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Originally Posted by rahl
1 in 6 is a false number.
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I was rounding, but yeah 46.6 million out of 300 million as of 2005 is something to be deeply ashamed of as a civilization.
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Originally Posted by rahl
All it means is they don't have private insurance, it groups together all the people who are currently on medicaid/s-chip, people who are eligible for said programs who have not yet signed up and illegal aliens.
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This is where PUB discussions fail. I can verify that this isn't true through citations, but we don't allow those. All I can do is say, "You're wrong," and get stuck in a stalemate.
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Again I ask you why would a doctors office accept a government plan that pays only a fraction of what a private insurance carrier does?
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Universal health care would completely decimate private insurance in savings (private health care has administrative costs of about
$300 billion annually). Private insurers would start going belly up left and right, and the few stubborn conservatives and ultra rich wouldn't be able to support the huge number of physicians that would want to work privately. Some might get lucky, but a vast majority would have to either enter a new profession, which means a waste of 8 years of schooling and god knows how much tuition, or they'd be absorbed into the public system. If they're anything like every other time that a private system has become a public system, most will join the public health care system and do just fine.
Not only that, but over half of US doctors support universal healthcare according to that Reuters newspaper on the bar beside you.
I'm afraid you're not on the right side of this one.