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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 11:44 AM
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HCR: Best Idea Yet
Just make it free for everyone. You get sick, you go to a doctor and get cured. The doctors save your life. Simple and clean, and its free!!

You got a problem with that?
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 12:30 PM
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1. Maybe we're looking for a little more nuance
Such as:
Who owns the hospitals and other facilities; and if it's not the current people, are they paid for them, or just taken
Who employs the doctors and other staff, and sets their pay
Can doctors or other employees make all decisions without reference to what they'd cost?
Are you paying for this from income tax, corporation tax, sales tax or what?
How much will those rise?
What happens about pharmaceutical companies? Who sets the prices (or owns the companies in the US, for that matter)?
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 04:05 PM
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2. Good questions, but
From my reading of these pages it seems most folks want it all and they don't want to pay for it, so I figured they'd make my OP a greatest.

Maybe they actually know better?
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