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Yet, in every single system doing that, no matter how different they are, those are the results. Come on, the excuse that "USA is different" holds no water, all the other systems are different from each other as well.
Yes they all have some differences, but they also have a lot of similarities. The US isnt just different it is ENORMOUSLY different from its roots. There would need to be a drastic alteration in all our systems and culture. You just see pie in the sky. Im looking at ground level.

Our country is in ENORMOUS debt as is. We fund FAR TOO MUCH as it is. Single payer would blow up everything and have to alter a national culture. Our country is huge with 75% of our budget going to welfare programs now and our banks broken.

Again, I am not completely opposed but I am very skeptical that it can be done.

England's system is having a lot of problems with millions waiting for care. Thousands have died in their emergency rooms while waiting for care.
And there are other problems that are growing.

I'm still skeptical that it will work here.
 
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Single payer would blow up everything and have to alter a national culture.

"Alter a national culture"? What are you talking about?

We already pay for a ton of health insurance, in some very inefficient ways. Routing our existing insurance spending through the government instead of through employers wouldn't "blow up everything" - it would just reroute money and make it more easy to swap jobs.

Or is that the "national culture" you want to preserve - the one where people stay in lousy jobs to keep the insurance for their sick kids?


England's system is having a lot of problems with millions waiting for care. Thousands have died in their emergency rooms while waiting for care.
As if we don't have that here in America?
 
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Instead of a simple bipartisan CR. The Democrats want a 1.7 trillion dollar spending increase.
That's OK - because apparently 'reducing the deficit' in Trump's mind means giving billionaires a $3 trillion tax cut over the next decade. That's just the billionaires! Oh - and kicking the bottom 16 million Americans off healthcare - which will increase unnecessary, early American deaths by 50,000 a year. But Oligarch's gotta garch! This is the way.
 
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Our country is in ENORMOUS debt as is. We fund FAR TOO MUCH as it is. Single payer would blow up everything and have to alter a national culture. Our country is huge with 75% of our budget going to welfare programs now and our banks broken.

Hmmm, single payer. That's a BIG topic.

Most OECD countries have something like single payer AND something else that makes it work. America doesn't have a clue what that something else is - and so single payer would bankrupt America. Single payer by itself would be like building a house with only half the foundations. It's a step in the right direction - but you need the rest of it to make the whole work - otherwise it eventually collapses and you've wasted a bunch of money.

Basically, most of these other OECD nations that offer universal healthcare have something like single payer - and yet still manage to bring in healthcare at HALF the cost of America's insane healthcare bill!

I'll tell you what the missing ingredient is - the thing Americans do not seem to even have words for - in the next post. But right now? Just stare in amazement at America's healthcare spending - yet how many tens of millions of citizens do not have cover now? It seems you pay twice as much for a fraction of the service!

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That's OK - because apparently 'reducing the deficit' in Trump's mind means giving billionaires a $3 trillion tax cut over the next decade. That's just the billionaires! Oh - and kicking the bottom 16 million Americans off healthcare - which will increase unnecessary, early American deaths by 50,000 a year. But Oligarch's gotta garch! This is the way.
You really don't know what you are talking about.
 
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