Do you support Universal Health Care?

[Ban my account ffs!]

My friend pinched a nerve in her neck at work.  She was treated within 2 hours after the incident.  On a Saturday night.  In the ER.

Now I understand why you're all against government health care... because where you live, even a private system is dysfunctional.  I'm sorry for you.

[minionofmidas]

Universal, tax-financed healthcare that covers all necessities but not every expensive new fad.
When people want extra luxuries, let em pay for em via private insurance - but don't subsidize that.

[Jake]

BTW, I support Universal Single Payer Health Care, but only covering things like yearly or twice yearly physicals, catastrophic care, and medicine for seniors and children. The government shouldn't be paying for some idiot parent taking Johnny to the doctor five times in the winter because he has the sniffles.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

BTW, I support Universal Single Payer Health Care, but only covering things like yearly or twice yearly physicals, catastrophic care, and medicine for seniors and children. The government shouldn't be paying for some idiot parent taking Johnny to the doctor five times in the winter because he has the sniffles.

That sounds like the IP candidate for Senate's last year plan. He made this analogy: "Auto insurance covers car accidents, not oil changes". I'll admit it's better than the current situation and might be eaiser to push through.

[minionofmidas]

BTW, I support Universal Single Payer Health Care, but only covering things like yearly or twice yearly physicals, catastrophic care, and medicine for seniors and children. The government shouldn't be paying for some idiot parent taking Johnny to the doctor five times in the winter because he has the sniffles.

That sounds like the IP candidate for Senate's last year plan. He made this analogy: "Auto insurance covers car accidents, not oil changes". I'll admit it's better than the current situation and might be eaiser to push through.

Sounds good in principle, but may sadly be impossible to enforce.

[opebo]

BTW, I support Universal Single Payer Health Care, but only covering things like yearly or twice yearly physicals, catastrophic care, and medicine for seniors and children. The government shouldn't be paying for some idiot parent taking Johnny to the doctor five times in the winter because he has the sniffles.

Preventative care is precisely what prevents the catastrophic expenditures, as well as raises the level of public health generally.

Of course on the other hand we can't expect even a French-style medical system to save people from poverty - if wages aren't raised people will still be very prone to ill-health.

[minionofmidas]

BTW, I support Universal Single Payer Health Care, but only covering things like yearly or twice yearly physicals, catastrophic care, and medicine for seniors and children. The government shouldn't be paying for some idiot parent taking Johnny to the doctor five times in the winter because he has the sniffles.

Preventative care is precisely what prevents the catastrophic expenditures, as well as raises the level of public health generally.

Ah, but as long as people themselves make the choice of going to see the doctor, those who need preventive care least will have most of it.
Nor do I see a way to change that.

[opebo]

Preventative care is precisely what prevents the catastrophic expenditures, as well as raises the level of public health generally.

Ah, but as long as people themselves make the choice of going to see the doctor, those who need preventive care least will have most of it.
Nor do I see a way to change that.

Publicity campaigns... some kind of requirement of an annual checkup to recieve benefits from the system... etc.

[minionofmidas]

some kind of requirement of an annual checkup to recieve benefits from the system... etc.

Oh great, depriving the poor of their healthcare again.

[opebo]

some kind of requirement of an annual checkup to recieve benefits from the system... etc.

Oh great, depriving the poor of their healthcare again.

They all have to come in and let some upper-middle-class prick in a doctor's coat prod/fondle their gonads while they cough (do the girls cough?)

Sounds a bit rough I'll admit.

[minionofmidas]

some kind of requirement of an annual checkup to recieve benefits from the system... etc.

Oh great, depriving the poor of their healthcare again.

They all have to come in and let some upper-middle-class prick in a doctor's coat prod/fondle their gonads while they cough (do the girls cough?)

Sounds a bit rough I'll admit.

No... my point was that some of them will shirk their requirement for an annual checkup. Then what happens when they get sick?

Girls don't cough during checkups, they're diddled.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I never have an annual checkup. I go if something's wrong that's clearly not just a cold. Doesn't happen that often actually. I caught urethritis awhile back that I feared was an STD, but the tests said it wasn't, plus I got prescribed two doses of antibiotics that ended it, so it was a good move.

[Stranger in a strange land]

yes, but not the way that canada or the UK do it.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Absolutely.