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[Kirkland Laing]

So you admit the socialised Medicare system is the best part of the US system. Well done Woti.

I responded with "Where did I type that?" to which you replied

But Medicare does work far better than the private/employer pays system.

That is not how debates work Kirkland. When I ask a question I expect an answer, if one is not provided to me and you continue on with your own train of thought regardless of what I have asked then you're just living in your own little bubble Kirk.

*crickets*

Yup, I'm still waiting on a proper response to my initial question *crickets* indeed

I didn't originally admit Obamacare was a failure. And because I didn't directly state that it was you then said "so you admit it's a failure then". I just turned your third grade rhetorical device back on you with the Medicare question.

[El Kabong]

So you admit the socialised Medicare system is the best part of the US system. Well done Woti.

I responded with "Where did I type that?" to which you replied

But Medicare does work far better than the private/employer pays system.

That is not how debates work Kirkland. When I ask a question I expect an answer, if one is not provided to me and you continue on with your own train of thought regardless of what I have asked then you're just living in your own little bubble Kirk.

*crickets*

Yup, I'm still waiting on a proper response to my initial question *crickets* indeed

I didn't originally admit Obamacare was a failure. And because I didn't directly state that it was you then said "so you admit it's a failure then". I just turned your third grade rhetorical device back on you with the Medicare question.

You said of Medicare and I quote

You already have nanny state healthcare in America for everybody over 65 and it's the only part of your healthcare system that works.

Meaning every other part of our healthcare system does not work......Obamacare would fall under "every other part of our healthcare system" because Obamacare is our current healthcare system AND Obamacare=/= Medicare.

Your turn cunt flaps

[Kirkland Laing]

So you admit the socialised Medicare system is the best part of the US system. Well done Woti.

I responded with "Where did I type that?" to which you replied

But Medicare does work far better than the private/employer pays system.

That is not how debates work Kirkland. When I ask a question I expect an answer, if one is not provided to me and you continue on with your own train of thought regardless of what I have asked then you're just living in your own little bubble Kirk.

*crickets*

Yup, I'm still waiting on a proper response to my initial question *crickets* indeed

I didn't originally admit Obamacare was a failure. And because I didn't directly state that it was you then said "so you admit it's a failure then". I just turned your third grade rhetorical device back on you with the Medicare question.

You said of Medicare and I quote

You already have nanny state healthcare in America for everybody over 65 and it's the only part of your healthcare system that works.

Meaning every other part of our healthcare system does not work......Obamacare would fall under "every other part of our healthcare system" because Obamacare is our current healthcare system AND Obamacare=/= Medicare.

Your turn cunt flaps

The employer pays part of your system and the Obamacare part aren't failures. They supply healthcare to millions of people. They'll continue to do so but they're still rubbish, as is the for-profit insurance system and the for-profit hospital system.

[El Kabong]

The employer pays part of your system and the Obamacare part aren't failures. They supply healthcare to millions of people. They'll continue to do so but they're still rubbish, as is the for-profit insurance system and the for-profit hospital system.

Alright so then your original statement was false then...is that what you want to go with?

[Kirkland Laing]

The employer pays part of your system and the Obamacare part aren't failures. They supply healthcare to millions of people. They'll continue to do so but they're still rubbish, as is the for-profit insurance system and the for-profit hospital system.

Alright so then your original statement was false then...is that what you want to go with?

No. The Medicare part of your system works very well. The rest of the system works really badly. It's not a failure -- a million people signed up for Obamacare this year more than did last year! -- but it's a shit system. It won't ever fail, it can continue indefinitely just being a shit system. It should all be scrapped and a medicare for all system should be set up.

Now, can you answer the questions you've been dodging.

[El Kabong]

The employer pays part of your system and the Obamacare part aren't failures. They supply healthcare to millions of people. They'll continue to do so but they're still rubbish, as is the for-profit insurance system and the for-profit hospital system.

Alright so then your original statement was false then...is that what you want to go with?

No. The Medicare part of your system works very well. The rest of the system works really badly. It's not a failure -- a million people signed up for Obamacare this year more than did last year! -- but it's a shit system. It won't ever fail, it can continue indefinitely just being a shit system. It should all be scrapped and a medicare for all system should be set up.

Now, can you answer the questions you've been dodging.

People are penalized if they don't sign up so this....

a million people signed up for Obamacare this year more than did last year!

isn't something to BE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT!!!


Medicare has worked alright BUT as with all entitlement programs when you have unfettered illegal and even legal immigration there will be a limiting of funds for future patients because those folks either haven't paid into the system for as long as they theoretically could have or they just don't pay into the system at all. Also as the population of the United States increases with age entitlements like Social Security and Medicare will feel the crunch of fewer people paying into a system that more people are making use of....that has always been the problem and will always be the problem with this kind of system.

What can be done to avoid this? Increasing the age of eligibility, increasing taxes, privatizing the system, abolishing the system and starting from scratch, younger generations have a baby boom and put them kids to work.


Obamacare was never meant to be the end game, Single Payer is the end game to which the Republicans/Conservatives/Libertarians would add on the option to upgrade your Insurance through the private sector...I think that will eventually come to pass and whether or not it will be any good is a mystery to me as anything can and will happen

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I don't think we were talking about Obamacare, or medicaid or anything like that, or the pros and cons of it's funding in a normal balanced way.

oh, wait a minute

[Kirkland Laing]

The employer pays part of your system and the Obamacare part aren't failures. They supply healthcare to millions of people. They'll continue to do so but they're still rubbish, as is the for-profit insurance system and the for-profit hospital system.

Alright so then your original statement was false then...is that what you want to go with?

No. The Medicare part of your system works very well. The rest of the system works really badly. It's not a failure -- a million people signed up for Obamacare this year more than did last year! -- but it's a shit system. It won't ever fail, it can continue indefinitely just being a shit system. It should all be scrapped and a medicare for all system should be set up.

Now, can you answer the questions you've been dodging.

People are penalized if they don't sign up so this....

a million people signed up for Obamacare this year more than did last year!

isn't something to BE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT!!!


Medicare has worked alright BUT as with all entitlement programs when you have unfettered illegal and even legal immigration there will be a limiting of funds for future patients because those folks either haven't paid into the system for as long as they theoretically could have or they just don't pay into the system at all. Also as the population of the United States increases with age entitlements like Social Security and Medicare will feel the crunch of fewer people paying into a system that more people are making use of....that has always been the problem and will always be the problem with this kind of system.

What can be done to avoid this? Increasing the age of eligibility, increasing taxes, privatizing the system, abolishing the system and starting from scratch, younger generations have a baby boom and put them kids to work.


Obamacare was never meant to be the end game, Single Payer is the end game to which the Republicans/Conservatives/Libertarians would add on the option to upgrade your Insurance through the private sector...I think that will eventually come to pass and whether or not it will be any good is a mystery to me as anything can and will happen

As usual you're completely wrong. It's not like there's a huge Medicare fund that holds forty or fifty years of your Medicare taxes and then is used to pay out for your healthcare when you retire. The money the federal government takes in this year goes immediately to pay for this year's Medicare patients. It's an insurance scheme, like your car insurance. That means the best way to fund it is to maximise the number of people currently paying into the system, which means the more immigrants the better. Also, too, the average person pays $50k in Medicare taxes over the course of their working life and then receives $150k of treatment via Medicare. So paying into a fund can't work, increasing the number of people paying this year's Medicare bill is the way to increase funding for Medicare.

Privatising the US healthcare system just puts the cost of healthcare up. The US sytem is the most privatised in the world and the most expensive.



And for that the US gets a healthcare system that ranks thirty something in the world, just behind Costa Rica's. Experience from every OECD country shows that privatisation of the system costs far more than a single payer system (that doesn't take profits, it's pretty fucking obvious really).

And you're still dodging the questions. Here they are again.

He's either full of shit or he doesn't know what he's talking about and is just repeating what somebody like Ryan told him (don't worry Don, our replacement is going to be terrific! ((but actually is a piece of shit that allows Ryan to slash taxes on the 1%)) ) or he's proposing the biggest new entitlement programme since Medicare.

If he is proposing a massive new entitlement programme do you fancy paying for it? If it's a plan that actually takes away healthcare coverage from twenty million people, the most likely scenario, how do you feel about that?