1engineer
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When you say "most of us" to whom are you referring?
People who at least know who the current president is, can name a few of the SCOTUS members, etc. Believe it or not that is a very small demographic.
When you say "most of us" to whom are you referring?
Something like 80% of poor people don't even vote, so I would hardly credit them with any real influence on election outcomes.
Sixty percent of highly educated voters (those with post-graduate degrees) said earlier this month that they viewed Clinton favorably. That figure has now plummeted to 47%.
Overall, 56% of those in the ABC News/Washington Post poll said they viewed Clinton unfavorably — an increase of six percentage points in three weeks. Among registered voters, Clinton's negative rating rose to 59%.
The UCLA researchers counted a “hidden” public expenditure that other federal studies do not: tax subsidies for employer-based health insurance, Kominski added. That makes up another 12 percent of the state’s health care spending, the data shows.
Nationwide, public funds paid for about 45 percent of the country’s $3 trillion in health care expenditures in 2014 through public insurance programs such as Medicaid, Medicare and programs for low-income children, according to federal data. But that estimate may be too low — it’s probably closer to 65 percent as suggested in a separate national study, according to Kominski.
Because of this new dominance of public spending in health care, the researchers concluded that a single-payer health care system is more feasible than previously believed.
The man lost money with a CASINO!! He can't even run a campaign, how the hell can ANYONE be so dumb as to think he can run the country? :help:
Good read.
http://californiahealthline.org/news..._hsmi=33705355
UCLA Study: Taxpayers Foot 70 Percent Of California’s Health Care Tab
By Ana B. Ibarra
August 31, 2016
This year, taxpayers will cover about 70 percent of what is spent on health care in California, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Many people assume that the U.S. health care system is primarily supported by private dollars, such as insurance premiums from employer-based coverage, said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the study’s lead author.
But that’s no longer the case, at least in California — mostly because of its massive expansion of Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid, he said.
“There’s this myth that we have a mostly privately funded health care system, but we’re approaching a point in which almost three quarters of this system is funded by public money,” Kominski said. “Now a question to ask ourselves is: when do we reach the tipping point and say ‘this is essentially a public system?’”
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Most people aren't aware that expansion of medicaid (state healthcare coverage for the poor, provided FREE) was a key component of the ACA/Obamacare.
Too bad you got banned, I liked you in the 3rd gen section but dont agree with your politics. That's why I dont come in here often, I'm here to talk 4Runners not politics This site is an escape from the real world & just enjoy my hobby.
BUT, 4 Casinos in Atlantic City have gone under. It's not his fault, it's the citys fault for not being able to attract visitors & other casinos opening in NY, PA & CT. Why drive down 3hrs (without Jersey shore traffic) from NYC when you can go up to Mohegan Sun in CT in 1.5hrs.
You see dead people?:lalala:
"We shouldn't have the same healthcare system as the rest of the modern world bc big pharma owning the government is good for America, yeehaw!"
“In 2014, the average patient in Canada could expect to wait almost 10 weeks for medically necessary treatment after seeing specialist,” said the study’s co-author Bacchus Barua
who is the source of your quote? link?
Siñor Parody
I like what Senator Paul has to say RE .gov healthcare.
Healthcare is not a right that should be paid for by the state, states Congressman Ron Paul
“You have a right to your life and you have a right to your liberty and you have a right to keep what you earn in a free country. But you do not have a right to stuff. You do not have the right to services or things, like a house or a job, because in order to get that the government would have to take that from somebody else,” explained the Congressman.
“The most you can expect in a free society is for government to make an attempt at protecting rights, not to try to re-distribute wealth. If you do that – all people will lose their rights,” he asserted.
This is fact almost no one understands. They are a bunch of children who see Government as Santa Clause.