The Truth about the October Healthcare Bills

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The US has had chances at health care reform before, but always blew it's chance because too many people listened to right-wing idiots like the ones on this video. Don't blow it again.

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No savings to be had if you extend coverage to more people? The World Health Care organization ranked the US health care system as 37th in the world. The US is the only advanced nation on earth that hasn't figured out how to cover all citizens. All of the 36 nations which have a better health care system than the US have already extended coverage to ALL citizens, they have better health care outcomes, and those systems cost only a fraction of what the US sytem costs.

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No way will you lower costs without a public option. Since around 1945 insurance co's have been exempted from anti-trust legislation. So in the absence of competition from a public insurance plan, even if insurance co's could compete across state lines, it is not in their best interest to compete on price of premiums. They can collude on prices and it's legal for them. They will compete, as they always have, by advertising and by being best at denying your medical claims.

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No savings to be had by health care reform? The US spend more of it's GDP on health care than any other nation, but with no better health care outcomes. You have allowed insurance co's to cherry pick all the young healthy people that contribute more than they cost and let those contributions go to insurance co CEO profits and mulit-million $ CEO salaries instead of toward health care.