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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
Sounds like several excellent arguments for removing employer paid health care to a single payer system.
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Great minds think alike. I was thinking the same thing as I read ace's post.
Still, it's fun to assume theoretically possible consequences of passing healthcare reform are all somehow likely despite having not demonstrated likelihood. Other consequences there might be:
- Having kids stay on their parent's coverage until age 26 could inspire scientists to develop an anti-aging drug that prevents people from aging past 26, thus allowing people to perpetually stay under their parent's plans. The healthcare industry collapses in a decade and mankind devolves into hunter-gatherers again from a lack of modern medicine. Plants evolve emotions and become the dominant form of life on earth.
- Mandated healthcare in 2014 hits, but no one notices because the earth was destroyed in 2012 by space-Mayans.
- Once preexisting conditions have to be covered by the healthcare industry, people are more lax with the use of radioactive materials and the rates of birth defects and mutations skyrockets. The resulting Mutant Registration Act (or Proposition X), will split the mutant population and cause a civil war. Captain America will be assassinated.
Why was there never an open and transparent debate about sentience in plants?