• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    So all the healthcare plan is missing is the “healthcare” part and the “plan” part.

    Sounds about par for the course 😮‍💨

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    At this point he should be impeached again just for wasting everyone’s time

    (Impeachment is useless, I know. It’s a joke)

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    10 years of talking about a healthcare plan, and it is a single page with not much to go on.

    It’s like he had someone list talking points for a speech, where they would avoid any questions about how they planned to bring down the costs other than, “have them list their prices and claim denials.”

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      Of course he wants to make more drugs “over the counter” so doctor Google can prescribe expensive medicines you likely don’t need and ditch the real doctor.

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        And the bit about sending government subsidies to taxpayers for them to buy insurance instead of directly funding insurance companies…

        I guess it’s not socialism if you get the money first?

        These fucking morons have no functioning brain cells… If daddy Trump says it then it’s good. If a Democrat says the same fucking thing then it’s evil communism socialism death panel insurance scam…

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      None of these are material financial levers that would drive down healthcare costs. Overhead and claims payments are visible in health insurance companies’ public financials. Displaying denial rates doesn’t change denial rates. More otc seems like it has potential for abuse by patients i.e., creating unsafe environments where people have carte blanche access to drugs (could see it maybe modestly lowering prices for a subset of medication) - prices on the wall? When your appendix bursts, good luck going shopping for the best price. What are you gonna do, die in the lobby while “shopping”?

      This “plan” is a bad joke. While for profit health insurance has it’s inefficiencies and misaligned incentives, the answer is NOT this - it’s clearly single payer.

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      3 hours ago

      Yeah I was gonna say. This sounds more like a proposal you would make on the campaign trail than an actual plan

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      This looks like it was written by a group of 5th graders, who got bored half way through the assignment and hurriedly finished it so they could go outside with the rest of the class, after they had spent the first 30mins eating pencil erasers.

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    The surprising part is that people are still alarmed by this. I mean, come on. What were they expecting? Something halfway decent from the president of Venezuela? Maybe the FIFA peace prize winner and his henchmen were going to deliver a 305 page triumph over the corruption and greed that is our healthcare system? Set your expectations lower than what you expect and you will rarely be disappointed. In this case, the floor is standard and you’ll break out even.

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      I mean this is a pretty easy task, how are they fucking it up so badly?! You look at countries with affordable effective health care, then copy their work. It’s not like they’ve copyrighted their legislation. Hell most of them will probably help you implement what they’ve done and tell you all about the pain points if you ask nicely.