[Magdalen] health insurance

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 9/18/15 5:36 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Roger Stokes
> <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> What is needed is somebody to draw attention to the graph of health outcomes
>> against expenditure and the fact that the USA is an outlier from the
>> scattergram.  The fact is that those in the USA do not get what they pay for
>> in healthcare.  Which high-profile politician is willing to pass on getting
>> Big Pharma donations to say that?
>
> There's also the seemingly insurmountable hurdle of American
> exceptionalism. It seems impossible to convince great numbers of the
> public that single-payer or Medicare for all isn't a pinko socialist
> evil from godless Europe.
>

If you were on Medicare (and it's the law that I have to be), you 
wouldn't want it for "all".  It still has a premium that comes out of my 
SS check every month, and it still has a co-pay for most things (flu 
shots are "free") and a bunch of stuff isn't covered.




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