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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady
So basically, you think that health care should be a not for profit business, as well as colleges, because all these problems would be solved if health care facilities and practioners didn't charge so much for their services, and colleges could simply reduce cost.
Let's talk about your "mythical" college. You do realize that tuition is not simply made up of what it costs to pay the professor right? There is the maintenance of the building, how the school is accredited, the administrative personnel, the security personnel, the janitorial staff, the landscaping staff, extra curricular activities (that do raise money and value of the school), and most especially the quality of the education. Rutgers law school is a good school, but not as good as Seton Hall.
So, having more students to pay the costs of the building maintenance, the professor, and all the other non-education staff isn't going to lower the cost of going to school for a student? Must be that new math that's all the rage. My "old school" math tells me otherwise.
Accreditation for medical schools is handled by how many agencies? How much does it cost for accreditation?
What do they call the worst student at Rutgers that graduated from medical school, and what do they call the best student graduating from medical school at Seton Hall (taking the assumption that both have medical schools)? Or, change Rutgers to University of Toledo (which does have a medical school) and Seton Hall to Harvard. What are those people called?
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You pay $42 a visit to your doctor? It's really no wonder you don't really grasp the reality of the situation. My private physician costs me $95 a visit. Do I believe he is a better doctor than someone in my area who charges $42 a visit? Yes, actually I do. The Medicaid physicians, by the way, get paid about $25 dollars a visit.
I'm not seeing the point you are making there. Is your doctor visit more expensive because it's a specialist vs. mine being a GP? I actually like my physician a lot. He has never done wrong by me.
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Likewise with your medications, you are lucky that yours are so inexpensive. Mine are not, they cost between $500 and $700 a month, and yes, those which can be generic are generic. Yep, I'm a diabetic, but diabetes isn't caused by an unhealthy lifestyle, although yes it CAN be a contributing factor. But because I have diabetes, I also need to take blood pressure medication, even though I don't have high blood pressure. I also have kidney stone disease, and I don't mean I get a stone every couple of years, suffer through a week or so of trying to pass it. I mean I had more than 8 stones removed last year, they don't pass, and no matter what I do they will develop, and they will require surgery.
I do consider myself lucky to be a basically healthy person. And, there is insurance available to people to help them lower their medical costs. And, I'm sorry you have as many health issues as you do. I don't wish that on anyone, ever.
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So basically your beef with Obamacare is that you don't want to have pay to have health insurance. Meanwhile, should you suffer some catastrophic health event, you will then not be able to pay the bill (sorry, but you don't qualify as more than lower to middle middle class or your job would provide insurance), and then you will be complaining how you can't afford to eat, keep a roof over your head or anything else because of these horrific medical bills, or you will be looking for charity care to help defray the costs and that's ok, because the hospital charged to much for their services, and the doctor shouldn't forward the costs of their education on to you.
I do have an issue with mandated insurance purchasing. I do believe it's my right to decide what I purchase and what I don't purchase. And, it's my responsibility to deal with the consequences of those choices.
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Then you think a 2% cap on malpractice suits is appropriate. So you actually think you can put a value on someone who loses their legs by a doctor's negligence, or the person who will need daily medical care for their injuries due to the doctor's screw up. Who will absorb that cost again?
The 2% is tazzy's number, not mine.
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It's really easy to stomp your feet and say you don't like a program, but when you show over and over again that you really don't understand the implications facing the current system, you aren't really making much of a point.
What implications do I not understand?
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What I support:
- A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
- Personal Responsibility
- Help for the truly needy
- Limited Government
- Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
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