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In reply to the discussion: The US spends $3 trillion a year on health care. How much goes to health insurance companies? [View all]Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)21. I disagree somewhat
Yes, that is a part due to availability of good food. Another part that has to be admitted to is a lack of knowledge and the lack of preventive health care. So what is Hillary going to do for this problem?
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The US spends $3 trillion a year on health care. How much goes to health insurance companies? [View all]
hill2016
Nov 2015
OP
I believe you don't know shit about diabetes and obesity. Your ignorant post just showed that
Ed Suspicious
Nov 2015
#51
I am and many in my extended family are diabetic. If we eat a perfectly balanced diabetic diet
Ed Suspicious
Nov 2015
#52
We are all type 2. The point of putting her on a diet regime is the control blood glucose levels.
Ed Suspicious
Nov 2015
#54
Unless we make other changes to the system, you'd be lucky to cut 10% out of monthly premiums by
Hoyt
Nov 2015
#5
We'd be so much better off if people had accepted Hillary Care in the early 1990s. I think she'll
Hoyt
Nov 2015
#17
It was a bit complicated for folks, but it had authority/input at the local level to help with a
Hoyt
Nov 2015
#24
It very much depends on the type of system, and Medicare isn't very good at that either
Recursion
Nov 2015
#41
Why would it go down? We have 30 million uninsured and 50 million underinsured.
Recursion
Nov 2015
#40
So supporting Hilary now means attacking single-payer, aka medicare-for-all???
reformist2
Nov 2015
#36
Above that one (in the CMS spreadsheet): Total Administration and Total Net Cost
Recursion
Nov 2015
#48