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donkeyjon March 7 2011, 18:37:08 UTC
Or, better yet, why not get rid of the tax cuts, and then DON'T spend the money and instead use the extra to create a balanced budget?

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dwer March 9 2011, 15:17:57 UTC
this, a thousand times this.

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donkeyjon March 9 2011, 15:53:57 UTC
That's precisely WHY it's a good solution. Those who have expensive conditions should pay more for their care. If they cannot afford to do so, they should be dropped from care.

Unfortunately, doctors don't refuse care to sick people, and we get stuck in the situation we have now, where those who can't afford care simply receive treatment, then refuse to pay, adding the burden to the medical costs for the rest of us. For a purely private health system to work, something would need to be done.

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dwer March 9 2011, 15:58:08 UTC
Ok. that's the show folks. Nothing to see here, move along...


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pacotelic March 9 2011, 18:34:02 UTC
Poor people with critical conditions should be enrolled in the marines, given a gun and sent to Afghanistan to sweep for IEDs, right?

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roseofjuly March 10 2011, 02:50:15 UTC
That's precisely WHY it's a good solution. Those who have expensive conditions should pay more for their care. If they cannot afford to do so, they should be dropped from care.

What the fuck kind of shit is this?

So you think poor people should just die because they don't have any money? You do realize that diabetics who can't afford their medication will die because their bodies can't process sugar, right? Or that without antiretroviral treatment, AIDS can kill people in a matter of months?

Not to mention that you completely did a 180. I said that you don't think poor people's health isn't important enough to tax people for; you said that private health insurance was a solution. When I pointed out that it wouldn't help poor people because there is no natural incentive for covering the poor who are also sick, you then changed the objective ( ... )

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pacotelic March 7 2011, 21:34:09 UTC
We already spent money on healthcare before the reform bill went in. Medicare, Medicaid, HHS and NIH are all expensive programs that we've had for decades.

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dwer March 7 2011, 21:21:33 UTC
because that won't really help anyone.

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dwer March 7 2011, 21:30:21 UTC
spend less on other things, then.

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dwer March 7 2011, 21:46:06 UTC
or, we could be even more responsible, and require the richest of the rich to pay a little bit more back to this country that has made their obscene wealth possible.

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dwer March 7 2011, 21:52:20 UTC
the same people who are saying "tax us more"?

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dwer March 8 2011, 19:26:03 UTC
I know how much the deficit is. The difference is, I don't think it's more important than people's lives.

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