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Blue Jay
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Message 9 of 72 (519452)
08-13-2009 6:51 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Taz
08-13-2009 6:12 PM

Hi, Taz.
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My father is opposed to socialized healthcare because it will require significant raises in taxes to pay for it, and the tax will be taken from everybody, not just the people who choose the public option.
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Thus, the choices, in his mind, are to get the public insurance, or get his own private insurance, and pay for the public insurance anyway. Obviously, if these are the options, nobody is going to pick the latter option, so we'll end up with only one choice for insurance anyway.
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Whether or not this is accurate, I don't personally know. I'm not knowledgeable enough in financial, social or political policies to feel like I can venture my own opinion, but I thought I should throw this one out there.
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-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)
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Blue Jay
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08-14-2009 1:51 PM 		Reply to: Message 16 by caffeine
08-14-2009 9:27 AM

Re: There's private insurance everywhere!
Hi, Caffeine.
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What you're saying makes sense (except "poliklinika" ---I assume that means "public clinic" or something like that).
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So, the only difference will be that poor people who can't afford good healthcare will at least get some healthcare?
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That doesn't sound bad.
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Edited by Bluejay, : Minor adjustments
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Blue Jay
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Message 19 of 72 (519531)
08-14-2009 1:52 PM 		Reply to: Message 12 by Taz
08-13-2009 10:18 PM

Hi, Taz.
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Taz writes:
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Two-thirds of the proposed program can already be paid by current budgets.
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So, they just had some money sitting around somewhere?
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What were those budgets doing before?
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-Bluejay (a.k.a. Mantis, Thylacosmilus)
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