The challenge: Medicaid pays less than cost to MANY providers. Not sustainable if you expand it too much more.
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Are the costs higher here than in other countries?
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YES! But unless we have a true single payer system, underpaying by one payer will eventually be met by access problems.
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Agreed. Or nationalize the drug companies and their factories and put the execs in a gulag. or both ideally
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Drug companies are not the major reason why costs are more expensive. Biggest component: LABOR COSTS.
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@matthewstoller said yesterday, you're not paying for health care, you're paying for yachts
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A lot of Trump supporters don't resent poor blacks getting medicaid, but that they don't get it too. Quote: "Why can't we have that?"
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That THESE people put THIS GOP in office is proof of either a pact with Satan or America is near it's last days.
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The reason it's low is because taxpayers make up the difference. We can't afford it anymore.
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@jonathanchait Really wise of the@GOP@SpeakerRyan to shrink it, then!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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We should sprinkel more of this popular program all around
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@TheDemocrats You made the vulnerable when you didn't include a public option. Remember this next time.#Trumpcare -
Please forward this to Joe Lieberman. He personally killed the public option.
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No one is sad to see Lieberman gone; what was Al Gore thinking on that one?
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If only DC Dems had fought like hell for ACA and marketed the benefits to these folks for 7+ years instead of letting R's have open field.
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It's the cultural anxieties
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