Trump* will get the best healthcare in the world.

Jarod

Jarod

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Compared to most Americans who get Covid, Trump will get great healthcare.

His survival rate is much higher than an average overweight 74 year old.
 
Michael_Panetta said:
And this shows why American healthcare is broken.
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How does it do that, because it isn't Socialized? What's broken is that insurance is used to pay for almost all, if not all, health care. If it were market based for routine care, the prices would be far lower because the buyer / user would be the one seeing and paying the price. The proof of that is that the one sector of health care that isn't driven by insurance, cosmetic surgery, has had prices rise below the rate of inflation.
The same goes for government run health care. It will be more expensive than market driven. Insurance should only be for the exception, the largest bills and occasional serious illness, not for paying for a check up.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
How does it do that, because it isn't Socialized? What's broken is that insurance is used to pay for almost all, if not all, health care. If it were market based for routine care, the prices would be far lower because the buyer / user would be the one seeing and paying the price. The proof of that is that the one sector of health care that isn't driven by insurance, cosmetic surgery, has had prices rise below the rate of inflation.
The same goes for government run health care. It will be more expensive than market driven. Insurance should only be for the exception, the largest bills and occasional serious illness, not for paying for a check up.
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What we need is government oversight to regulate hospital costs and drug costs. Capitalism might say it's ok to charge $700 for a pill that costs $2 to produce, or that it's ok for a hospital to charge $40 for a Band-Aid, but it's morally wrong and the people, by way of the government, can outlaw such practices.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
How does it do that, because it isn't Socialized? What's broken is that insurance is used to pay for almost all, if not all, health care. If it were market based for routine care, the prices would be far lower because the buyer / user would be the one seeing and paying the price. The proof of that is that the one sector of health care that isn't driven by insurance, cosmetic surgery, has had prices rise below the rate of inflation.
The same goes for government run health care. It will be more expensive than market driven. Insurance should only be for the exception, the largest bills and occasional serious illness, not for paying for a check up.
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Just completely wrong again.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
He would regardless. He's got piles of cash unlike you.
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You have no idea how much disposable cash tRump has. That said, his post office healthcare will be top notch. All while he works to "screw over" his adoring peasants by stripping pre-existing conditions.
 
Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
Compared to most Americans who get Covid, Trump will get great healthcare.
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wasn't it mostly the old folks in NY nursing homes wh didn't get great healthcare?......
 
Nordberg said:
Just completely wrong again.
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No, I'm not and you offer nothing to prove otherwise.

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Costs are high because of the administrative overhead associated with paying through insurance rather than a direct customer-provider relationship.

https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.c...know-about-healthcare-economics-in-one-chart/
 
Tacomaman said:
You have no idea how much disposable cash tRump has. That said, his post office healthcare will be top notch. All while he works to "screw over" his adoring peasants by stripping pre-existing conditions.
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He could cash in some of the gold in one of his condos to pay for it...
 
Michael_Panetta said:
What we need is government oversight to regulate hospital costs and drug costs. Capitalism might say it's ok to charge $700 for a pill that costs $2 to produce, or that it's ok for a hospital to charge $40 for a Band-Aid, but it's morally wrong and the people, by way of the government, can outlaw such practices.
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No, that doesn't work. The government might fix prices but that will just limit services to what's affordable at that price. The hospital also has to make up for being forced to provide services regardless of ability to pay. That has closed many emergency rooms across the US particularly in poorer areas when they weren't able to even cover costs due to indigent patients they had to treat even knowing they couldn't pay.
All you are suggesting is tightening up the existing shitty system of paying for healthcare we currently have. The solution isn't more of the same with a stricter bureaucracy but to do away with much of the system and eliminate the middleman--be it private insurers or the government--and return to a market drive healthcare system for the most part.
 
Journalists, beware: This White House can’t be trusted to be truthful about Trump’s h

And when it comes to Trump’s health, he and his minions have a history of dubious statements. His former personal physician, Harold Bornstein, confessed that Trump dictated the doctor’s glowing 2015 letter that “his physical strength and stamina are extraordinary,” and that, if elected, Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” More recently, his trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last November remains all too mysterious; reasonable questions were never satisfactorily answered.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...0127d6-04ba-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html
 
Jarod said:
He has an 85%-90% survival chance.

I would not like those odds.
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Ah, he could sell the gold at a pawn shop no questions asked...

That's still better than Biden. He'd get the Chinese, or the Russians, or maybe the Ukrainians to cough up a million or two for a little quid pro quo and the bills get paid...
 
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