I'm aware of that, but you get what you can afford and do your best to stay healthy. I can't afford $5K a year in premiums on a fixed income.
British people react to American medical expenses
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I'm aware of that, but you get what you can afford and do your best to stay healthy. I can't afford $5K a year in premiums on a fixed income.
hawkeyetraveler
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Maybe instead of voting for Trump in the next election you should consider someone who will actually attempt to fix the insurance issues in our country so you can afford the coverage you deserve. I wish nothing but the best of health for you, but as we all get older the risk of health issues rises dramatically. Trump has done zero to address this issue since promising a plan ages ago.
Yup, she should vote for Warren. Her calculator says it would be free in all cases.
Eventually? With crappy health care. With no incentive to improve it, the brightest minds will start taking their ideas to industries where they can profit.
We have the most expensive healthcare because we have the best healthcare.
But you guys keep on doing you. You are good at it.
One interesting thing about ED meds is that they are very useful in treating pulmonary hypertension in premature infants. An entirely unintended benefit.
It was actually the intended benefit. Sildenafil was initially developed as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension but then had the unexpected side effect of increasing erectile function.
Not really joking, you seem rather knowledgeable in the area.
Fourteen years of higher education does have some benefit.
Plausible, but again look at the percentage of their revenue that is reinvested into research and development versus administrative bloat and returns to shareholders.
Sweet jesus, so 10 years beyond college? 4 years for med school, and another 6 for a phd in something?
They will vote with pharma and make up some BS about the Democrats and what's in the bill. That's what they do.
Is there a link to any proposal that has detailed information about what it would cost in payroll taxes to have Medicare for all?
Seems to me anybody that is serious about it should be able to use a pencil and calculator and tell us what the tax rate would need to be. I assume it would be like social security where employers and employees both contribute.
lay it out there. If it’s truly that awesome people will jump at it regardless of party. Nobody is going to say “just keep Fing me over as long as my team is in power”.
Bernie tossed out $10,000 tax. If that’s per adult I would prefer my current situation quite frankly. If it’s per family I am very interested.
if nobody can do that maybe they should stop the political grandstanding and get busy with a pencil and get back to the American people when they got something.
perhaps a baby step, just push for government to negotiate drug prices for Medicare.
Seems to me anybody that is serious about it should be able to use a pencil and calculator and tell us what the tax rate would need to be. I assume it would be like social security where employers and employees both contribute.
lay it out there. If it’s truly that awesome people will jump at it regardless of party. Nobody is going to say “just keep Fing me over as long as my team is in power”.
Bernie tossed out $10,000 tax. If that’s per adult I would prefer my current situation quite frankly. If it’s per family I am very interested.
if nobody can do that maybe they should stop the political grandstanding and get busy with a pencil and get back to the American people when they got something.
perhaps a baby step, just push for government to negotiate drug prices for Medicare.
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Returns to shareholders is not a bad thing like you are suggesting. They are the owners of the company after all and the profits belong to them. As does the risk. The shareholders deserve the profits.
Administrative bloat is an easy thing to attack isn't it? How much is due to regulation required to bring products to market?
Not suggesting shareholder returns are a bad thing. Just pointing out that it is 150% of the revenue that goes toward research and development in the context of a conversation about drug development.
Government yes, but overall monetary expenditure per person is much high in the US and we get less value.
