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How much is enough?

1 by liberator
SG Defender
Guaranteed medical care. Everybody's talking about it. So how much is enough? How should it be managed? How do you pay for it without raising taxes(as that seems to be the watermark)?

How much is enough? Basic preventative care or only treat when it becomes acute?

How should it be managed? The Medicare system, which everyone seems to be using as the example, is one of the most defrauded failures in modern history. Also, if publicly funded medical care is so great, why are people coming to the USA in droves to receive care here instead of getting it in their home countries?

How do you pay for health care for 350+ million people withou raising taxes?
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3 by liberator
SG Defender
If you do that, they might as well become the 51st state, and I don't think they want that. They get all the benefits and none of the problems.
My first Armageddon has died.

2005.11.25 06:22:57 combat Your Tachyon Beam Laser I perfectly strikes Ruined Stargate, wrecking for
733.8 damage.

5 by Black Wolf
Ascended SG Graduate
Australia has universal free health care, though Howard's trying his best to get rid of it (hopefully it'll last long enough for labour to get back into power and fix it up). The way I see it, if it works with 20 million people, it would work with 350 million as well, because your tax revenues would increase as well as your necessary expenditures. Of course, you'd need a vaguely competent economic policy to get that right, but, well, meh.
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7 by liberator
SG Defender
You're missing the point. The question is how much and what the government covers.

Obviously any cosmetic surgery is right out, except in the case of reconstructive surgery after an accident or major illness. That extends to any elective surgery, from boob jobs to pectoral implants to Godonlyknowswhat.

Understand, I don't actually oppose the government providing some guarenteed level of level of care as long as the patient has the option of seeking additional private care.

What I fear is a bunch of lowlifes, doctors and patients, milking it like they do medicare and the welfare system.

It makes me sick to drive by government housing and see all these people living in cinder block houses by the hundreds, and yet not one of them drives an older car(like me) and every single inhabited building have ****ing Direct TV. They live better than I do(appoximately 60 sqft to call my own,and even that belongs to my dad), don't do a damn thing to get off of welfare, while I scrape and scrimp on a minimal stipend from my parents and can't even get a job and ****ing Wal-Mart.(And people wonder why I'm depressed sometimes.)
My first Armageddon has died.

2005.11.25 06:22:57 combat Your Tachyon Beam Laser I perfectly strikes Ruined Stargate, wrecking for
733.8 damage.

8 by castor
SG Trainee
Maybe it was manageable, if people started to live more healthier lives.

There is no end of cost in horizon, if we don't get the resposibility of ourselves, but always expect medicine, technology, politicians(?), police etc. fix what is broken.
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13 by Black Wolf
Ascended SG Graduate
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Meh: Sectorgame > Hard Light Productions. (more reliable too)
The wheel certainly turns doesn't it. I bet WCSAGA are pulling their hair out now :P
Muah ha ha... :D

Castor: Welcome to SG, but, err... why is your vasudan blue?
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14 by Moonsword
Elite SG Elder
They're still working over at the CIC. Granted, if they have anything they want me to do, they'd better e-mail me since I don't have access to the private forums over there.
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15 by aldo
The Blessed One
Black Wolf wrote:
Hunter wrote:
Meh: Sectorgame > Hard Light Productions. (more reliable too)
The wheel certainly turns doesn't it. I bet WCSAGA are pulling their hair out now :P
Muah ha ha... :D

Castor: Welcome to SG, but, err... why is your vasudan blue?
He has no helmet on. In space.
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