KaskadskyjKozak

Those who don't work already have healthcare coverage through Medicaid. The 40+ million who don't include a great number of individuals who do work but don't get healthcare benefits through their employer and can't afford them out of pocket. ya ya ya..... exactly. Just about anyone can afford at least to pay for catastrophic insurance. Many of these "uninsured" CHOOSE to be so. But they'll happily have someone else pay for it. F*** socialism.

Yes, the gov't needs to bus lardasses up to the Mt. Si trailhead every weekend, and force them up and down the hill with an R.Lee Ermey style "motivational speaker" on their heels.

WTF you been smoking? This is a libtard state just like Cali.

Wo sind Ihre Papiere, bitte?

THE IRONY THE IRONY!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure I buy this... but, yes, if you are sick and old, doctors try to give you a whole slew of drugs. But is that all about pushing drugs for profit as much as it's how we approach medicine and treatment in this country?

Hell the govement denies claims all the time,I don't see universal coverage changing much, other than getting everyone signed up under one insurance program who is not already insured,even then your going to pay some thing. NO FREE RIDES The government will have to cut costs just like insurance companies. They'll do it by denying services, by making it difficult to get treatment (longer wait times), by providing second rate drugs, care, machines, facilities. The quality will go down, costs will go up. Those of us who bear the brunt of the costs will pay EVEN MORE. Those who get a free ride as it is will continue to do so, and be joined by more like them. The rich will get the best care $$$ can buy - as always, and only pay a little more for it.

can you explain what the cost of malpractice insurance is, and what part that plays in the overall economy? I doubt he'll respond. It has been well established that the Republican hype about malpractice lawsuits being the root cause of all that is wrong or even much of what is wrong with our medical system is overbloated hype and pandering to folks who are not interested in facts, figures, or real discussion. I never said that. I cited it as ONE factor, albeit a significant one in the higher costs of medical care. And it's not just malpractice insurance or lawsuits (settlements). The FEAR of lawsuit drives health care providers to go way overboard in providing extra services and care - often unneeded to AVOID lawsuits. Keep the machine plugged in, pump in those expensive drugs - you would not want to be sued, after all. Never mind that Uncle John was an obese fuck whose arteries were clogged by a few thousand pounds of ingested lard over his lifetime, if he dies, it's the doctor's fault, damn it! Speaking of which, unhealthy people raise our costs, as do an aging population - a less and less healthy, aging population. Then there's the freeloaders who don't buy insurance, and suck off the teat of big government, visit emergency rooms, call the ambulance because they're "lonely", excessively use an overburdened system. I know people who work in the health care industry and hear all the stories. Anyways, I'm sick of your bullshit, MattP. Time for you to go on ignore for a while - you're a waste of time.

proles reads the one and only book that matters.

Huh? What are you saying??? GGK says we've been total pussies with Russia and let them have free reign. You can't be right!

Thinking people. That explains your lack of interest.

if by "giving salt" you mean to crush his skull with an adze, then YES, AMEN, BROTHER!

Lick sack, you pinko bastard.

yeah, but the 60-lb "16" year old girls haven't delivered any round house kicks to the face of any judges (yet)...

Is there a clinical term for this? I'll fight you marxists to the end, irrespective of whether I am sick of your bullshit.

I'll bet those other countries don't have such high malpractice insurance and rapacious lawyers. Reform indeed!

Nope, I'm having too much fun messing with you - our resident loony marxist.

Try the ignore feature, dumbass.

it should be obvious that I'm tired of you, ace.

Prole's man is lying in state in a mausoleum na krasnoj ploshchade.

I don't think there are enough photos on that pianoforte.

Yeah, WTF? Where are the Che posters and hammer and sickle banners. Lame!

So, why don't all the folks - there are apparently millions out there - who really think insurance companies are evil bloodsucking bastards, start your own non-profit payer system. This would be a private, non-profit whose goal was to "pool" health care costs in a fair system. Anyone who wants "in" to this system should be allowed to do so through employers, etc. Who wants to bet that such a company would go out of business before too long, or would have to make similar decisions about denying coverage as we see above. All the talk about the "government" being more fair, and solving this problems is bullshit. Either the government will have to deny services to cut costs, raise "premiums", or be in the red and take money from other tax revenue sources.

There ya go! I've got no problem with that. But what Matt wants is something much different. To solve what problem or problems? High costs? Bringing them down does not guarantee "universal health care" - which is the term MattP keeps using - along with many of the other liberals speaking out on this issue. We keep hearing about one supposedly atrocious problem after another, but one supposed solution to them all - big government.