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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (41939)	8/6/2017 9:47:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Let try for all of them. First - Few actually argue for an actual capitalist health care system. Certainly most Republicans don't (and essentially no Democrats do, at least none prominent enough for me to know about them) Like the economy as a whole its a mixed economy. 2nd - Essentially no one wants insurance companies to be able to deny coverage whenever they please. If they have accepted an insurance contract, they should have to pay out on that contract. If by deny coverage you are not referring to that, instead referring to choosing who they decide to insure, ok then its much less of an an exaggeration, since some do want this. Its spun (trying to portray it negatively), but I can't exactly jump on it too hard because of that, its a political cartoon, you don't exactly expect it to paint the other side in the most generous of light. 3 - "Medical Bankruptices" are an exaggerated issue. Any bankruptcy with any significant amount of medical debt gets lumped in to medical bankruptcy. Also the current situation is not a free market one, hospitals and medical services at hospitals are regulated. The most relevant form of regulation here is regulations to limit supply which helps reduce competition. 4 - No one broadly insists on "no negotiation on price" for drugs. 5 - Other than the corporations themselves few to none are generally "fighting to death to preserve corporate profits" in this area. Also it gives a distorted implied image of corporate profits as something bad. 6 - You even have to ask?