I'm not talking about total retail spending, I'm talking about Walmart's share of the market for the products it carries where its stores are located.
Your original point about public benefits being essentially permanent was incorrect. When I pointed that out to you, you began to simply change your original point.
What is the best available private coverage, how much does it cost and how efficient is it? Before you dismiss these things off hand, why not put some numbers up to it? You are assuming that our health care system is actually worth what it costs, I don't make that assumption.
You don't have any numbers so you are making things up as you go along. What is the cost of cadillac coverage and what does it actually cost to provide? What are things that are available under such coverage but are never used? What are the efficiencies available to us when there is a single payer, single system, no preexisting condition denials and no coverage denials.
What do we gain by universal preventive care, much more stringent negotiations with drug companies, equipment companies and the like? How much do we gain by opening up jobs to foreign doctors and nurses and by providing medical education at reduced costs or for free to qualified students?
These are real issues, not made up ones from people who can't see the possibility of change.
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So, if you get really sick and your health insurance carrier decides to deny your coverage claiming that it was a pre existing condition that you failed to disclose, that is acceptable to you. You can then get an attorney (maybe, it depends on your case) and, in your sickened state, go to trial against a big corporation.
That makes sense to you? In the meantime, the corporation is hoping that you will die and that your survivors will be too grief stricken and exhausted to take them on.
I can see a better world than that.
When people are sick, that is when they need the most care and the least amount of stress, not when they need to go to trial to prevent bankruptcy. Battling a serious disease is bad enough without having to worry about paying the mortgage or paying the copay.
Christopher Reeve ran through his medical insurance's lifetime cap in 3 years. He had enough resources to keep going but not many people with injuries like that do. They would have to get rid of all of their assets and claim poverty in order to receive care.
Is this the country you want to live in? This is the richest country in the history of the world and these are the choices we make?
Why?
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