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Feb 13, 2016
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Sure. Until it happens . easy to say you'd be OK with others dying.
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So those who agree with this post... If you can't afford cancer treatment don't get it?
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True Conservative
2/13/16 12:00pm
Speaking of healthcare, I think that guy in your sig has Down syndrome.
SouthernCoug
2/13/16 12:04pm
I agree with it and I work in healthcare
KingDave
2/13/16 12:07pm
So if your kid had cancer you'd let them die? I doubt it
Deleted
2/13/16 12:12pm
No, I'd pay for them to get treatment until I couldn't afford to anymore
KingDave
2/13/16 12:15pm
So unless you have a couple of hundred thousand in the bank you would be OK with public policy allowing them to die
Deleted
2/13/16 12:17pm
Yes I would
KingDave
2/13/16 12:18pm
Sure. Until it happens . easy to say you'd be OK with others dying.
Deleted
2/13/16 12:19pm
No you wouldn't. That's just stupid, and you know it. You're fine saying it now because your kid isn't dying.
The Underminer
2/13/16 12:20pm
For most of the past 10 years I've been caring for patients, some of which
KingDave
2/13/16 12:23pm
I had a dog growing up named Bart. He was part lab.
The Underminer
2/13/16 12:32pm
We're not even talking about that. We're talking about a kid with a curable
shimmy
2/13/16 12:34pm
Thats not the same as just quitting because you've run out of money.
Dillinger
2/13/16 12:35pm
But I'd also have health insurance to help with the cost
KingDave
2/13/16 12:20pm
So you basically didn't understand the question whatsoever.
shimmy
2/13/16 12:27pm
Your stance here tells me you've never actually taken care of a sick kid.
Virginia Ute
2/13/16 1:45pm
Maybe the biggest lie ever on CB
spugeddy24
2/13/16 12:30pm
You'd prefer that option over properly run catastrophic insurance? That is
shimmy
2/13/16 12:26pm
That wasn't the question, now was it?
KingDave
2/13/16 12:43pm
That wasn't the question. The question is if you agreed with the linked plan,
shimmy
2/13/16 12:51pm
Well never mind then
KingDave
2/13/16 1:42pm
And you're full of it
Cougarealist
2/13/16 5:00pm
It's impossible to have a reasonable discussion about healthcare. Everyone who
shimmy
2/13/16 12:07pm
True. Though I don't know how to fund most of the innovation without also paying
YIsForBrigham
2/13/16 1:36pm
how do you allocate limited resources in a capitalistic society?
ds7
2/13/16 12:11pm
This isn't exclusively a conservative/liberal problem. Plenty of conservatives
shimmy
2/13/16 12:16pm
even w/ a complete reset...you either have "death panels" or limit access
ds7
2/13/16 12:18pm
FTR, I'm totally cool with death panels. Somebody has to make the tough
shimmy
2/13/16 12:24pm
go for it...and watch an alternate concierge medical complex spring up and
ds7
2/13/16 12:33pm
If you think I'm advocating single payer then you've misread my stance.
shimmy
2/13/16 12:39pm
no...you and i agree to a degree...
ds7
2/13/16 12:41pm
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I don't think we do disagree. I'm assuming
shimmy
2/13/16 12:57pm
And I would argue the problem right now is too much government influence. Not
YIsForBrigham
2/13/16 1:38pm
Why is that an argument? The rich people come to America?
Dillinger
2/13/16 1:06pm
currently, we also get those who can't pay...
ds7
2/13/16 1:12pm
Yeah, that's an issue. But can you blame them?
Dillinger
2/13/16 1:15pm
LOL
bluebloodedcoug
2/13/16 1:27pm
Your math is impeccable.
Dillinger
2/13/16 1:29pm
ds7 at the border
Dillinger
2/13/16 1:34pm
i've been to many foreign countries...every time...they check my passport
ds7
2/13/16 2:26pm
Bet you could sneak into any of them if you tried too.
Dillinger
2/13/16 2:37pm
and when i got caught...do you think they'd give me and my children
ds7
2/13/16 2:49pm
Pretty sure that doesn't happen in the US. But I don't know. I'm not european.
Dillinger
2/13/16 2:50pm
The problem with US healthcare is, and always has been, cost (imo)
SouthernCoug
2/13/16 12:22pm
Society as a whole benefits from covering the cost of curing productive, young
Virginia Ute
2/13/16 1:26pm
i read a report that 80% of all medical costs are currently incurred in the last
ds7
2/13/16 2:27pm
I think it is that 80% come from the first three or last three months of life
bluebloodedcoug
2/13/16 2:31pm
Yeah, it's something like that.
Virginia Ute
2/13/16 2:39pm
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