Do you want someone who believes an alternate reality designing your medical plan?

Will you doctor have to believe in an alternative reality to treat you?

Is prayer going to be the only medicine that can be prescribed so they can keep costs down?

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All I can say is don't get sick if you think it's bad now just wait it will get better the demigod has said so, Maybe it's time some of you emigrate down under at least your old age health care will be better down under :)than what your going to get from Trumpy and the republicans . Good luck and don't get sick

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The Winners And Losers In The Republican Health Care Plan

"A typical 21-year-old, for example, might be able to find coverage for around $2,600 dollars a year, most of which could be paid for with a $2,000 tax credit from the government. But a 64-year-old trying to buy insurance might have to pay five times as much, and the maximum tax credit in the GOP plan of $4,000 would cover less than a third of that."...

"So safety-net hospitals and their patients could be losers. Big winners include the wealthy. Obamacare is funded in part with extra taxes on people making more than $200,000 a year. Roberton Williams of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says scrapping those taxes would put tens of billions of dollars back in the pockets of the wealthy."

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#resist

We are being told the CBO report, not yet written, is going to be Fake News.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/10/1642270/-Republicans-hand-picked-CBO-chief-is-likely-to-trash-Trumpcare

Republicans have very good reason to fear what the Congressional Budget Office is probably going to say about Trumpcare:
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Hence the determined effort by Republicans to discredit the CBO's eventual report before it hits the ground, which should be sometime next week.

Real Truthful News wrote:

every analysis by independent health and economic think tanks has shown it's going to take insurance away from millions and cost the treasury bigly.

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We are being told the CBO report, not yet written, is going to be Fake News.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/10/1642270/-Republicans-hand-picked-CBO-chief-is-likely-to-trash-Trumpcare

Republicans have very good reason to fear what the Congressional Budget Office is probably going to say about Trumpcare:
...
Hence the determined effort by Republicans to discredit the CBO's eventual report before it hits the ground, which should be sometime next week.

Real Truthful News wrote:

every analysis by independent health and economic think tanks has shown it's going to take insurance away from millions and cost the treasury bigly.

:-( Genuinely sorry

My placement with Doctors Without Borders has just been confirmed. :-) I'd put in a word for you all but it would be contingent on your military not bombing our hospitals. Our military not pointing them out as targets to their "customers" would be good also. Just saying ;-)

My health plan is just to outlive you rumps.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Trump's in the the white house, a bunch of lilly-livered, yellow-bellow republicans own congress, and the SCOTUS will be a 5/4 conservative court. Get over it.

If that was true, why do you respond at all? FEAR.

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Obama Care or Ryan Care, is the best we can do?

Probably, the oligarchs won't allow a single payer system, their profits would suffer.

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Here's a plan:

Get the government completely out of the health care business.

Let the health care providers COMPETE.

Let the health care providers, drug manufacturers and insurance companies *advertise* their prices. Let people buy across state lines!

Let people decide for themselves what they want, when they want it and how much they're willing to pay for it.

No government intervention until something happens in the market which makes competition unfair, such as the beginnings of the formation of a monopoly.

Then there'll be DOWNWARD pressure on health care costs. Medicare/Medicaid will either be able to provide more or become cheaper for the tax payer!

(wow! I must be an expert!)

Yep, let's remove all regulations. Eventually 3 corporations will run the whole show from pharm. production, to insurance policy, to hospital administration, and then they can work together to charge whatever they want. That will be a wonderful system indeed.

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#resist

Yep, let's remove all regulations. Eventually 3 corporations will run the whole show from pharm. production, to insurance policy, to hospital administration, and then they can work together to charge whatever they want. That will be a wonderful system indeed.

Don't they already? Check those 10-K's and see who the insiders are!

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Don't they already? Check those 10-K's and see who the insiders are!

Exactly the point I made about the oligarchs not allowing change.

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Who are the insiders and give me a list of specific regulations you hold dear to your heart.

edit: and read line 6 of my last post.

I like antitrust laws (as mentioned in line 6)...

Unfortunately I don't believe they've been upheld in the spirit in which those laws were intended- i.e. many of the large ugly mergers I've seen in the last 2 decades ranging from consumer products companies to media corporations. Indeed I am sickened by the amount of corporate consolidation that happens in this country. So I have no reason to believe such laws would be upheld in some sort of Ayn Rand-ish society, *especially* when it comes to health care.

There should be no room for profit motive when peoples health and lives are at risk.

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#resist

Here's a plan:

Get the government completely out of the health care business.

Let the health care providers COMPETE.

Let the health care providers, drug manufacturers and insurance companies *advertise* their prices. Let people buy across state lines!

Let people decide for themselves what they want, when they want it and how much they're willing to pay for it.

No government intervention until something happens in the market which makes competition unfair, such as the beginnings of the formation of a monopoly.

Then there'll be DOWNWARD pressure on health care costs. Medicare/Medicaid will either be able to provide more or become cheaper for the tax payer!

(wow! I must be an expert!)

Guy there are too many oligopolies in the market for free market competition to exist.
Many of the drugs are monopolies.
People won't choose an out of state insurance company when the local medical market is not in their network.

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No government intervention until something happens in the market which makes competition unfair, such as the beginnings of the formation of a monopoly.

This has already happened in the Internet Service Provider market and yet you're against Net Neutrality. Based upon this, I see no reason why the healthcare market won't become the same and you will still be against any regulation.

drug manufacturers

You do realise that in this corner of the health care market, many of the drugs are patented. The companies defend those patents more rigorously than just about anything else. If a patent is near the end of life they will do anything to "improve" the drug and apply for a new patent.
They can charge in an open market anything they want for these drugs, remember last year, Forbes - Why Did Mylan Hike EpiPen Prices 400%? Because They Could

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drug manufacturers

You do realise that in this corner of the health care market, many of the drugs are patented. The companies defend those patents more rigorously than just about anything else. If a patent is near the end of life they will do anything to "improve" the drug and apply for a new patent.
They can charge in an open market anything they want for these drugs, remember last year, Forbes - Why Did Mylan Hike EpiPen Prices 400%? Because They Could

That is the free market in action. Stimulate demand by brand name exclusivity. For a billionaire like Guy, the cost of an epipen isn't even pocket change. I mean if a drug saves a life, it ought to cost a lifetime of earnings! Right! So price a dose at a few million! Do the same with cancer drugs. Make those profits and find a way to call them capital gains on the property of the patent so you don't pay any tax on it! Be a real rentier!

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