A single-payer system

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  1. dairyair

    dairyair Well-Known Member

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    IMO, UHC was inevitable when free trade agreements started moving jobs out of country and replace with service jobs.
    Pensions left, now employer health insurance goes.
    Capitalism. Unions die, so do benefits.
     
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    Singapore is why we should.
     
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    You seem to be arguing that since it is what we have, we should keep it that way.
     
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    Wasn't argueing anything of the sort. Follow up to a part of the discussion about rationing healthcare. Point was we already ration healthcare according to wealth and that results in biased outcomes.
     
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    I agree. And what we have is a bad plan. Top to bottom, profit is the problem. It's the wrong incentive and conflicts with doing the right thing for the people.
     

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