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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:21 PM Original message |
Report: Medicare Expansion Would Not Solve Problems |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. WAPO ,every now and again, shows their GOP bias. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. So the WAPO created the report |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. What specifically about the Washington Post's article is biased? |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. ? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. Doesn't anyone research stuff anymore before they publish it as gospel truth? |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Looking North... |
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Proletariatprincess (527 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. I never understood that argument... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. It's a straw man. It has nothing to do with the debate at hand. n/t |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. See Taiwan for another example... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Believe me their problems compared to ours are microscopic in scale. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:46 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Its all about funding... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:52 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. We fund the health insurance industry or they wouldn't exist. Removing the |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. The article supplied does not seem to support that.... |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:01 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. The article supplied is also 4 years old |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:06 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. So things have changed radically in Canadian healthcare... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:01 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Did you just arrive from the Ayn Rand institute? Your article is astroturf. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Has to be a combination of the two... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:18 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Your article, deals in anecdotes some of them anonymous. But here is |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I wonder how DU Canadians will respond to either of these? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:28 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Oh I agree, some of the European systems are far more superior but I pointed |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:43 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Oh... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:59 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. I had to laugh at your link there. It contains all the astroturf that the |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Yep... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. AP is known to be right wing. They took an article and published it without |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:15 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Are you in Canada? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:26 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. It just so happens I used to work in northeastern Washington, sixty miles |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Noooooooooo, seems like we cut our military budget by AT LEAST half. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:49 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Please become informed... |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. You could start by taking all the money that goes for "insurance" right now |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Yep and with that money that isn't going to 30% administrative costs, |
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kooljerk666 (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
8. look at this article on health care costs..... |
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Aragorn (784 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 04:50 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. wrong |
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kooljerk666 (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. this paragraph seems to indicate MD are getting commisions.... |
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Old Coot (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
29. Good article! n/t |
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dpbrown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
33. Universal, Single-Payer Health Care Now! |
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Stellabella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
34. Why don't we take a survey of the over 65 crowd and see if they would rather |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:32 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Here's my vote. I never felt secure in my health plans until I got old enough |
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Old Coot (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 06:11 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. How often do you get your colonoscopies? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. They were doing them every five years and I'm due for one next year. |
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Old Coot (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Thanks. You are helpful. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 07:52 PM Response to Reply #39 |
46. I have to get mine every two years... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 06:23 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Here's an article I found about it. |
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Old Coot (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 06:32 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. Thanks for the info. I will have to check on that. n/t |
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Stellabella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 09:39 PM Response to Reply #36 |
48. And I'm sure you're in the majority. |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
43. bull shit!!! total BULL SHIT!!! LIES!!! |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
44. GOP bias . . . and we need to stop corporations from ripping off Medicare ...!!! |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
45. MEDICARE FOR ALL . . .is the cheapest AND best way to go -- |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
47. MEDICARE FOR ALL . . .is the cheapest AND best way to go -- |
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