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No surprise there!
The anti-Trump brigade (some Republicans and all Democrats) are funded by Big Pharma and Big insurance companies.
He MUST be brought down to maintain their funding. These parasites will do anything to prevent real medical reform
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08-08-2017, 04:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-08-2017, 05:19 AM by oly2059.)
Of course, I am in downstate IL. I am middle class and retired from a long-held government job. My dad and my mother and most of their friends were at least one rung up the social/ economic ladder from where I am today. They took more business risks, while I got a stable job with a big employer. I am still very comfortable.
If I think very hard about it, every single person I know obtains their health insurance coverage from their employer or former employer. Many of my friends are real farmers, and their wives work for some corporation, hospital or government, not for the money from the job, but so their families can have adequate health coverage. I have one cousin who was a successful small business owner, and he and his wife ran "naked", without health insurance, and they lost most everything when they began to have the common health problems that sixty year olds frequently encounter. They were not realists. Almost every family I know maintains some relationship with an employer who can provide health insurance, even if the income itself is secondary.
This headline regarding 'Obamacare' health insurance premium increases involves a smaller group of people who never readily fit in to the normal employer-based scheme of things. Yes, these people should have access to the healthcare system but the question is do you overturn the present scheme of things? For a clear minority? In France, you get a cradle-to-grave social safety net that is society-wide, but they pay 75% of their earnings in taxes. I think the American people want 'single payer' and universal healthcare coverage, and a little better overall social safety net, but I am damn certain they don't want to see a paystub where 75% of their earnings go to the State.
And yes, the expensive, interfering healthcare middlemen have to be shoved aside somehow. And yes, the American political system isn't prepared to do that, yet, either.
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Do you make things up or just plain exaggerrate? The rate of tax in France for a wage earner making up to 151,000 Euro is 41%. Where do you get 75% from?
Published last week was the state of health services across the world.
UK was number 1 and Australia was number 2.
I've lived in the USA for 5 years, UK for 34 years and Australia for 31 years. The USA health care system sucks big time but nobody knows how to fix it from the inside. Bewildering for most outsiders looking in that you can't see it for yourselves.
