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The existing cost model is broken. -- GoochlandHoo 06/21/2017 3:51PM And none of this addresses the maldistribution of doctors ... -- HowieT3 06/21/2017 10:53AM I dunno'...Doc Hollywood went small town and did okay (pic) -- Tuckahokie 06/21/2017 11:49AM You can blink now! ** -- SPYCAV 06/21/2017 1:40PM The cold job offers that my wife gets in the mail from underserved -- CavMan1 06/21/2017 11:18AM Great salary, worked all day, and time to go out to dinner -- VaTechie 06/21/2017 11:35AM Harper's had a really good article this month on that topic -- Fuzzy Dunlop 06/21/2017 11:23AM That's pretty much the central Trumpleton paradox -- Beerman 06/21/2017 11:11AM Good. Now let's see them fisk laws that are actually being proposed -- Fuzzy Dunlop 06/21/2017 10:39AM Both Vermont and California found that they would basically have to double -- JMHoo 06/21/2017 10:36AM I thought Cali's program would cost double the total budget -- dajoka004 06/21/2017 12:10PM Yes, $400 billion, but they would get $200 billion of it from -- JMHoo 06/21/2017 12:29PM Also have to consider ER & EE share for private insurance now, but IIRC -- Hoodafan 06/21/2017 1:17PM A $13.00 per gallon gas tax will take of that problem in Cali** -- Tuckahokie 06/21/2017 10:43AM Vermont a little better off...only about a Six dollar a gallon gas tax ** -- Tuckahokie 06/21/2017 10:49AM It can be dissected a million ways, it can be studied ad nauseum...but if -- Tuckahokie 06/21/2017 09:33AM What is the Republicans goal with health care? -- WahooMatt05 06/21/2017 09:54AM To help insurance companies be profitable ** -- hokeyhokie 06/21/2017 11:10AM Insurance is not where the big money is. The big money is in the actual -- Hokie5150 06/21/2017 11:38AM Of course...as it should be ** -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 1:21PM Yep...Chris Rock nailed it..."the money is in the medicine...they don't -- Tuckahokie 06/21/2017 11:50AM "We didn't have coverage, we had robitussin!" ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 06/21/2017 12:35PM "Let that Tussin get on down to the bone!" -- hoodeyo 06/21/2017 2:47PM Ding! A screwed up goal if there ever was one. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 06/21/2017 11:20AM To kill as many democrat voters as possible... ** -- Hokie5150 06/21/2017 10:30AM Well, Rs control all Death Panel appointments now ** -- WahooMatt05 06/21/2017 10:48AM Get as many people quality health care without the govt ** -- TomKazanski 06/21/2017 10:01AM And how does the government "get" people -- WahooRQ 06/21/2017 10:17AM Gets out of the way ** -- TomKazanski 06/21/2017 11:30AM Anarchy: the key to universal heatlhcare. -- WahooRQ 06/21/2017 12:41PM Universal healthcare where everyone gets every possible measure -- Hokie5150 06/21/2017 1:49PM So is education where everyone gets to go to Yale. So on that note -- WahooRQ 06/21/2017 2:20PM We shouldn't have a federalized one. ** -- Hokie5150 06/21/2017 2:30PM It's also a strawman -- Beerman 06/21/2017 2:18PM So is the strawman of Libertarianism = Anarchy. You should know right? ** -- HoosGuy 06/21/2017 4:44PM Did you forget something Tom? -- VaTechie 06/21/2017 11:38AM He won't even understand your question ** -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 10:49AM Being the party of opposition is easy...having to govern is difficult (and -- Tuckahokie 06/21/2017 09:58AM To put as much cost on the consumer as possible -- Beerman 06/21/2017 09:57AM Addressing health care costs is valid -- WahooMatt05 06/21/2017 10:18AM Insurance is available for everyone in America. The cost is the thing ** -- Beerman 06/21/2017 10:24AM That is the basic truth but I think everybody accepts this at some level. -- Hoepner 06/21/2017 09:51AM Yes. That's what it takes. ** -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 09:40AM There may be ways to nibble away at the fringes of cost reduction like -- Tuckahokie 06/21/2017 09:57AM Sadly I think you are right. The best we may be able to do is slow -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 12:47PM That OECD chart does NOT say what the WAPO editorial writer -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 09:30AM The article implies that money is not going to be saved from elsewhere. -- Hoepner 06/21/2017 09:25AM See my post above. The column completely misunderstand the analysis ** -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 09:31AM I just laugh at the fools who think this would be any different than any -- TomKazanski 06/21/2017 09:25AM People that don't get health ins. through their employer are just leaches ** -- FfxStationHokie 06/21/2017 09:05AM They are confusing single payer with a government run health system. -- Seattle .Hoo 06/21/2017 09:03AM How so? Can't read the article (pay wall) but aren't they talking about -- JMHoo 06/21/2017 10:26AM Here's the copy and paste. It's not a paywall, it's a cap on the free -- Hoodafan 06/21/2017 11:27AM And here is the link tot he research this column was "based" -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 12:03PM Thanks. Still don't understand why Seattle .Hoo says "Medicare for all" -- JMHoo 06/21/2017 12:37PM There is a distinction between government healtcare (UK), government -- Seattle .Hoo 06/21/2017 12:40PM What's the difference between Canada and Europe? -- JMHoo 06/21/2017 1:10PM For one thing, you shouldn't lump Europe together. Each country does things -- Seattle .Hoo 06/21/2017 1:23PM Exactly. And any comparison of OUR government provided insurance -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 12:52PM And they don't understand the numbers they base their column on - see above ** -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 09:32AM The USA can't do what every other modern nation does ** -- hokeyhokie 06/21/2017 08:58AM They can't either, they're all drowning in debt ** -- Hoo87 06/21/2017 09:01AM Sweden debt/gdp is about 42%. Us debt/gdp is about 106%. -- HoosWillWin 06/21/2017 09:12AM Norway, which has the 2nd highest Health Care spend per capita, is 32% -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 09:51AM Do you honestly believe Luxembourg and Norway are fair comparisons... -- HoosGuy 06/21/2017 10:41AM Norway also has a ~$1t oil fund -- Capital City Hoo 06/21/2017 11:01AM Sure there are differences, but other countries are making this work, and -- HoosWillWin 06/21/2017 10:51AM Because it isn't proven with a large, diverse, high-immigrant population ** -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 1:07PM Canada: 21% immigrant. US: 13% immigrant ** -- Beerman 06/21/2017 1:30PM Many european countries have similar or higher immigrant populations to US ** -- KCHoo 06/21/2017 3:15PM They can cherry-pick their immigrants. We can't. ** -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 1:33PM What do immigration and diversity have to do with a working healthcare -- WahooRQ 06/21/2017 1:20PM They are on average less healthy than the rest of the population ** -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 1:23PM That's false. Not to mention Canada and Germany have higher percentage -- WahooRQ 06/21/2017 1:32PM That's my point. We have multiple drivers of poverty -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 1:37PM Sweden 23% 1st or 2nd generation immigrant, Norway 17% -- KCHoo 06/21/2017 3:19PM It isn't the quantity, it is the quality ** -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 3:34PM Why not just be clear about what you are saying rather than moving the ball -- KCHoo 06/21/2017 3:56PM The whites drive up the expenditures (largely because they can afford it) -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 4:04PM Dude, you're embarrassing yourself by trying to make this about race and -- WahooRQ 06/21/2017 4:20PM When you live in a segregated nation, of course it is about those things -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 4:45PM Don't hispanics have a higher life expectancy than whites in the US? ** -- KCHoo 06/21/2017 6:05PM That's an oversimplification -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 11:47PM Longer life expectancy because they are younger?? That is some -- WahooRQ 06/22/2017 08:30AM That article would suggest that hispanics, particularly foreign born -- KCHoo 06/22/2017 11:52AM They come to the US to have babies (which inflates infant mortality #s) -- Faz d. Hoo 06/22/2017 09:01AM Sweet Jesus please tell me you're just trolling now. ** -- WahooRQ 06/22/2017 09:19AM I don't think the Nordic countries are much like us either. Germany, France -- WahooRQ 06/21/2017 2:00PM UK is in total disarray right now so let's not hold them up as a paragon -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 2:55PM Point is none of them are being bankrupted by universal healthcare systems -- WahooRQ 06/21/2017 2:59PM So your solution then? -- Beerman 06/21/2017 1:54PM Yes, we actually don't have the money to simply pay for everyone's -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 2:00PM That much is absolutely true -- Beerman 06/21/2017 2:04PM If you are suggesting we abandon single payer, since it -- HoosWillWin 06/21/2017 1:10PM I've outlined my proposals on health care here multiple times -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 1:19PM Can't keep track of individual plans. If it is single payer, the great! -- HoosWillWin 06/21/2017 1:43PM Link -- Faz d. Hoo 06/21/2017 1:52PM Certainly there are differences in population and georgraphical -- 111Balz 06/21/2017 10:48AM They are doing it** -- hokeyhokie 06/21/2017 09:03AM