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Timmygoat

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20. Thom Hartmann 100% correct

Mon Jul 10, 2017, 01:37 PM

Jul 2017

I am originally from the UK, have lived in other European countries, never seen anyone worried about the cost of health care, it is either -no cost, or a small fraction of the cost, different European countries have slightly different approaches, but they are all pretty good. Canada is pretty good too. I was astonished when I first learned about the cost of US healthcare, and that people make a profit from illness. The cost of administration is all that happens in many country, the doctors are paid a good salary but do not expect massive salaries like in the US.
I think stockholders in the large insurance companies are like vultures picking the bones of the sick.

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E X A C T L Y. [View all] kpete Jul 2017 OP

+1 liberal N proud Jul 2017 #1

K&R... spanone Jul 2017 #2

Thank you, kpete! SalviaBlue Jul 2017 #3

Right the fuck there! Iggo Jul 2017 #4

But, but............. MyOwnPeace Jul 2017 #5

K&R. nt tblue37 Jul 2017 #6

Incorrect, wrong, and he isn't a doctor snooper2 Jul 2017 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author LittleGirl Jul 2017 #13

When profit is you main focus, not healthcare onit2day Jul 2017 #17

Well, not exactly Mountain Mule Jul 2017 #26

In Canada our taxes pay for healthcare robbob Jul 2017 #28

😪 it's a sin, what private profit does. BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2017 #30

Had the same experience living in Ontario as a teenager B Stieg Jul 2017 #41

So the Swiss, instead of paying their government through taxes, luvtheGWN Jul 2017 #45

I had no idea Hartmann had a PhD. In fact I don't think he finished college. YOHABLO Jul 2017 #8

He has a Ph.D. from Looneytunes U. ucrdem Jul 2017 #12

Ha ha ha. progressoid Jul 2017 #29

He has an honorary degree... Trial_By_Fire Jul 2017 #16

in homeopathy snooper2 Jul 2017 #18

What he claims, I believe, is mostly true. So it would have been better to have said "most". YOHABLO Jul 2017 #38

We're supposed to be the party that respects facts and data.... ehrnst Jul 2017 #9

Nonsense. You're cherry picking. Look at Germany onit2day Jul 2017 #19

Nonsense. The meme didn't say "Germany" ehrnst Jul 2017 #27

Germany (2012), hospitals: 833 public, 1,040 private non-profit, 1,356 private for-profit. ucrdem Jul 2017 #40

Exactement! Mme. Defarge Jul 2017 #10

They probably also don't graduate their MD's with $300K of debt. Barack_America Jul 2017 #11

+1,000!!! AgadorSparticus Jul 2017 #14

K & R cate94 Jul 2017 #15

Thom Hartmann 100% correct Timmygoat Jul 2017 #20

The lobbyists for Big Pharma and Insur Co. are basically killing us help with help from the GOP. BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #21

Just the way Republicans want it... LakeArenal Jul 2017 #22

Yup...we have had generations of people live and die with this system so Bromwell Jul 2017 #23

I've worked for both for and non profit healthcare orgs mcar Jul 2017 #24

They also have better outcomes. Mickju Jul 2017 #25

TickTickTickTickTickTick. Oh I wish benld74 Jul 2017 #31

"For Profit" and "health care" should Lifelong Protester Jul 2017 #32

Dr Thom? Please spare me. GeorgeGist Jul 2017 #33

EXACTLY is right. nt Honeycombe8 Jul 2017 #34

Thom Hartmann has owned for profit businesses IronLionZion Jul 2017 #35

TRUTH southerncrone Jul 2017 #36

that isn't the entire reason dsc Jul 2017 #37

This turns out to be mostly false. ucrdem Jul 2017 #39

When I lived in Australia, they called it . . . MrModerate Jul 2017 #44

k and r...nt Stuart G Jul 2017 #42

And, frighteningly, tens of thousands of medical billing clerks . . . MrModerate Jul 2017 #43