Good. Block their deal, let them drop out of obamacare, and then give us the Single Payer that we've always deserved and watch those fuckers go bankrupt like they've always deserved.
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what people really want when they push for socialized medicine is equality over improvement.
envy holds us back so much.
Read your Wilkinson and Pickett. Aside from perhaps the environment, equality is the political and economic issue that will shape the 21st century.
Did you know that before the AMA was created that doctors had to do house calls or face living in abject poverty as a result of the market being flooded with healthcare professionals?
Don't be dense. You know there are happy mediums.
* Read your Wilkinson and Pickett. Aside from perhaps the environment, equality is the political and economic issue that will shape the 21st century.*
I've read Pickett. Equality is horrifying. Eastern Europe is the result. The handicapper general is terrifying.
It's the end to any human greatness.
To blame equality for problems caused by systems that never implemented anything like equality is quite bizarre.
…the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union who were walking down the street and one of them says: Have we really achieved full communism? Is this it? Is this now full communism?
The other one said: Oh no, things are gonna get a lot worse.
I find it almost comical that you want to opt for such an extreme measure rather than accept systems that have a proven track record of delivering much cheaper care.
And as I've pointed out: Both in Canada where you live, and in the UK where I live (as well as in unlikely places like China, which doesn't have a proper socialised healthcare system) you can pay to go private if you for some reason don't get to see a doctor fast enough, or isn't happy with the service. But at least in these countries there is something in place for those who can't afford to.
It doesn't matter. There provably wasn't equality.
So whether or not what they had was socialism (which, by the way, does not require equality in any case) is entirely irrelevant to the argument.