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Originally Posted by sortie
How do you get a tax break if you are unemployed and thus paid no taxes?
How do you qualify for subsidies if you are homeless and an address is
required to qualify.
How does the price of health care go down when doctors set the prices and not the government?
So you get coverage for $2000 but the doctor charges $4000.
Do you pay the extra $2000 that you don't have or do you foolishly believe
the health plan will pay more because they are nice?
Health care in this country will never be fully paid for under the current system because if the health plans pay more the doctors just charge more.
Her plan is fucking "pie in the sky". America needs "health care reform" before any "health care plan" will work.
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Do you honestly believe Doctors set the prices? Insurance companies set the prices. Doctors inflate prices to try and get as much as possible from the insurance companies but in the end they send the doctor what they think the procedure was worth, not what the doctor thought it was worth.
I agree with you that America could use a total re haul and elimination of HMO's and private insurance companies in order to get costs truly to the levels they should be at, but thats is your pie in the sky plan. That will NEVER happen in the US until the people rise up and cause a revolution.
But under what is possible, Clinton's plan does the best to work with what is available to provide the best coverage to everyone at the best price possible. When everyone is covered, eventually you see preventive care instead of sick care and that by itself ends up bringing costs down once you eliminate the more serious sicknesses which cost far more to treat.