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   Orthodox Catholic said, 3 months ago

   Enjoy your $20,000 health care insurance, lady.
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   We would have been far, far better off with a single payer system like Sweden or Denmark have than this boondoggle which benefits the greedy insurance companies.
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   Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago

   @Orthodox Catholic

   …which is was Clinton wanted in the 90s (and was rejected) and what Obama actually wanted. “Obamacare” is just the Republican proposal that got shot down in the 90s for giving too much power to the private insurance companies.
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   Before the ‘affordable OTaxCare’ act no one get treated for asthma? My kid had asthma and I made sure he got the care and treatment he needed. I had to get and keep a job to do it, maybe that’s her problem?
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   alcors3 said, 3 months ago

   The kid looks like Alfred E Newman. Mom has been eating too much junk food which she orders on her free cell phone and pays for with food stamps. She could just get rich by spilling hot coffee in her lap.
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   eaglefalcon said, 3 months ago

   That POOR kid in the cartoon looks just like Alfred E. Newman from MAD magazine ………
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   PlainBill said, 3 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Again the big lie from the dittohead. You make three big mistakes.
   1. There are more people looking for work than there are jobs available.
   2. Many (most) of the available jobs do not provide the benefit of health insurance.
   3. Your third mistake – you posted, showing once again how silly you are.
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   michael said, 3 months ago

   Tying health insurance to a job is stuoid: the American dream is out of reach when starting a business means having no health insurance for your family.
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   parkerfields said, 3 months ago

   If they are typical, they have a nice home, a nice car, nice clothes, a cell phone for each family member, and cable TV. But, they cannot afford to care for their own children’s medical needs, which generally cost far less than any of the above mentioned luxury items.
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   parkerfields said, 3 months ago

   @PlainBill

   As a small business owner, I would love to have 6 full time employees right now (five years ago I had that many employees). But with the costs of everything going up, right now I can afford one full time employee and two part time employees. The more my costs go up, the less people I can afford to employ. I can’t just print money like the government. I have so much money to go around, and if my costs are less, I can hire more employees. If I have less money, I have to cut back – doing more work myself and putting off doing some tasks. It doesn’t take rocket science to understand the concept.
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    jimhargrave said, 3 months ago

    Take the money we “borrow” to give to other countries and pay for all the crisis cases. There we be plenty left over…Without the free market you have nothing.
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    Gary Kleppe said, 3 months ago

    @Kylie2112

    You are incorrect. The Clinton plan was a “managed care” plan similar to Obama’s. Wellstone-McDermott was the single-payer plan in those days, and the Clintons never supported it.
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    markjoseph125 said, 3 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Thank you for stating so clearly what everyone knows about the right wing—their position is that if someone can’t afford medical care, then “they should die and reduce the surplus population.”
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    Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

    @eaglefalcon

    Yeah, I got that too. Just an open smile with a missing tooth and you there ya go
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    PlainBill said, 3 months ago

    @parkerfields

    That’s funny – what do you really do – write fiction? Every successful business I have ever seen had a simple guideline for determining how many employees they should have – they hired as many as they needed to do the work.

    If you are still serving the same number of customers with 3 employees as you did with 6, something was wrong with your staffing level.If you have fewer customers, it behooves you to either get more customers or eliminate some of the drain on your resources.
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    momsaid said, 3 months ago

    The Free Market should determine the price of services, aka keeping cost in line with consumers’ ability to pay.

    AHA takes the consumer completely out of the equation, while jacking up costs for doctors and employers, and requirements/mandates for insurance companies.

    Next step: subsidize all who can’t afford premiums, copays, taxes, etc. Oh…and install a ‘Minimum Profit Standard’, so that all companies will have a guaranteed accounts receivable level, so that they’ll be able to pay increased wages to people who can’t afford the premiums, copays, groceries, mortgages, new shoes… Yeah, that’ll work.
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