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Thanks Bernie!
Bernie-free-shit-land:
How would the situation described in this thread would be handled in Bernie-free-shit-land: https://patrick.net/post/1312247/2017-12-03-licensed-to-bill-how-doctors-profit-from-injury-assessments-that-benefit-insruance-companies
KimJongUn says
How would the situation described in this thread would be handled in Bernie-free-shit-land: https://patrick.net/post/1312247/2017-12-03-licensed-to-bill-how-doctors-profit-from-injury-assessments-that-benefit-insruance-companies
What does canadian car accidents have to do with bernie? That's like adding 2 + 2 and coming up with negative pi.
I still don’t understand your legitimate question. Can you try and pose it as an actual question, please?
errc saysI still don’t understand your legitimate question. Can you try and pose it as an actual question, please?
Read the linked article about Canadians not able to get proper care after a car accident. Is or is not Canadian healthcare still considered a model to follow? How would Bernie's proposed system handle these situations?
errc saysI still don’t understand your legitimate question. Can you try and pose it as an actual question, please?
Read the linked article about Canadians not able to get proper care after a car accident. Is or is not Canadian healthcare still considered a model to follow? How would Bernie's proposed system handle these situations?
The boomers are old now and want their free cake
mell saysThe boomers are old now and want their free cake
They've been paying into medicare there entire working life. It's not free cake once they're 65 and over.
anon_08dee saysmell saysThe boomers are old now and want their free cake
They've been paying into medicare there entire working life. It's not free cake once they're 65 and over.
It is if the paid cost of services rendered largely exceed the payments, which they - unfortunately - do.
How much did the employer and employee pay into the system during that time? How many boomers die before using that amount for their healthcare?
1. The problems of the Canadian healthcare are exaggerated and anecdotes sensationalized in the US.
anon_7798e says
How much did the employer and employee pay into the system during that time? How many boomers die before using that amount for their healthcare?
Boomers built up a surplus, because their payments were supporting a smaller population. Once gen Xers are supporting boomers, the surplus will be depleted, and there will be a medicare debt.
If any Republicans are for govt. involvement in healthcare,they should be tried & executed.
Their SOCIALISM will destroy America.
Republicans should be removed from their SOCIALIST Security,Medicare & all their other govt. teats.
That didn't answer the first question, but pulled a straw man.
The question is vague,
How much did the Boomers (and employers) pay in?
Why don't you tell us how much boomers paid into the system.
Their benefits will be much greater than what they put in,
My post was good, because it gets right to the primary problem with medicare and SS at the moment.
Americans convicted of a DUI aren’t even allowed into Canada.
Except of course European governments typically cover everyone for that money. Whereas the US government covers only a fraction of the population.
Medicare for all is totally incompatible with the tax cuts that are in progress. IMO, the main purpose of the tax cut is to starve gov, and further the need to cut programs.
Paul Ryan is already talking about slashing entitlements in 2018.
Boomers (and their employers) were pre-paying their healthcare premiums for 45 years before they retired (through the Medicare Tax).
How much did the employer and employee pay into the system during that time? How many boomers die before using that amount for their healthcare?
To be clear, he is talking about cutting the social security and medicare benefits that poor and working class folks have contributed into all of their lives in order to retroactively fund tax cuts that will go mostly to the wealthier people.
Got a link to his statement?
anon_b5d5a says
Got a link to his statement?
That's what do called entitlement programs are. It's not controversial. Just search the net or check Wikipedia, which has a link to an editorial by Paul Ryan where he refers to ss and Medicare as entitlements.
Since we didn't put SS in a lock box it has all been spent already.
Trump mentioned this during his campaign, but seems to have quietly dropped it.
Just search the net or check Wikipedia, which has a link to an editorial by Paul Ryan where he refers to ss and Medicare as entitlements.
You have to define "entitlements".
As an aside, the word entitlement doesn't work as well for welfare and food stamps, because you have to assume that a minimum standard of living is a basic right that people are entitled to.
and I mentioned that Paul Ryan was recently talking about slashing entitlements. So, for the purposes of this conversation, we can define it the same way that Paul Ryan and the other Republicans define it.
Is it an entitlement to collect on your homeowners insurance when your house burns down?
Is it an entitlement to collect on your auto insurance if you total your car?
Is it an entitlement to collect on your health insurance if you have a heart transplant?
Is it an entitlement to collect on your life insurance if you die early?
People often used the word to describe someone who feels entitled to something when they haven't earned it. You seem stuck on that use, but the word clearly means that someone does have a legal or moral right to something.
In politics, the phrase 'entitlement programs' definitely refers to social security and medicare as well as other programs. Are you really claiming that it doesn't?
http://news.gallup.com/poll/223031/americans-support-government-run-health-system-edges.aspx
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