Bernie's was super popular. But in the end people tend to vote for a safe choice rather than anyone proposing things that sound too dramatic.

 

[MorkandMindy]

Andrew's policies were safe, pretty certain to work as expected, Bernie's are high risk and mostly nonsense, same with E.W.'s

 

[MorkandMindy]

As noted in California's abandoned mobile hospitals and ventilators, if a country or state runs out of money vital prevention is the first thing to be cut, similarly when corruption has taken the money it is the ordinary working people who suffer.

Deciding to blow trillions, many trillions on some schemes will mean other, more cost effective activities will be cut.

The only people who support Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are people who don't understand what a trillion dollars actually is.

 

[cow451]

NM

 

[MorkandMindy]

I am uninsured atm, but for 70 dollars I can see my doctor (an amount most people who fall through the cracks can manage) and if I wanted to drive to the teaching hospital based on income its free for me to be seen there.

So whether minor or serious even without insurance I'm not without essential care. April will be the first month in a while that I'm no longer uninsured...

That's very interesting Hazelelponi, I'm in the same predicament, after much investigation and debate finally when denied Medicaid for the 5th time last year I appealed again and an administrator at yesnm (should be called no nm) explained that I'm one of very few people who lose their medical coverage at 65 and that nearly everyone gets coverage so it really isn't a problem.