Trump literally had no plan for healthcare, and his supporters cheered as he yelled about repealing Obamacare from their government funded Rascal Scooters.

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Well, if you perceive Obamacare as a Trojan Horse for single payer healthcare then it makes sense.

I think we are starting to see the first signs of that being the plan all along. You can't repeal it because people will lose insurance! Now, the next Democrat pushes the ball forward and gets more people reliant on government healthcare and then the same process happens until eventually all of us have Congress making our medical decisions for us.

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Congress only wants to tell WOMEN what they can and can't do with their bodies. Men will be fine.

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Trump said during that first ABC News interview that his preference was to let Obamacare just implode on its own. Then the Dems would own it forever. Not sure if what we see now is a backward way of doing that (I doubt it)?

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Let me start with my standard "the ACA is a disaster in regards to the regulations imposed on private insurers and the mandate on consumers to purchase private 'insurance' (it's not insurance)". And to describe the ACA as "free government insurance" is wrong. It provides access to health care (in theory) with subsidies for poor people. There's a lot wrong with it, without question.

That said, Rick, I just have one question regarding your opposition to any form of government-run health care funding systems. (it's not government run health care unless the government employs the doctors and health professionals). Anyway, what would you do about people who are taken to the emergency room who don't have health "insurance"? Should they be thrown out on the street? Because the reality is that we are all going to pay for their health care in the form of premiums or taxes. Additionally, what about terminally ill patients who don't have insurance? Let them die? What free market solution do you have in today's age that allows us to try to get the poorest among us to have some sort of risk transfer mechanism in the event that they need millions of dollars in procedures to stay alive? I'm all ears.

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All those poor sick people need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and...move.

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I'm not against the government picking up the tab for the poor any more than I'm against food stamps or housing assistance or welfare.

I simply don't want my only logical choice for health insurance to come from the government.

As for the "terminally ill" I would also at least consider a government sponsored "catastrophic care" plan for everyone. The specifics on how it would happen is too complex for me to explain besides in general that it would protect the average person from the massive medical bills that can happen. It also should lower health insurance costs since companies would lose the danger of massive expenses for one person. However, that isn't really needed to answer your question.

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I'm really waiting to see the big repeal of NAFTA. I'm really wondering when that is going to be put on the table.

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OK. There might be some good stuff there, but I still wonder about people who choose not to purchase health "insurance." What if there's a young guy in his 20's who decides not to purchase health insurance, and he gets shot in the face in Knoxville, IL. He is stabilized and transported to a hospital in Peoria where there are actual, modern health care experts. He is already stabilized (on our dime) and they inform him that the bullet lodged in his brain will begin to cause severe damage the longer it is left in. He is told that within a month, his cognitive functioning will rapidly decrease leading to death within a few months. Should we remove the bullet free of charge or send him on his way since he doesn't have health insurance?

I'm honestly not educated on how the various non-single payer systems throughout the world address this, but I'd be curious to hear if anyone knows.

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Knoxville has some pretty vindictive insurance salespeople. Holy shit.

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He would get it fixed but it would be expensive for him. The government probably fills some of the bill but he's paying a lot too.

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Scooter delivers oxygen tanks, so it's not him.

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And Scooter doesn't even need a GPS.

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He's on welfare in Knoxville. How is he gonna pay?

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Actually, the rednecks in Knoxville would never accept welfare - out of principle. They would just work minimum wage for a millionaire farmer who receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in government welfare while bitching about black people who have flip phones.

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Nevertheless, JORR's question is a good and obvious one. You can say he's gonna pay for it, but that's never gonna happen... And we will all foot the bill.

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Well if he is poor then we pay but that was already part of it with medicaid. He would have some financial responsibility and the government is very good at getting you to pay up.

In any system the government is covering the poor. There isn't a major reason to worry about it.

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There is if you're poor and losing a foot from diabeetus!

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Isn't there also an illegal immigration element? The story was always they show up to the ER can't or don't pay and no method to get them to.

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