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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @07:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @07:38AM (#673626)

    Over ten thousand people die from preventable medical issues every year in the US because they don't have adequate access to healthcare, often because they cannot afford it. This is the context that you completely ignore. Even if you can point to several cases of single payer systems screwing up (and I'm sure you legitimately can), the US system is so much worse.

    Then there are the medical bankruptcies that happen frequently in the US. You manage to get care, but then are stuck with crushing debt. Great.

    In each case, group of people running hospitals in the UK decided that they should die. (totally not a "death panel", right?)

    I'd say people being denied health insurance because of preexisting conditions - which was allowed before the ACA - qualifies as a "death panel." People being unable to seek medical help because they know they can't afford it also qualifies. But you don't seem to care about either of those.

    You focus on some bad things in single payer systems while completely ignoring the much worse issues in our for-profit price-gouging fake free market system. You are a profoundly dishonest person, and your propaganda is rancid.

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