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Re:How the Government Ruined US Healthcare – And What Can Be... by frgtpsswrdlame on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:06PM (#13950901)
Hearing the perspectives of all sides is only useful when they're honest. Any article which talks about Nixon's effects on healthcare and laws passed in 1972 and 1974 but skips right over the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 is not being honest.
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Re:How the Government Ruined US Healthcare – And What Can Be... by ancap on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:18PM (#13950993)
The article never claimed to provide an exhaustive list of all healthcare related laws and their affects. In exactly what way does omitting that law weaken their argument?
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Re:How the Government Ruined US Healthcare – And What Can Be... by frgtpsswrdlame on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:09PM (#13951398)
I don't expect an exhaustive list, but saying that Nixon's laws in 72 and 74 made our current state of healthcare while ignoring the 73 law is a glaring omission. Considering it allowed the rise of for-profit HMOs I would expect a decent article to at least address/dismiss the concern that maybe this law is part of the reason our prices have gone up so much.
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