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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020

      The question of "How will you pay for it" re: universal healthcare (or any social program) has two meanings: 1) Where do the resources in the economy exist to do it, and 2) How will you legally and politically create a system to make it happen They are very different questions

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020

      People intentionally confusing the two to score points is very annoying I KNOW that the existing health insurance system is full of waste and if you made it disappear and replaced it with single-payer you'd save money The question is HOW DO YOU DO THAT

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020

      "I would do it by starting a revolution" is not a satisfying answer, at least not when you're promising to get it done sometime in the next five years

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020

      As long as I've been paying attention to this issue the most plausible path toward universal coverage has always been a universal mandate + public option and the public option steadily grows to cover more and more of the population

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020

      This isn't a half measure being proposed because Americans are uniquely recalcitrant capitalists, this is literally what happened in several European countries, whose universal coverage evolved from or in some cases still is a "mixed" system

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020

      But now we're being told this is unacceptable and the only way we will ever see universal coverage is if an iron-fisted President marches into the corporate offices of Blue Cross Blue Shield shouting "Your business is over! To the guillotine with you!" Sorry if I'm skeptical

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020

      Look, I hate the big private insurers too, but they exist now and they're very powerful The NHS in the UK was formed at a time when "health insurance" was only purchased by the rich, most doctor's visits were paid in cash and the NHS was the first insurance most people ever had

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020

          That's not the world we live in anymore and we can't recreate it Path dependency is a thing

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Feb 2020
          Replying to @lewandorkski

          I don't know what point you're trying to make with this, but 1) doctors are still quite well off in places like Canada and the UK, and 2) kicking down all the doctors' doors and saying "Time to give back your stolen profits" is MORE of a fantasy than doing it to the insurers

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        2. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 24 Feb 2020
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          The UK also had a transitional system that wasn't the NHS for 37 years.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance_Act_1911 …

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        3. Guy Branum‏Verified account @guybranum 24 Feb 2020
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          35. why did i say 37?

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        1. D R‏ @Monstorer 24 Feb 2020
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          NHS was formed after hospital system was destroyed in the blitz. Our version can phase in quickly by eliminating the 1% tax break, make Medicare age 55 and covering birth to 26 years old on day one. The rest can shift to Medicare within 18 months if only Amazon paid 35% tax rate.

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        2. David‏ @atonal440 24 Feb 2020
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          I'm actually fairly skeptical of the power of Big Insurance, relative to the power of just the whole healthcare system fighting to prevent a monopsony squeezing their prices.

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        3. David‏ @atonal440 24 Feb 2020
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          Here I used to see ads against that emergency room billing reform measure that were like "don't let Big Insurance and Congress conspire to hurt your local hospital! Fight all payer rate setting!" I worry that's a very effective message.

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