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[–] Aldo 2 points 0 points (+2|-2) ago  (edited ago)

Or have the government expand medicare for all so no business has to pay for healthcare, we may pay a little more in taxes but not having to pay for healthcare would be about the same. Plus prices would stabilize instead of being made up and negotiated down by insurance.

Edit: Also watched the video. Maybe she should take better care of her employees? Nothing in the USA says that businesses are allowed to continue to expand and grow and grow? I agree that its a large burden on small-employers, but so is providing a nice building and work environment.

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[–] LewsTherinTelamon 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I'm not really in favor of inserting another layer of bueracracy between myself and healthcare.

Also before we go expanding medicare I would suggest we figure out how to pay for it...

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160622/NEWS/160629973

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[–] Aldo 3 points -3 points (+0|-3) ago 

I don't see a big difference:

Now its: Doctor -> Insurance Company -> You

Government care: Doctor -> Government -> You

The government doesn't make money off you like an insurance company does so your costs should go down. We all hate bureaucracy, but even companies have layers and layers of bureaucracy and they try to squeeze out profit when they can as well.

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[–] SuperSaiyanCock 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Problem is the government doesn't negotiate anything so this will do nothing in stopping rising healthcare costs.

Higher healthcare costs higher taxes in this instance.

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[–] Aldo ago 

Republicans can push to repeal part of the law that prevents the government from negotiating drug prices, that would go a long way to help medicare part D, then the insurance companies can use that as a starting point for their negotiations and reduce the cost of prescriptions.