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LugNuts 26 points ago +26 / -0

And - how does the universality of a healthcare system prevent infection or prevent hospital overloads?

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someoldcoderguy 31 points ago +31 / -0

It doesn't. It is not about helping people. It is about control.

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stjimmy92 16 points ago +16 / -0

It prevents hospital overloads because they can just kick out the people they don’t think deserve to be there!

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The_Litehaus_Abides 9 points ago +9 / -0

I knew this push for universal health care was coming because they are currently in the process of bankrupting all our hospitals. Entire hospital floors empty, doctors and nurses being furloughed, etc.

We have to get them -- and everyone else -- back to work before it's too late.

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Peashout 3 points ago +4 / -1

It's too late.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 1 point ago +1 / -0

That attitude helps what, exactly?

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LugNuts 2 points ago +2 / -0

I like where you're going with this...

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Meddlesom 2 points ago +2 / -0

...and that right there is why the mortality rate in Italy was so high. They wouldn't treat the elderly.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Wouldn't? Or did they actually face their healthcare system at capacity, with no ability to treat everyone that needed it?

I would point out that they got hit hard so early that we didn't know about Trump pills, and healthcare workers had a legitimate excuse to not know that ventilators are a TERRIBLE way to treat CCPvirus, especially when you use a ventilator in the usual way.

I already knew how ventilators would be misused, and most US Drs are still making that mistake. But I think data does support the "ICU beds and ventilators" shortage that kicked off the media induced hysteria here.

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Meddlesom 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes, wouldn't. It came down to a choice, and they chose a class of people to exclude from treatment, and that was the elderly. They chose the people who were most vulnerable to it and let them die.

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HockeyMom4Trump 4 points ago +4 / -0

It does not.

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Sumarongi 3 points ago +3 / -0

No it causes it, because it ties the healthcare system to the national budget, which inevitably gets strained because of the socialism and then ‘austerity’ is required; ie. cutbacks on the services

This is exactly what happened in Italy

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LugNuts 3 points ago +3 / -0

Ding! Ding! Ding!

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RocketSurgeon22 2 points ago +2 / -0

They don't but they do look for off-label solutions. Something US Healthcare industry avoids. That's the only highlight I can think of and it isn't directly tied to social medicine. We have a big pharma mafia that needs to be plowed.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 2 points ago +2 / -0

"Swimmin with the fishes" is an approved mafia term. Whacked. Offd. Wearing cement shoes. "Let's take a little ride" even has the same connotation.

Getting plowed has a rather different meaning, or at least it used to lol