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<blockquote data-quote="LarryBird" data-source="post: 4104022" data-attributes="member: 76548"><p>You also spend about $22 out of every hundred for medical care, even though not a single nickel of that goes toward your own healthcare costs - the bulk of it goes to pay for Medicare and Medicaid, at an inflated premium over what this care should cost, of course. The rest of this 22% goes to food safety, disease control, and public health services. This 22% is in addition to the dedicated Medicare taxes we already have withheld from our paycheck.</p><p></p><p>Aren't you glad we don't have universal healthcare, even though we clearly pay enough to implement it already, if only we took the insurance companies out of the mix and nationalized medicine?</p><p></p><p>I know what we have going on now makes ZERO sense to me - pay hugely inflated medical costs because of the fact that no indigent person can be refused care and thus we all pick up the extra costs, instead of making healthcare universal, thereby lowering the cost for all by dropping the middle man and taking the profit motive out of life or death decisions.</p><p></p><p>How much more do you think that would cost us total? Not too much, if anything at all. But they'd rather sell you a bull<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> story about horrific care, months long wait times to see the doctor, and astronomical costs. Keep believing that story, even as every other developed country in the world makes free medical work, and it consistently ranks among their most cherished and satisfying government programs worldwide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LarryBird, post: 4104022, member: 76548"] You also spend about $22 out of every hundred for medical care, even though not a single nickel of that goes toward your own healthcare costs - the bulk of it goes to pay for Medicare and Medicaid, at an inflated premium over what this care should cost, of course. The rest of this 22% goes to food safety, disease control, and public health services. This 22% is in addition to the dedicated Medicare taxes we already have withheld from our paycheck. Aren't you glad we don't have universal healthcare, even though we clearly pay enough to implement it already, if only we took the insurance companies out of the mix and nationalized medicine? I know what we have going on now makes ZERO sense to me - pay hugely inflated medical costs because of the fact that no indigent person can be refused care and thus we all pick up the extra costs, instead of making healthcare universal, thereby lowering the cost for all by dropping the middle man and taking the profit motive out of life or death decisions. How much more do you think that would cost us total? Not too much, if anything at all. But they'd rather sell you a bull:censored: story about horrific care, months long wait times to see the doctor, and astronomical costs. Keep believing that story, even as every other developed country in the world makes free medical work, and it consistently ranks among their most cherished and satisfying government programs worldwide. [/QUOTE]
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