The PPACA Thread Part V: Doctor! Doctor! Give me the news!

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Re: The PPACA Thread Part V: Doctor! Doctor! Give me the news!

Extreme Triage??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/17/nhs-provokes-fury-indefinite-surgery-ban-smokers-obese/

Seems like as a country, we need to convince Republicans that liberals will really hate it if they all ate a lot of sugar, and smoked a lot. Let Coke and Winston sponsor the next convention.

Combine that with the plan for healthcare that's the best that dump can come up with, and we can get rid of a lot of republican voters very naturally.

 

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Re: The PPACA Thread Part V: Doctor! Doctor! Give me the news!

Not only that, but evidently this person thinks income tax is the only way the government gets money. How did the country survive for ~125 years prior to 1913?

No social security. No public welfare. No big corporate farms providing a consistent supply of food. No public schooling beyond about 8th grade. No interstate highway system. No air/seaports. Greatly reduced interstate and international commerce. No real healthcare - illnesses and deaths were largely viewed as "God's will". A military that got by on state militias and the hunting rifles of soldiers. In short - a poorer, dumber, more rural population, that tended to die much younger. OK for 1817, not so great in 2017.

But yeah, what have taxes ever done for society?