ZASHAGALKA RN

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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I wasn't suggesting the NEXT Administration would be Republican, although, that's not as unlikely as you hope. But, there WILL be a NEXT Republican Administration, at some point. THAT Administration...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Exactly my point. The idea of gov't restricted care is ideological. It certainly has nothing to do with universal access. We could do that far short of a wholesale takeover of a large part of the...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    On the bright side, it doesn't really matter what kind of single payor system could get passed. The consequence of bypassing the enumerated powers is that gov't HAS INDEED sold out its checks and...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    But that IS the proposal: let the gov't be the owner. If Uncle Daddy pays; Uncle Daddy decides. The customer isn't the end user; the customer is the buyer. Under gov't restricted healthcare, your...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It's very difficult for me to imagine (humming Johnny) how you are SO distrustful of the current Administration, however, you have so much FAITH in that same gov't to be any kind of fair or any less...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    To answer your specific question, look at the relatively UNREGULATED drug market: look at OTC drugs. If you really need an ibuprofen, how much would it cost? Hundred bucks a month, you say? Of course...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The free market provides you with pencils for a dime. Do you know how many materials go into making a pencil? Do you know how many hands are at work? And yet. Fine quality, excellent pricing. It...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No of course you're not asking about the areas of healthcare where the free market has been left to work. You don't want to hear about the REAL success stories of combining the best of quality and...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Catastrophic care would kick in both with a single major illness, OR, with a high amount of deductibles (chronic care). It would STILL be far cheaper than what we have today, which isn't insurance,...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The reality is that the primary method France has employed to keep costs low is to pay their doctors squat. As a result, they don't have nearly enough providers. AS A RESULT, France is giving serious...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The financing of healthcare today IS inconsistent with cost control. That's not because of profit motive. That is because THE GOVERNMENT is interfering with the financing of healthcare, both with...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The law of supply and demand actually does work, when demand isn't artificially propped up by gov't and when the gov't's hand isn't on the scale. You point out the effect of the gov't's hand on the...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Your solution is the cause of all this. Gov't financing schemes means that YOU don't pay for your care. Thus, organizations scheme to game the real financing system: gov't supplied and gov't backed...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This IS MY POINT. How would this be different than the ideological nature of the next Republican Administration's healthcare professional economists? You want to place healthcare in the hands of...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The evidence on the world stage is that everywhere socialism has been thrown off for competitive markets, prosperity has risen, dramatically. The world's prosperity is exploding, thanks to the free...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Name me ONE thing you buy in the open market that doesn't list its price, up front. Do you go to the counter with a gallon of milk just HOPING it won't be too expensive, today? No. You know the price...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Monopolies, even gov't run ones, are not known for quality or thrift. The best mix of quality and price is very possible with healthcare. The same way such a combination always results: the free...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Providers are not independent of the gov't if they are DEPENDENT on the gov't for payment. Life isn't that Polly Anna. The buyer is the customer. The buyer is the consumer. This is JUST THE PROBLEM...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I find the concept of gov't economist to be oxymoronic. Didn't YOU just dismiss stats I cited, in another thread, about income parity BECAUSE they were compiled by the Treasure Dept, in your opinion,...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Until they attach so many strings to that private insurance that it either bankrupts the companies or bankrupts you to afford it. This is what is being done now. Do you know WHY 47 million people...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So long as your patients aren't the consumers of their own care, they will never have the autonomy to be the directors of their care. YOUR patients have a more vested interest in their health outcomes...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    NO. Motivated self-interested, under the pressure of competition, is the best situation for all parties involved. Always has been. Insurance companies are shielded by gov't from having to compete...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Fox transcripts lots of stuff on its site. Please cite this. I don't think MSA would work, ALONE, either. Combine it with unhitching insurance from employment, and making insurance actually insurance...
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    A majority of Americans would tolerate higher taxes to help pay for universal health

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    https://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-019.html "Fortunately, there is a solution to the predicament (gov't interference in the financing of healthcare). The key is recognizing exactly what is driving...