So what's going to happen to health care now?

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So, for better or worse, we have a new President. What do you think will be the future of health care and the future of nursing as a profession? Will we be better off as nurses or worse? Will we be better off as patients or worse?

Not looking for a political argument....god knows we've had enough of those in the past few days. Emotions are running high and we all have opinions. I'm just curious as to what we can expect.

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This was the best post I have ever read. I laughed so hard about that turkey sandwich, the costs some of these street urchins rack up though, oh mylanta..

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It was FREE to me, I did not pay a dime for medical or dental. It did not last. What my employer did was their business. I could have cared less.

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Yes, I should have said "some states". I was thinking of California and the university system.

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Hang on, help is coming. The national nightmare will soon end. I know many in the same boat.

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Paul Ryan has said they can use a reconciliation process through the Senate which means they avoid the simple majority. He has been salivating and prepared to do this for years

What it means is that they will effectively ram it down people's throats

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Paul Ryan has said they can use a reconciliation process through the Senate which means they avoid the simple majority. He has been salivating and prepared to do this for years

What it means is that they will effectively ram it down people's throats

I'm a little sorry to say it, because I know it will hurt a lot of people, but I would be delighted to see the GOP repeal the ACA and try to "replace" it with something the GOP would find palatable, and see how that plays with the US public.

As Rep. Alan Grayson so eloquently said during the original ACA debate, the GOP plan for healthcare is "Don't get sick. If you do get sick, die quickly."

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Oops sorry, he is actually being truthful about his evolution on the politicies. Instead of the flaming liars who occupy the Democratic Party. He has stuck to his guns on healthcare only softening on the two currently existing stipulations. No matter what he does, people like yourself are going to criticize and complain. At the end of the day, unless you plan on moving to another country, he is your president. It's better to try and see the positive instead of finding issues with everything. There is a reason he won.

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As some posters have mentioned, health care is never free. Canada has universal health care, but it's the bare minimum. You want frills or extras? Sure, at an added cost.

More importantly, health care is never free. Canadians pay very high taxes for the services we have. It's a tiered system, but roughly 40 percent of my pay every 2 weeks is gone to various taxes.

Do you also have sales tax, state tax, property tax? We pay the same amount in all the taxed as you all do and do not get healthcare for it.

Among the slew of other benefits Canadians have we don't. Trump won because our Govt sucks and is corrupt and broken. It's the ultimate experiment and all of us 60 million plus supporters could be wrong but I don't think so. Our county needs major change

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Oops sorry, he is actually being truthful about his evolution on the politicies. Instead of the flaming liars who occupy the Democratic Party. He has stuck to his guns on healthcare only softening on the two currently existing stipulations. No matter what he does, people like yourself are going to criticize and complain. At the end of the day, unless you plan on moving to another country, he is your president. It's better to try and see the positive instead of finding issues with everything. There is a reason he won.

Trump is the legal president elect, for sure - and elections have consequences, the gutting of the ACA likely one of them.

BUT, don't expect the opposition to roll over and play dead. A two million Clinton majority in the popular vote suggests to me that there's no mandate here. It's unlikely that we'll go gently into that not-so-good night. The "reason he won" does not include the support of the majority of the electorate.

Besides, after the last 8 years of racist snark and mindless obstruction, trumpkins have no business complaining about criticism.

Trump is corrupt and incompetent. It'll be interesting to watch the antics of the neocon republicans now Running things as they try to prove Einstein wrong about expecting different results from doing the same thing over and over.

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BUT, don't expect the opposition to roll over and play dead. A two million Clinton majority in the popular vote suggests to me that there's no mandate here. It's unlikely that we'll go gently into that not-so-good night. The "reason he won" does not include the support of the majority of the electorate.

2.5 million and counting. :)

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There is a reason he won.

yes, that reason would be the electoral college voting system we have instead of a democracy. Almost half of the country's eligible voters didn't want to vote at all rather than vote for him OR her. That means that less than a quarter of voters voted for Trump, with 2.5 million more voting for Clinton than Trump. And a good many people voted for him only because they thought he was the lesser evil than Clinton not because they were behind anything he said. The reason he won isn't because the American people want him in office, they obviously don't want that.

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We are all gonna die!

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