Alan Grayson Tells it Like It Is: Stop Republican Lies on Healthcare in America

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“Other countries negotiate very aggressively with the providers and set rates that are much lower than we do,” Anderson says. They do this in one of two ways. In countries such as Canada and Britain, prices are set by the government. In others, such as Germany and Japan, they’re set by providers and insurers sitting in a room and coming to an agreement, with the government stepping in to set prices if they fail.

Freedom is not free either. Let these countries fend for themselves, most have US Military bases in them, pull out of them and remove the resources that the US provides to these countries to help protect them. Reallocate our resources from helping to defend them, so that we can spend more on healthcare on our own people in the US. The US left the Philippines base in Manilla, and they are just fine without us. So we should look to pull back from other countries and states. How many British, Canadian, German, and Japanses bases are in the United States, barring embassy's? It is time to use our own funds to take care of our own issues.

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It is time to use our own funds to take care of our own issues.

It would also help to quit letting the industry write the legislation:

In the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, for instance, Congress expressly barred Medicare from negotiating the prices of drugs that it was paying for

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yeah.. god forbid we help one another

We already pay for non producers health care. Having the government more involved will probably work out just fine. I mean education, energy, debt, welfare, medicare, USPS have all been very successful...oops

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yeah.. god forbid we help one another

We already pay for non producers health care. Having the government more involved will probably work out just fine. I mean education, energy, debt, welfare, medicare, USPS have all been very successful...oops

You are sooo right...........medicare is soooo much more efficient, it has an overhead of just 2 % vs private insurance company overheads of 33%............money that is not actually used for healthcare.