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Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by X86BSD on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:29PM (#12307068)
Yeah I'm not buying this and never have. You're going to need to cite some kind of scientific statistics or stats or studies.

When people get sick they come to the US for treatment if they can. You don't see world leaders and those with money going to Canada or Europe for treatment. Not when it's dire. The US is hella expensive for many reasons one is that we have the most bleeding edge medical technology.

Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by danielweber on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:32PM (#12307107)
> You're going to need to cite some kind of scientific statistics or stats or studies.

There are plenty of studies that support his position.

But there are also lots of studies that oppose his position.

And everyone will listen to the studies that support their prior viewpoint and say that the others are bunk.

You could have a good debate about health care if everyone gave up their priors, was willing to listen to opposing evidence, and was willing to accept their preferred system has real honest-to-God not-said-sarcastically tradeoffs. Let us know when that happens.

Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by st3v3r on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:01PM (#12308431)
David Beckham tore his ACL, and despite playing for Los Angeles at the time, went to Finland for his surgery.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/8567353.stm

Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by lenkite on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:38AM (#12310609)
> When people get sick they come to the US for treatment if they can

I live in Bangalore, India. My local private clinics are filled with American citizens. Medical tourism is all the rage here.

Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by njkanjsd on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:33PM (#12307115)
Here you go: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/press-releases/...

You can find other articles and studies echoing the same conclusions.

> When people get sick they come to the US for treatment if they can.

No they don't. And many Americans go to other countries for treatment because they can't afford it in the US.

> You don't see world leaders and those with money going to Canada or Europe for treatment.

'Those with money' is a tiny portion of the population, which is why I said 'most citizens' get better healthcare in other countries (developed ones).

> The US is hella expensive for many reasons one is that we have the most bleeding edge medical technology.

Not really, US has some bleeding edge medicine, not the best for every aspect of health, and the bleeding edge stuff is only available to a very tiny portion of the population.

Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by X86BSD on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:45PM (#12307239)
reading those now.
Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by X86BSD on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:51PM (#12307291)
"Now that millions more of Americans have good coverage..."

This link is full of horse poop.

Good coverage? Have you seen what the new ACA plans cover and don't cover?? And the cost??

Good is not a word I would use to describe their coverage.

They should have said "access to coverage" and it would have been more believable.

Re:Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Hu... by njkanjsd on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @03:03PM (#12307389)
So your only criticism is that you don't like the adjective they used in the summary? Neat.